SFCM Orchestra with Edwin Outwater
Orchestra
Featuring famous works by Stravinsky and Strauss this concert also features the world premiere and SFCM commission of a new arrangement by Carlos Simon of John Coltrane's "Alabama," featuring Jason Hainsworth, Executive Director of SFCM's Roots, Jazz, and American Music department, on tenor saxophone. This concert also features SFCM concerto competition winner and Houston Grand Opera Studio Artist Alissa Goretsky.
Program
Richard Strauss: Don Juan
Richard Strauss: Vier Lieder, Op. 27
I. Ruhe, meine Seele!
II. Cäcilie
III. Heimliche Aufforderung
IV. Morgen!
Alissa Goretsky, soprano
John Coltrane, arr. Carlos Simon: Alabama
Igor Stravinsky: Petrushka (1947 version)
Artists
A native of Los Angeles, Alissa Goretsky was the 2024 Third Place Winner in the Houston Grand Opera's Concert of Arias and is currently a Butler Studio Artist with The Houston Grand Opera. She was also a San Francisco District Winner in the Metropolitan Opera Laffont competition and moved on to the second round of the competition in Los Angeles, where she received the Special Encouragement Award. In 2022, Ms. Goretsky took First Place in the Palm Spring Opera Guild competition and in 2023 she was the winner of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Concerto Competition.
Ms. Goretsky made her operatic debut in 2019 as Gismonda in Handel's Ottone under the baton of Maestro Corey Jameson. Most recently, she sang the roles of Foreign Woman in Menotti's The Consul directed by Patricia Racette, Ma Zegner in Missy Mazzoli's Opera Proving Up, directed by Elkhana Pulitzer and Conducted by Stephen Osgood, Mimì in Puccini's La Boheme, Contessa in The Marriage of Figaro, Emilia in Handle's Flavio and covered the role of Sister Alice and Sister Catherine in Dialogue of the Carmelites with the San Francisco Opera in their Centennial season.
Ms. Goretsky holds both a Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she was under the tutelage of Voice Instructor Cesar Ulloa.
Future engagements for Ms. Goretsky include the Houston Grand Opera Butler Studio Showcase as well as her role and house debut as Clorinda in Houston Grand Opera’s upcoming production of Rossini’s La Cenerentola.
Edwin Outwater, conductor
SFCM Orchestra
Edwin Outwater
About the SFCM Orchestra
As a member of the SFCM Orchestra, you’ll experience firsthand the advantages of playing in a large ensemble. You’ll also get a complete overview of orchestral repertoire, and that begins with examining both masterworks and lesser-known pieces of every era. The symphony orchestra has a large repertoire, and each stylistic period deserves attention. Do you take to the classical period works of Mozart and Haydn? The grand romantic works of Brahms and Tchaikovsky? How about the 20th-century masterpieces by Aaron Copland and Benjamin Britten? Add to that more recent works by such luminaries as John Adams and Joan Tower, and collaborations with Opera Theatre, and you’re on your way to becoming the well-rounded, informed musician the performing world expects.
The SFCM Orchestra presents several performances a year that prominently feature student soloists. Participation also includes public orchestral workshops with distinguished guest conductors. Recent guests have included Donald Runnicles, Carl St. Clair, Nicola Luisotti, and Peter Oundjian.
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