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Dallas pro musica
Saturday, 31 May at 7pm
The Dallas Pro
Musica is dedicated to the re-creation and
realization of vocal music from the Medieval,
Renaissance and Early Baroque periods, with
occasional forays into the 20th and
21st centuries. The ensemble, based
at UT Dallas, consists of faculty members
Kathryn Evans, soprano, Mary Medrick,
mezzo-soprano, and Hoyt Neal, tenor, with
Michael Borts, bass. UT Dallas student graduate
Rebecca Mitchell, alto, will appear as a guest
artist.
The evening’s
program will include selections from their two
programs: “The Italian Way,” based on the
secular vocal works of the Italian Renaissance,
and “Basically British,” works from the masters
of the English madrigal. The featured works are
by such noted Italian composers as Luca Marenzio,
Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa, Magister Piero,
Francesco Landini, Pomponio Nenna and Giovanni
Domenico Da Nola, Claudio Monteverdi; and
English composers Thomas Morley, Henry Purcell,
John Wilbye, Thomas Vautor, and John Bennet; and
the infamous P.D.Q. Bach.
Kathryn Evans, Associate Dean for
the Arts in the School of Arts and Humanities at
The University of Texas at Dallas, teaches vocal
and choral music and directs the UT Chamber
Singers. She has performed in Switzerland,
Germany, France, Italy, and most recently
returned from performances in Latin America.
Mary Medrick, active as a music director,
conductor and keyboardist, has toured 17
countries and arranges commercial music
frequently. At UTD she teaches piano,
theory and musical theatre. Hoyt Neal has
been a tenor soloist in numerous venues
throughout the area. Having studied in the
DMA programme at UNT, some of his singing or
conducting credits include Elijah, Messiah,
Faure's Requiem and Britten's
Rejoice in the Lamb and Hymn to St
Cecilia. Michael Borts has performed
the national anthems of the USA, Canada and
Mexico over 600 times since 1978 for 20
professional and collegiate sports teams.
Fox Sports Network Hockey announcer Ralph
Strangis used the term "stirring" to describe
Borts' anthem performances, and talk show host
Mike Rhyner commented that he wished "all
national antehms could be performed the way
Michael Borts performs them." Rebecca
Mitchell, a freshman at UTD and a member of the
UTD Chamber Singers, graduated with honors from
Plano Senior High School. In 2007, she
earned a place in the TMEA Texas All State
Women's Choir and is currently studying Art and
Performance at UTD.
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