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Mount Desert Summer Chorale
2006 soloists
Featured soloist
Carole FitzPatrick, soprano |
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Soprano Carole FitzPatrick received her Bachelor's degree from the University of Texas and
two Master's degrees from Yale. In 1988, she went to Europe to pursue a full-time career
in singing. After engagements in Dortmund and Osnabrück, Germany, she joined the ensemble
of the State Theater in Nuremberg. Her extensive opera repertoire includes Mozart, Verdi,
Puccini, Strauss and Wagner, having sung over 50 major roles in German opera houses, including
Hannover, Mannheim, Duesseldorf and
Berlin, her concert work has been extensive as well, including the Brahms, Mozart, Dvorak,
Fauré and Verdi Requiems, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, and Handel's Messiah, Israel in Egypt
and Judas Maccabeus. Ms. FitzPatrick has also done concert tours in France and Spain.
Recently she sang the "Four Last Songs" of Richard Strauss in Mainz and Bielefeld, and Beethoven's
9th Symphony in Moscow under Vladimir Fedosseyev, as well as Cosí fan tutte, Elektra and Lohengrin
in Essen and Ariadne auf Naxos in Graz, Austria. Last season in Nuremberg she sang "Leonora" in both
La Forza del Destino and Il Trovatore, "Madame Lidoine" in Dialogues des Carmélites, the title role in
Iphigénie en Tauride, and "Gutrune" in Götterdämmerung, as well as two performances of the
Verdi Requiem.
Since its inception, Ms. FitzPatrick has been a vocal advisor for the Nuremberg State Theater's Opera
Studio for Young Singers, giving both master classes and private voice lessons to the participants.
A number of her voice students are now actively working in the German opera system.
In fall 2005, Ms. FitzPatrick joined the voice faculty at Arizona State University. She joins the
Mount Desert Summer Chorale for its performance of the Mozart Requiem, and she will be featured in
solo works with the orchestra in the concert.
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Brianna Kramer, mezzo-soprano |
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Originally from Lacey, Washington, Brianna Kramer received her Bachelor of Music degree from Washington State University.
In 2005 Brianna graduated from Arizona State University with a Master of Music degree in Opera/Music Theater performance
and is currently pursuing her Doctorate at Arizona State University.
Brianna has appeared in a variety of roles including
Baba in The Medium, Mauyra in Riders to the Sea, Bianca in The Rape of Lucretia, Marcellina in The Marriage of Figaro,
Mrs Mclean in Susannah, Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors, Madame de Croissy in Dialogues of the Carmelites, Martha in
The Secret Garden, and Aunt Eller in Oklahoma. Brianna has also had the privilege to have participated in many recitals and
opera scenes where she portrayed the roles of Jacks mother in Into the Woods, Ramiro in La Finta Giardiniera, Carmen in Carmen,
and Azucena in Il Travatore.
In 2005 Brianna had the honor of being the Alto soloist for the Bach B-Minor Mass when performed
by Arizona State University. Brianna is very excited to join the Mount Desert Summer Chorale for its performance of the Mozart
Requiem.
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Sean Clark, tenor |
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Sean Clark is a second year masters student at Arizona State University studying with David Britton.
While working on his undergraduate degree at Ithaca College, Sean performed and understudied roles in
Cosi fan tutte, Die Fledermaus, Dialogues of the Carmelites, A Hand of Bridge, The Magic Flute, Three
Penny Opera, Parade and L'Incoronazione di Poppea. In the summer of 2003, Sean was a member of the vocal
cast at College Light Opera Company and performed roles in The Gondoliers, Trial by Jury, Sweeney Todd and
Guys and Dolls. With the Lyric Opera Theatre at ASU, Sean has been seen as the Male Chorus in the Rape of
Lucretia, Billy Crocker in Anything Goes, King Kaspar in Amahl and the Night Visitors, and
the Chevalier in Dialogues of the Carmelites.
In addition to his work with the Mount Desert Summer
Chorale, Sean will be performing at Quisisana on Lake Kezar in Western Maine.
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Donald Wilkinson, baritone |
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Baritone Donald Wilkinson enjoys
a distinguished career in concert, opera, oratorio, recital and
contemporary music, and has appeared throughout the United States
and Canada.
In 1995 he made his European debut performing the role
of Dionysos in the World premiere of Theodore Antoniou’s
opera, The Bacchae, at the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. Since that
debut he has appeared in Germany (Kassel), France (Paris, Strasbourg,
Saintes, Clisson, Ribeauvillé), and Holland (Utrecht). Mr.
Wilkinson has performed as soloist with Seiji Ozawa and the Boston
Symphony Orchestra, Christopher Hogwood and the Handel and Haydn
Society (a U.S. tour of Bach’s Missa
Brevis in G Minor) and
the symphony orchestras of Pittsburgh, Jacksonville, Springfield
(MA), Portland (ME), and Vermont. Since 1984 he has been a soloist
in Emmanuel Music’s famed Bach Cantata
Series under the direction
of Craig Smith.
Highly sought after for his interpretations of
Bach, in 2003 he made his debut at the Northwest Bach Festival
(Spokane) in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and Mozart’s
Requiem under the direction of Gunther Schuller. He has also appeared
at the Bach Festivals of Carmel and Philadelphia, and is featured
on Emmanuel Music’s recordings (Koch International Classics)
of Bach’s Christmas Cantatas, St.
John Passion (1725 version)
and Cantatas for the 1st and 2nd Sundays
after Trinity. His Discography
also includes the title role on the internationally acclaimed Johnny
Johnson by Kurt Weill on Erato Disques, Angels with the Boston
Camerata (Erato), John Harbison’s Recordare on Koch International
Classics, David Patterson’s song cycle Last
Words on Albany
Records and the recently released The Jesuit
Operas with Ensemble
Abendmusik on Dorian Recordings. In 1990 he was awarded a fellowship
to Tanglewood.
Mr. Wilkinson teaches voice at Phillips Academy
Andover and maintains a private studio at his residence in Nahant, MA.
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