Mezzo-soprano Jennifer Lane is recognized internationally for her stunning
interpretations of repertoire ranging from the early baroque to that of today's
composers. She has appeared at festivals worldwide, with conductors Michael
Tilson-Thomas, Mstislav Rostropovich, William Christie, Nicholas McGegan, Andrew
Parrott, Marc Minkowski, Helmut Rilling, and Robert Shaw, among others.
Jennifer has performed in opera and concert with the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence,
Tanglewood Festival, Boston Early Music Festival, the New Getty Center, the
Frick Collection in New York, Cite la Musique in Paris, Opernhaus Halle,
Opernhaus Dessau, Utah Opera, Opera du Caen, Salzburger Bachgesellschaft,
Seattle Baroque Orchestra, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Tafelmusik, Handel &
Hayden Society, Les Arts Florissants, Le Parlement de Musique, Les Musiciens du
Louvre, Jerusalem Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Orchestra
della Toscana, and the New York City Opera, where she has performed over twenty
roles, including the role of Amastre in NYCO's acclaimed production of Handel's
Xerxes, directed by Stephen Wadsworth and voted "opera production of the year"
by USA Today.
She is a frequent guest of the Groningen Haendel Festival, appearing with
conductor Nicholas McGegan in Ariodante, which was recorded on harmonia mundi
usa and won a Gramophone Award, Arianna, and Giustino, which was also recorded
on harmonia mundi. She created the title role in Augusta Read Thomas's opera
Ligeia, based on the life of Edgar Allen Poe. Ligeia was commissioned and
conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich at his own festival, in Evian, France.
Jennifer has toured the dual roles of Dido and the Sorceress in the Mark Morris
Dance Group's production of Dido & Aneas, as well as performing them in the film
produced for BRAVO television by Rhombus Media and recorded on CD by CBC Records.
The film has won many awards, including the Banff Television Festival and the
San Francisco International Film Festival.
1999 was Jennifer Lane's debut season with the Metropolitan Opera, in
productions of Schoenberg's Moses und Aron and Janacek's Katya Kabanova. She was
recently presented by the Capella Cracoviensis in Cracow, Poland in a recital of
American songs and in Bach's Mattheuspassion. She was invited to perform Dido
and the Sorceress with Capella Ministrers at the Palau de la Musica in Valencia,
Spain, having previously appeared as the Sorceress with Nigel Rogers in the
Palau de la Musica in Barcelona. She recently joined the San Francisco Opera
Company, covering the role of Anne in Christopher Alden's production of Gertrude
Stein and Virgil Thomson's The Mother of US All.
Jennifer Lane has over three dozen recordings on harmonia mundi usa, Naxos, Opus
111, CBC Records, Koch International, Newport Classic, Arabesque, Centaur, and
PGM. Her most recent releases include the solo disc The Pleasures & Follies of
Love, Schoenberg's Gurrelieder (Waldtaube) and Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex (Jocasta).
Jennifer Lane has taught master classes at Old Dominion University, Mannes
College, CW Post University, Royal Academy of Music in London, San Francisco
Conservatory, and for the San Francisco Opera Young Artists Program. In the
summer, Ms. Lane teaches at the Amherst Early Music Festival, the San Francisco
Early Music Society (SFEMS) Workshops, the International Baroque Institute at
Longy, and the Lake Placid Institute Vocal Seminars.
In September,1996, Jennifer Lane joined the faculty of music at Stanford
University, where she has produced and directed several operatic productions,
including a period-style production of Dido & Aeneas, mounted as the culminating
event in the Music Department's 50th anniversary celebration, an evening of
mostly 20th century one act operas, and, most recently, Mozart's The Magic Flute.
David Tayler received his B.A. in music and interdisciplinary studies from
Hunter College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in musicology from the University of
California at Berkeley, where he studied performance practice with Philip Brett
and Alan Curtis and musicology with Joseph Kerman, Richard Crocker and Daniel
Heartz.
He is a member of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Director of the Bay Area
Collegium Musicum and Ensemble Pandore. David has appeared with American Bach
Soloists, Tafelmusik, the San Francisco Opera & Symphony, the Dallas Bach
Society, the Oregon Bach Festival and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, among
others, and has recorded over fifty discs for BIS, harmonia mundi USA, Koch
International, ORF, Sony, Reference, Arabesque, BMG, RCA, Musica Omnia and
Teldec.
As a specialist in the art song of the early seventeenth century he has
performed in lute song recitals throughout Europe and the United States; he is
Guest Conductor at the San Francisco Early Music Society Renaissance Workshop.
Hanneke van Proosdij studied harpsichord and organ with Jacques Ogg at the Royal
Conservatory in The Hague, the Netherlands, where she also studied recorder and
composition. She received her DM (teaching diploma) in 1992 and UM (solo diploma)
in 1995. She performs with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, the American Bach
Soloists, Magnificat, Parnassus Ave, Chanticleer, Orinda and Farallon Recorder
Quartet. Festival appearances include the Berkeley Early Music Festival,
Internationale Handel Festpiele Gronigen, Amherst Early Music Festival,
Festival d'Ambronnay, Wratislavia Cantans, Contemporary Improvised Music
Festival and the American Bach Soloists SummerFest. Hanneke is the Director of
the San Francisco Early Music Society Medieval Renaissance Summer Festival.
Proosdij also performs with the Farallon Recorder Quartet as
well as having her own solo recording.
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