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PITTSBURG —
Anyone unable to be in New York on Jan. 22, 2013, for the Carnegie Hall debut of Patrick Howle and Dr. Reena Natenberg can just attend their recital at 7:30 p.m. Monday in McCray Recital Hall.
“This recital will be the same exact selections that we’ll be playing in Carnegie Hall,” Howle said.
Both members of the PSU music faculty are excited about their Carnegie debut.
“We’ve been rehearsing and getting ready for quite a while,” Howle said.
He noted that most of the songs on the recital are taken from a collaborative CD that they will release at the end of the month.
“The CD is all songs by Francis Poulenc, a French composer,” Howle said. “We did the majority of the recording during the summer of 2011 in McCray Recital Hall, with the same piano that Reena will play in our concert. The CD is completed, and we’re just finishing up some things on the production end.”
The project was funded by grants from the Kansas Arts Commission, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
While the CD will not be available for purchase, those who wish will be able to pre-order copies at the recital.
The program will also include some songs by Brahms and piano solos by Franz Liszt and Denis Gougeon.
“The Brahms is a nice contrast to the French,” Howle said.
“The Liszt is a great Romantic showpiece that leads nicely into the Brahms,” Dr. Natenberg added.
Gougeon is a contemporary Canadian composer. Like Dr. Natenberg, he was born in Quebec.
“This will be an exciting start to the second half of the program,” she said.
Dr. Natenberg was educated at the McGill Conservatory of Music, Tel-Aviv University, the New England Conservatory of Music. She moved to the United States in 2000, and has performed as a guest artist at many university music schools throughout the country.
She has also performed concerts around the world, including China, South, Korea, Thailand and Viet Nam, including at the Hanoi Opera House, and in Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay. She has also presented master classes throughout the world.
Dr. Natenberg’s students have been prize winners of numerous competitions, and several are teaching at universities and conservatories, both in the United States and abroad. She received the 2012 Excellence in Teaching Award from the PSU College of Arts and Sciences.
Howle received a bachelor of music in vocal performance from East Carolina University and master of music in vocal performance and literature from the Eastman School of Music.
Anyone unable to be in New York on Jan. 22, 2013, for the Carnegie Hall debut of Patrick Howle and Dr. Reena Natenberg can just attend their recital at 7:30 p.m. Monday in McCray Recital Hall.
“This recital will be the same exact selections that we’ll be playing in Carnegie Hall,” Howle said.
Both members of the PSU music faculty are excited about their Carnegie debut.
“We’ve been rehearsing and getting ready for quite a while,” Howle said.
He noted that most of the songs on the recital are taken from a collaborative CD that they will release at the end of the month.
“The CD is all songs by Francis Poulenc, a French composer,” Howle said. “We did the majority of the recording during the summer of 2011 in McCray Recital Hall, with the same piano that Reena will play in our concert. The CD is completed, and we’re just finishing up some things on the production end.”
The project was funded by grants from the Kansas Arts Commission, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
While the CD will not be available for purchase, those who wish will be able to pre-order copies at the recital.
The program will also include some songs by Brahms and piano solos by Franz Liszt and Denis Gougeon.
“The Brahms is a nice contrast to the French,” Howle said.
“The Liszt is a great Romantic showpiece that leads nicely into the Brahms,” Dr. Natenberg added.
Gougeon is a contemporary Canadian composer. Like Dr. Natenberg, he was born in Quebec.
“This will be an exciting start to the second half of the program,” she said.
Dr. Natenberg was educated at the McGill Conservatory of Music, Tel-Aviv University, the New England Conservatory of Music. She moved to the United States in 2000, and has performed as a guest artist at many university music schools throughout the country.
She has also performed concerts around the world, including China, South, Korea, Thailand and Viet Nam, including at the Hanoi Opera House, and in Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay. She has also presented master classes throughout the world.
Dr. Natenberg’s students have been prize winners of numerous competitions, and several are teaching at universities and conservatories, both in the United States and abroad. She received the 2012 Excellence in Teaching Award from the PSU College of Arts and Sciences.
Howle received a bachelor of music in vocal performance from East Carolina University and master of music in vocal performance and literature from the Eastman School of Music.
He has directed numerous PSU opera productions, and has been able to maintain his own performance career in opera, operetta, musical theater and solo recital performances.
Howle sang in more than 30 productions with the Ohio Light Opera, where he created the role of “Marat” in the world premier of Robert Ward’s “A Friend of Napoleon” and “Wickham” in a new musical adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.” Howle’s recordings with the Ohio Light Opera can be heard on both the Albany and Operetta Archives labels.
He spent three summer seasons with Light Opera of Oklahoma and more recently sang the role of Eisenstein in “Die Fledermaus” with Greenville Light Opera Works, Greenville, S.C.
The duo recital will be open free to the entire community. The Natenberg-Howle Carnegie Fund has been established to help cover expenses of their debut. Those who wish to make contributions should make checks payable to the PSU music department, with the name of the fund in the memo line.
