Lenny’s Living Legacy
Leonard Bernstein A Concert Celebration of
Kathlene Ritch, Soprano
Known for her “powerful, crystalclear voice,” Kathlene Ritch has sung with such noted ensembles as the New York Philharmonic, London Sinfonietta, and the Vienna Philharmonic. She made her solo debut at Lincoln Center with the American Symphony Orchestra in Listz’s Dante’s Inferno. With that same ensemble, she recorded a live concert version of Die ägyptische Helena as Hermione opposite Deborah Voigt’s Helen.
Kathlene’s true passion, musical theater, has been a lifelong pursuit. Two of her career highlights were performing Sweeney Todd at Lincoln Center with George Hearn, Patti Lupone and Neil Patrick Harris, and Carousel at Carnegie Hall with Audra McDonald and Hugh Jackman.
Kathlene lives in Santa Fe and is a professor of voice at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design, as well as an on-air announcer for Classical 95.5 KHFM Santa Fe/ Albuquerque. She also enjoys singing with the Santa Fe Desert Chorale and the Grammy® Awardwinning ensemble, Conspirare.
Tychiko Cox, Baritone
Tychiko Cox; a classically trained vocalist from The Bahamas has been praised for his brilliant versatility, charming audiences with his ‘warm lyrical tone’. Ty received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Vocal Performance from The College of St. Benedict/St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota and then went on to pursue a Masters of Music Degree from The University of New Mexico, where he was the Graduate Teaching Assistant for two years. Ty held principal and supporting roles in The Harrower Opera Workshop in Atlanta, Georgia and The FIO Americas Opera Workshop in Brazil. In 2013, Ty became nationally recognized as one of The Bahamas’ leading young people under 40 years of age for his contributions to classical music during the celebration of the country’s 40th Anniversary of Independence. Ty also appeared as the Baritone Soloist for the New Mexico Philharmonic’s production of Handel’s Messiah in 2017. Ty is a former teacher of Applied Voice, Performance and Language Diction at the New Mexico School for the Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Additionally, Ty has recently formed a nonprofit organization, Stile Music Initiative, which has been created to allow young college students the opportunity to perform in house settings throughout the city of Albuquerque.
Barbara Bogatin, Cello
Barbara Bogatin has been a member of the San Francisco Symphony since 1994. Before joining the orchestra, her varied career included playing with New York Chamber Soloists, the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera, Aston Magna Baroque Festival, Connecticut Early Music Festival, Casals Festival, and as principal cellist with Milwaukee and New Jersey Symphony Orchestras. She has played with Chamber Music Northwest, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Tiburon Chamber Players, Lake Tahoe Summerfest, The Amati Trio, and the Sunrise String Quartet. She received Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Juilliard School.
Along with her husband, neuroscientist Clifford Saron, Barbara has led workshops on meditation and music practice at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, the Esalen Institute, Stanford Symposium for Music and the Brain, Telluride Compassion Festival and the Institute for Mindfulness South Africa Conference.
Grisha Krivchenia, Piano
Grisha Krivchenia is a composer and pianist who divides his time between Santa Fe, the Seattle area, and concert dates throughout North America. Recent premieres of his work took place in Seattle, Los Angeles and Bucharest.
Grisha completed his studies at Oberlin Conservatory, where he studied piano with Sedmara Rutstein and composition with Jeffrey Mumford. In 2007, Grisha founded the music program at Spring Street International School in Friday Harbor, Washington. His solo piano and chamber music is published by Abundant Silence Publishing.
Grisha takes a special interest in using art to amplify voices that might otherwise go unheard. He writes music in collaboration with hospice patients and recently completed a song cycle based on interviews with Syrian refugees living in Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey.
Charlie Harmon, Author
Charlie Harmon is a music editor and arranger. Sometimes he puts in hours as an orchestra librarian, most recently at the New York Philharmonic, where he is treated like royalty. They still seem to think that when he walks into the hall, Leonard Bernstein must be right behind. He has also worked on special projects in the libraries of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, and The Royal Opera, Covent Garden. For the estate of Leonard Bernstein, he edited full scores of West Side Story and Candide, and piano-vocal scores of On the Town and Wonderful Town, among many other works by Leonard Bernstein. (There are errata lists; nobody’s perfect.) As a freelancer, he has edited works by John Adams, Stephen Sondheim, and Christopher Rouse. He assisted Lorin Maazel through the editing and rehearsals of his opera, 1984, based on the George Orwell novel. He catalogued the archive now known as the Leonard Bernstein Collection in the Music Division of the Library of Congress. He has written program notes and liner notes for recordings, but this memoir is his first book. In words, that is. Words are far more complicated than music. After many years in New York, he now lives in Florida.