Mezzo-Soprano Shakèd Bar and Baritone Dominik Belavy to Give Juilliard’s Vocal Arts Honors Recital on Thursday, March 21, 2019, at 7:30pm in Alice Tully Hall

Program Includes Schubert Songs and Israeli Folk and Art Songs

NEW YORK –– Juilliard mezzo-soprano Shakèd Bar and baritone Dominik Belavy are the winners of the Juilliard Vocal Arts Honors Recital for 2018-19 and will appear in a free joint recital on Thursday, March 21, 2019, at 7:30pm in Alice Tully Hall. Juilliard collaborative pianist Richard Fu will accompany Belavy, and Bronwyn Schuman will accompany Bar.

Free tickets are available at the Juilliard and Alice Tully Hall box offices. Online tickets are not available for this concert.

The two singers were nominated by their voice teachers to audition for this recital opportunity. The auditions were judged by a distinguished panel that included Metropolitan Opera assistant conductor Howard Watkins, noted soprano and Juilliard alumna Susanna Phillips (MM ’04; BM ’03), and artistic consultant to the Met Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program and bass Matthew Rose.

Dominik Belavy opens the program with Schubert songs. Shakèd Bar is presenting a program called “100 Years of Israeli Music–Between Folk Song and Art Song”, which includes a world premiere, Be’ad Ha’eshnav, that was commissioned by Juilliard for this occasion by Israeli composer Noa Haran. (The complete program follows at the end of this press release.)

Bar, who is a master of music student, studying with Edith Bers, recently sang the role of Fillide in Handel’s Aminta e Fillide with William Christie and Juilliard415 and was the soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah at Carnegie Hall with the Cecilia Chorus of New York this season. Belavy, a master of music candidate, studied with Sanford Sylvan. He recently made his professional debut as Jim Larkens in Michigan Opera Theatre’s production of La fanciulla del West conducted by Stephen Lord. Bar and Belavy sang the roles of Dido and Aeneas, respectively, in Juilliard Opera’s recent production.

Juilliard’s Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts was established in 2010 by the generous support of Ellen and James S. Marcus.

Meet the Artists

Jerusalem-born mezzo-soprano Shakèd Bar is a master of music student at Juilliard, where she studies with Edith Bers. She has sung Fiordiligi in Festival della Valle d’Itria’s Così fan tutte with Fabio Luisi, Poppea and Nerone in Monteverdi’s L'incoronazione di Poppea, Dido in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Zerlina in Mozart Don Giovanni, and La Grande Prêtresse and Une Chasseresse in Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie. This season, Bar sang the role of Fillide in Handel’s Aminta e Fillide with William Christie and Juilliard415, and she was the soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah at Carnegie Hall with the Cecilia Chorus of New York. She earned her bachelor’s degree from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance.

Baritone Dominik Belavy is a master of music student at Juilliard, where he studied with    Sanford Sylvan. At Juilliard, he has been in productions of Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges and Haydn’s La fedeltà premiata and covered roles in Katya Kabanova, Les mamelles de Tirésias and La finta giardiniera. With Juilliard415, he has sung Bach’s B-Minor Mass under the baton of Ton Koopman. He recently made his professional debut as Jim Larkens in Michigan Opera Theatre’s production of La fanciulla del West conducted by Stephen Lord. As a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, He has sung Ravel’s Chansons madécasses, Schoenberg’s arrangement of Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, and Junior in Bernstein’s A Quiet Place, and he has premiered works by Alan Smith and Nathan Davis.

Shanghai-born Richard Fu is studying collaborative piano at Juilliard, having previously attended Oxford University, the Royal College of Music (London), and Dartmouth College. Though he had wanted to become a lawyer growing up and began as a political science major, Fu fell in love with classical music while studying abroad in Vienna and changed focus to music. His major performances include concertos with Oxford University Philharmonia and Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra; recitals in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall, WQXR, Sheldonian Theatre, Holywell Music Room, St. John’s Smith Square, Oxford Lieder Festival; and participating in Renée Fleming’s inaugural SongStudio workshop. During the summers, Fu enjoys attending festivals and has received fellowships from Fall Island Vocal Arts Seminar, Music Academy of the West, Songfest, Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme, and Tanglewood Music Center. In 2019-20, he will perform with violinist Timothy Chooi on a 45-concert tour across the U.S.

Bronwyn Schuman is a master of music student in collaborative piano at Juilliard. In April 2018, Schuman graduated with her BM as well as a BA in English literature from Ambrose University, in her hometown of Calgary, Alberta. In addition to university education, Schuman has enjoyed participating in music festivals and summer programs, including the Franz Schubert Institut (Austria) and the Mountain View International Festival of Song and Chamber Music (Calgary). At these programs, Schuman has worked with renowned teachers and performers including Elly Ameling, Rudolf Jansen, Roger Vignoles, Wolfram Rieger, Helmut Deutsch, and Julius Drake. In 2017, Schuman held a fellowship position as operatic coach and accompanist in Maine at the Atlantic Music Festival, and in 2018, she held a fellowship position as répétiteur in Oregon at Aquilon Music Festival.

About the Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts at Juilliard

One of America’s most prestigious programs for educating singers, Juilliard’s Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts offers young artists programs tailored to their talents and needs. From bachelor and master of music degrees to an advanced Artist Diploma in Opera Studies program, Juilliard provides frequent performance opportunities, featuring singers in its own recital halls, on Lincoln Center’s stages, and around New York City. Juilliard Opera has presented numerous premieres of new operas as well as works from the standard repertoire. Juilliard graduates may be heard in opera houses and concert halls throughout the world; diverse alumni artists include well-known performers such as Leontyne Price, Renée Fleming, Risë Stevens, Tatiana Troyanos, Simon Estes, and Shirley Verrett. Recent alumni include Isabel Leonard, Susanna Phillips, Paul Appleby, Erin Morley, Sasha Cooke, and Julia Bullock.

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PROGRAM LISTING:

Juilliard Vocal Arts Honors Recital

Thursday, March 21, 2019, at 7:30pm, Alice Tully Hall

Free tickets are available at the Juilliard and Alice Tully Hall box offices.

Dominik Belavy, Baritone

Richard Fu, Piano

Shakèd Bar, Mezzo-Soprano

Bronwyn Schuman, Piano

 

Franz SCHUBERT (1797-1828)

I: Ich schaue mit Sehnen

An den Mond, D.259

Lied eines Schiffers an die Dioskuren, D.360

Des Fischers Liebesglück, D.933

An die Laute, D.905

 

II: Seufze still’, und sinne

Alinde, D.904

Nachtstück, D.672

Der Winterabend, D.938

An den Mond, D.296

 

III: Sie heist die Sehnsucht! Kennt ihr sie?

From Schwanengesang

Die Taubenpost, D.957

 

Dominik Belavy, Baritone

Richard Fu, Piano

 

100 Years of Israeli Music – Between Folk Song and Art Song

 

Moshe RAPAPORT (1903-68): Khalamti et Shirat Hazamir

 

David ZEHAVI (1910-77): From Twelve Songs of the Land

Orkha bamidbar

 

Levi SHA’AR (1933-2014): Shai

 

Tzvi AVNI (b. 1927): From Three Songs from Song of Songs

Echezu Lanu Shualim

 

Alexander “Sasha” ARGOV (1914-95): Vidui

 

Nira CHEN (1924-2006): Dodi Li

Arr: Menachem Wiesenberg (b. 1942)

 

Paul BEN-HAIM (1897-1984): Gan Na’ul

 

BEN-HAIM: Hakhnissini Tachat Knafech

 

Noa HARAN (b. 1989): Be’ad Ha’eshnav (world premiere, commissioned by The Juilliard School)

                Edat Re’iya

                Yevava

 

Aharon HARLAP (b. 1941): from Out of the depths have I cried unto Thee, O Lord

                Hallelujah

                Shiru l’Adonai Shir Chadash

 

Shakèd Bar, Mezzo-Soprano

Bronwyn Schuman, Piano