Saratoga Chamber Players to perform in special concert
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. » The Saratoga Chamber Players will hopscotch across the globe in a special upcoming concert.
The group will perform a program called the “Sweet Sound of Song” at 3 p.m. on on March 1 at the United Methodist Church, located at 175 5th Ave. in Saratoga Springs.
“Soprano Charlot t e Dobbs, bass baritone Andrew Padgett, and pianist Renana Gutman will take audience members from Dørumsgaard’s Norway to Fauré’s France, from Rachmaninoff’s Russia to John
Ireland’s England and to the United States of Barber and Williams,” a press release for the event stated. “The musicians will explore the poetry of nature through song.”
Dobbs presented song cycles with the New York Philharmonic and sang with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Alabama Symphony. She was also featured in recital at Caramoor. She gave her first performance of Schoenberg’s Second String Quartet at Marlboro which was reprised with the Saratoga Chamber Players four years ago. Born in Massachusetts, she received an M.M. from both Juilliard and Curtis and a B.A. from Yale, where she majored in English and Music.
Padgett holds a B. S. in physics (2009), an M.M. in voice (2011) from UC Santa Barbara, and an M.M. in Early Music, Oratorio, and Chamber Ensemble (2015) at Yale University’s Institute of Sacred Music. In 2013 he worked with conductor Masaaki Suzuki as the bass soloist in performances of J. S. Bach’s cantatas (BWV 106 and BWV 150) as well as Bach’s Mass in B Minor (BWV 232), which he performed on a concert tour of Japan and Singapore.
Gutman has performed across four continents as an orchestral soloist, recitalist and collaborative artist. She played at such venues as The Louvre Museum, (France), Carnegie Recital Hall, Merkin Hall (New York), St. Petersburg’s Philharmonia (Russia), Stresa Music Festival (Italy), Ravinia Rising Stars (Chicago), Jordan Hall ( Boston), Herbst Theatre (St. Francisco), Menuhin Hall (UK), UNISA (South Africa), Marlboro ( VT), and Washington National Gallery. Her performances are heard frequently on WQXR Young Artists Showcase, NY, WFMT Dame Myra Hess, Chicago, and MPR Performances Today, MN. Gutman spent summers at the Marlboro and Ravinia Music Festivals and toured with “Musicians from Marlboro.” A native of Israel, she started piano playing at the age of six and has garnered multiple awards and honors.
This concert was made possible in part by a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts and by season underwriters Joan Dickens, Susan DePaula and the E.L.M. Fund for Music.
Tickets are $25 for adults; $20 for seniors; and $15 for students. They can be purchased online at https:// www. eventbrite. com/e/ sweet- sound- of- song-tickets- 65443131167.