UPCOMING PERFORMANCES
All-Britten Voice Recital
30 October 2009, 7:30 PM UCSC Recital Hall, Santa Cruz
Join Brian Staufenbiel with guest artists Jennifer Cass, harp and Michael McGushin, piano in an all-Britten recital. Music on the program include the rarely performed Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, A Birthday Hansel and the popular Winter Words.
Tickets may be purchased in person, by phone at 831-459-2159 or online at santacruztickets.com.
http://arts.ucsc.edu/events/concerts.html
Mozart’s Requiem
20, 21 November 2009, 7:30 PM and 22 November 2:00 PM
Prélude Musique one half hour before each performances.
Nicole Paiement conducts the UCSC Orchestra and Vocal Ensembles.
Income for this concert will benefit the Music Department Scholarship fund
Tickets may be purchased in person, by phone at 831-459-2159 or online at santacruztickets.com.
http://arts.ucsc.edu/events/concerts.html
Bach: Christmas Oratorio, Parts 4-6
December 5 & 6 December 2009, 8:00 PM
Bob Geary conducts the San Francisco Choral Society in this great masterwork of the Baroque Period.
http://www.sfchoral.org/index.html
Mendelssohn: Elijah
Saturday, December 13, 8 PM and Sunday, December 14, 3 PM
Fine Arts Theatre, College of Marin
Staufenbiel returns to sing with Marin Oratorio in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Felix Mendelssohn.
http://homepage.mac.com/daled99/marinoratorio/
UCSC Faculty Recital
TBA, 7:30 2010 UCSC Recital Hall, Santa Cruz
Staufenbiel joins guitarist William Coulter to perform Five Quiet Songs by John Duarte.
http://arts.ucsc.edu/events/concerts.html
Santa Cruz Chamber Player’s
Sat, March 13 at 8PM and Sunday, March 14 at 3PM 2010, Christ Lutheran Church,10707 Soquel Drive, Aptos in a performance of music by living composer Chris Pratorius.
http://www.scchamberplayers.org/index.html
Santa Cruz Baroque Festival
April 10, 2010, 8:00 PM UCSC Recital Hall
Staufenbiel joins harpsichordist Linda Burman-Hall and other guest artists in music by Monteverdi.
http://www.scbaroque.com/index.html
J.S. Bach’s Saint John’s Passion
Fri, Apr 30 , 2010, 8pm at St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church in San Francisco
Sat, May1, 2010, 8pm at First Presbyterian in Palo Alto
Sun, May 2 , 2010, 4pm at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Berkeley
Tenor Brian Staufenbiel joins the California Bach Society and a baroque ensemble of trumpets, timpani, oboes, recorders, bassoon, organ, and strings for the performances of J.S. Bach’s Saint John’s Passion.
http://www.calbach.org/index.html
Carl Orff's Carmina Burana
Sat, May 8, 2010, 8pm at Santa Cruz Civic Center
Sun, May 9 , 2010, 2pm at Santa Cruz Civic Center
Tenor Brian Staufenbiel joins the Santa Cruz County Symphony to perform his critically acclaimed interpretation of the Roasted Swan in Orff's Carmina Burana.
http://www.santacruzsymphony.org
STAUFENBIEL: DIRECTOR
Ensemble Parallele presents Alban Berg: Wozzeck
29, 30 January 2010, 8:00 PM & 31 January 2010, 2:00 PM
Yerba Center for the Arts, San Francisco (http://www.ybca.org/tickets/)
Staufenbiel will join Ensemble Parallèle to direct the California Premiere of John Rea’s reorchestration of Alban Berg’s Wozzeck. (www.ensembleparallele.org)
For ticket information: (http://www.ybca.org/tickets/)
Donezetti: L’Elisir d’amore
3, 4, 5 June 2010, 7:30 PM and 6 June, 2010 2:00 PM
Staufenbiel directs the UCSC Opera Theater in a fully staged performance of Donezetti’s L’elisir d’amore.
Tickets may be purchased in person, by phone at 831-459-2159 or online at santacruztickets.com.