The Golandsky Institute

- Sean Duggan, piano
- Natasha Farny, cello
Bach - Sonata No. 2 in D, BWV 1028
Beethoven - Sonata No. 4 in C, Op. 102 no. 1

- Thomas Bagwell, piano
- Adrienne Danrich, soprano

Ricky Ian Gordon - Daybreak in Alabama
William Grant Still - A Black Pierrot
Ricky Ian Gordon - Late Last Night
John Musto - Litany
Lowell Liebermann - Nocturne #5 (piano solo)
John Carter - Cantata

Biography

Sean Duggan

Father Sean Duggan, O.S.B.  attended Loyola University in New Orleans and received a Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance and a Master of Fine Arts degree at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He graduated summa cum laude with a Master of Arts degree in Theology from Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans and was ordained to the priesthood.

In September 1983, Father Duggan won first prize in the Johann Sebastian Bach International Competition for pianists in Washington D.C., which entitled him, among other honors, to various concerts around the country and a two-month tour of Germany. In the “Bach Year”, 1985, he gave complete performances of Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier in New Orleans, Pittsburgh and Birmingham to critical acclaim. In 1991 he participated again in the Bach Competition in Washington D.C.; this time he was one of three first-place winners, and this entitled him to another round of concert engagements and a second tour of Germany.

Throughout the year 2000, the 250th anniversary of Bach’s death, Father Duggan performed the complete cycle of Bach’s keyboard works eight times in a series of fifteen recitals entitled Bach On the Threshold of Hope.

Father Duggan is presently on the piano faculty at the State University of New York at Fredonia. He is also on the faculty of the Golandsky Institute and he continues to study with Edna Golandsky.

Natasha Farny

American cellist Natasha Farny has distinguished herself as a talent of significant versatility and experience among today's younger generation of string virtuosi. She has performed as soloist with orchestras that include the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Greeley Symphony Orchestra, the Juilliard Symphony Orchestra and New Juilliard Ensemble, and the Western New York Chamber Orchestra. Dr. Farny has given sonata recitals on Chicago Public Radio, in Leipzig's Mendelssohn Haus, and in the cities of Rochester, New York City, Bloomington, and New Haven. She has also participated in numerous music festivals including the International Musicians Seminar in Prussia Cove, England, The Banff Summer Master Classes, the Bay View Music Festival, the Artur Balsam Chamber Music Festival, the Kronberg Cello Festival, the Schleswig Holstein Festival Master Classes, and the Leipzig Internationales Kammermusikfestival.

Dr. Farny enjoys teaching all levels and has been a faculty member at summer festivals in Maine, at the Third Street Music School in New York City, and at various Boston area schools. She has given master classes at Fort Hays State University in Kansas and throughout the Boston area. Also well-seasoned as an orchestral player, Dr. Farny has played with the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra, the Spoleto Festival Opera Orchestra, and the Rhode Island Philharmonic where she sat Assistant Principal.

After pursuing undergraduate studies at the Curtis Institute of Music and Yale University, Dr. Farny earned a master of music degree at the Eastman School of Music and a doctorate of musical arts degree at the Juilliard School. A distinguished scholar in music, Dr. Farny completed a monograph of Beethoven's Cello Sonata, Op. 102, No. 1, under the supervision of renowned Beethoven scholar and writer Maynard Solomon. Primary cello teachers have included such luminaries as Orlando Cole, Stephen Doane, Joel Krosnick, and Harvey Shapiro; additionally, she has benefited from the tutelage of some of the most renowned chamber ensembles in the world, including the Juilliard String Quartet, violinist Felix Galimir, and violist Karen Tuttle. Dr. Farny joined the SUNY Fredonia faculty in 2005.

Thomas Bagwell

Called by Marilyn Horne, "A pioneer for his age," Thomas Bagwell is one of a handful of today's most active pianists in the field of song recital. His appearances as a collaborative pianist have taken him to such venues as New York's Carnegie Hall, London's Wigmore Hall, the Musikverein, the Concertgebouw, and numerous halls across the United States and Canada. Thomas Bagwell's activities as a coach and teacher have led to invitations to give masterclasses for colleges and apprentice programs in opera companies. Mr. Bagwell was an assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera for nine seasons, and has served in the same capacity for many seasons at the Washington National Opera, the Santa Fe Opera and Opera Theatre of Saint Louis.

Thomas Bagwell has partnered in recital such singers as Marilyn Horne, Susan Graham, Denyce Graves, Frederica Von Stade, Andrea Rost, Kristine Jepson, James Morris and Roberta Peters. His recital partnerships with the rising generation of singers include Elaine Alvarez, Gregory Turay, Rinat Shaham, Eric Cutler, Thomas Meglioranza and Jesse Blumberg. In the field of chamber music, Mr. Bagwell has been a participant at the Marlboro Music Festival and has performed recitals with violinists Midori and Scott St. John, with whom he made a critically acclaimed CD of works by Antonin Dvorak on the Marquis Classics label.

Thomas Bagwell has received degrees from the Mannes College of Music, the Manhattan School of Music, and has studied with Warren Jones, Graham Johnson and Edna Golandsky. After his formal studies, Mr. Bagwell pursued additional training with Elly Ameling and Rudolf Jansen at the Academie Villecroze.

As a teacher of opera and art song, Thomas Bagwell has been on the faculties of Yale University, and currently teaches at the Mannes College of Music where he has recently been asked to teach a graduate degree program in collaborative piano. He has taught masterclasses at the Santa Fe Opera, New Jersey Opera Theater, Simpson College, Portland State University, and will teach a masterclass for NATS at the Lewis and Clark College this January.

Adrienne Danrich

The voice of soprano Adrienne Danrich has been described as “fresh liquid-silver” and “meltingly tender in its high, floating vulnerability” by Opera News. La Cronaca del Wanderer describes her as “...soprano lirico spinto autentico”, “an authentic lyric spinto soprano.”  Miss Danrich made her professional debut as Pamina in Mozart’s Die Zaubeflöte with Kentucky Opera while still a part of the Artist Diploma program at University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Her vocal finesse and musicality have garnered her much success in the Mozart repertoire. Most recently she made debuts with Sarasota Opera, Opera Pacific, and Dayton Opera as the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro. She made her Lyric Opera of San Antonio debut as Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte and most recently, Ms. Danrich returned to the Dayton Opera stage as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni.

Ms. Danrich made her San Francisco Opera stage debut as Micaela in Bizet’s Carmen after having covered in two of the companies’ prior seasons as Elizabeth in the French version of Verdi’s Don Carlos and Liu in Puccini’s Turandot. She sang the role of Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus with Lyric Opera of San Antonio and with the Cincinnati Opera she performed the High Priestess in Verdi’s Aida, Anna in Verdi’s Nabucco, and Cilla in excerpts from Danielpour’s Margaret Garner.

In 2006, Ms. Danrich received a commission from Cincinnati Opera to write and perform a one woman show, This Little Light of Mine: The Stories of Marian Anderson and Leontyne Price. She performed the premiere of the show with Cincinnati Opera in 2007. In 2008, she presented the show at Antioch College, Central State University, and once again with Cincinnati Opera. Future engagements of This Little Light of Mine include Houston Grand Opera, Jackson State University and MEJ Artists Series in Palm City, Florida.

On the concert stage, Ms. Danrich has performed with the San Francisco Symphony, Bryan Symphony, St. George’s Choral Society, Dayton Philharmonic, Northern Kentucky Symphony, Fort Wayne Philharmonic, The Orchestra of St. Luke’s Outreach, Louisville Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony, Hartt Symphony, Cape Cod Symphony and Hamilton Fairfield Symphony. Ms. Danrich made her soloist debut at Carnegie Hall with the New England Symphonic Ensemble and her Alice Tully Hall debut with The Little Orchestra of New York.

Upcoming engagements include her debut at Fort Worth Opera as Sister Rose in Dead Man Walking, Azelia in Troubled Island for the William Grant Still Festival, recitals at the Golandsky Institute at Princeton University and Allen Temple in Cincinnati, OH, a concert with the American Opera Projects in New York, and a debut concert with the Laredo Philharmonic Orchestra. Ms. Danrich has also signed with the record label PS Classics and will be recording her solo debut album in late 2008.

Ms. Danrich is an alumna of Eastman School of Music and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. While still a student, she won the Concerto Competition which marked her European debut in Lisbon, Portugal as the soprano soloist in Mozart’s Requiem. Other distinctions for Ms. Danrich include Houston Grand Opera and MacAllister Awards semifinalist, Metropolitan Opera National Council competition regional finalist and the first prize at the Patricia Corbett Opera Scholarship Competition which is the highest honor for a singer at the University of Cincinnati.

Ms. Danrich has recorded Only Heaven by Ricky Ian Gordon with PS Classics, Age to Age with OCP Publications, Original Songs of Sacred Slumber and Solitude with Soli Deo Gloria Productions and A Tribute to William Warfield with the Eastman School of Music.