The Program

Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch I and II

Pre-concert Lecture at 6:45 pm by Christine Anderson

The Artists

South Korean-born American soprano Hyunah Yu first gained recognition in 1999 as a soloist in St. Matthew Passion with the New England Bach Festival.  She was a prize-winner in the 1999 Walter W. Naumburg International Competition and a finalist in the Dutch International Vocal Competition and the Concert Artist Guild International Competition in New York.  At the 2000 Marlboro Music Festival, Ms. Yu was discovered by the eminent pianist Mitsuko Uchida, who has supported and encouraged her since.  She was nominated by Uchida and awarded a Fellowship by the Borletti-Buitoni Trust in 2003, and in 2004 she made her successful New York City recital debut in 2004 at Carnegie Hall.  Other recent engagements include solo recitals at Jordan Hall in Boston, Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York.  Hyunah Yu has recorded two solo recitals for BBC Radio 3's Voices programme.  Her first CD was chosen as one of Radio 3’s Best of 2004, and her second, released in 2007, features Mozart arias and Bach cantatas recorded with the Prague Philharmonia.  Ms. Yu studied voice at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, earning a Master of Music and an Artist Diploma.  She also holds a degree in molecular biology from the University of Texas, Austin.

Hailed for his warm, expressive sound, consummate musicianship and winning way with the audience, baritone Randall Scarlata has become one of the most sought-after musical interpreters of his generation.  In recital, he has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at Alice Tully Hall, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, and concerts for the Vocal Arts Society in Washington, DC, among other venues.  He has also performed numerous opera roles including the Count in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Mercutio in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette and Maximillian in Candide.  A frequent performer of new music, Mr. Scarlata has given world premieres of works by Ned Rorem, Samuel Adler, Daron Hagen, Thea Musgrave, Lori Laitman, and Robert Capanna, among others. He has recorded for the Albany, Gasparo, CRI and Arabesque Records labels.  Randall Scarlata earned a bachelor’s degree from the Eastman School of Music and studied in Vienna on a Fulbright Grant.  He received his master’s degree at the Juilliard School as a student of Beverley Johnson and was a member of the Juilliard Opera Center.  Mr. Scarlata currently serves on the voice faculty of the School of Music at West Chester University.  For more information on Randall Scarlata visit www.randallscarlata.com.

Ken Noda has served as Musical Assistant to James Levine on the Artistic Administration of the Metropolitan Opera for many years.  A former full-time concert pianist, he studied with renowned pianist/conductor Daniel Barenboim and made his concert debut in London in 1979 with the maestro conducting the English Chamber Orchestra.  He has since performed as soloist with such conductors as Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Chailly and Rafael Kubelik; collaborated as chamber musician with James Levine (at two pianos), Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Lynn Harrell, and Nigel Kennedy; and as lieder accompanist to Kathleen Battle, Hildegard Behrens, Maria Ewing, Aprile Millo, Kurt Moll, Jessye Norman, Dawn Upshaw and Deborah Voigt.  Since 1999 he has been a participant at the Marlboro Music Festival and also teaches at the Renata Scotto Opera Academy.  He also performs chamber music and gives master classes at Juilliard, Yale, and at the Ravinia Festival/Steans Institute.