Editor's note: This recital has been canceled due to an illness.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penn State's Guest Recital Series will present faculty members from Gettysburg College's Sunderman Conservatory in a free performance at 5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 8, in Esber Recital Hall. Soprano Stacey Mastrian will be joined by pianist Scott Crowne in a concert titled "Post-Puccini Italian Vocal Music."
Program
Il porcellino di Pino (from Giro giro tondo) -- Virgilio Mortari
Tanto gentile e tanto onesta pare la donna mia (from Quattro Sonetti da “La Vita Nova”) -- Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Er coccodrillo (from Quattro favole romanesche di Trilussa) -- Alfredo Casella
Cancheri e beccaficchi (from Due sonetti del Berni) -- Gian Francesco Malipiero
Arbero peccerillo... (from Quattro canti antichi napoletani) -- Giorgio Federico Ghedini
Colombetta: Serenatella Veneziana -- Arturo Buzzi-Peccia
Ayer soñé que veía (from Quattro Liriche di Antonio Machado) -- Luigi Dallapiccola
Sérénade (from Liriche su Verlaine) -- Bruno Maderna
from Sette favole e allegorie -- Roberto Lupi
L’ostrica il ratto e la gatta Allegrezza La formica e il chicco di grano
Sequenza III per voce femminile -- Luciano Berio
La fabbrica illuminata (per soprano e nastro magnetico) -- Luigi Nono
Stacey Mastrian, described by the Washington Post as a “sweet, shimmering soprano,” performs repertoire that spans from the late Renaissance to the Stacey Mastrianpresent. The 2011 season marked her debut at Teatro La Fenice in Venice, performing Luigi Nono's Intolleranza 1960 for a production mounted for the 50th anniversary of the premiere. During the 2009-10 season, she served as a Young Artist with Opera Lafayette, and performed with that company at the Terrace and Eisenhower Theaters at the Kennedy Center, Rose Hall-Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Smithsonian Institution, the Music Centre at Strathmore and on a world-premiere recording released on the NAXOS label. In the role of Gilda (Rigoletto) with the Summer Opera Theatre Company, the Washington Times lauded her “exquisitely etched performance, unveiling delicate, silvery tones and pinpoint accuracy.” Other operatic roles range from Amor/Damigella (L’incoronazione di Poppea) to Sidonie, Bergère and Lucinde (Gluck's Armide), the Dew Fairy (Hansel und Gretel), and Sister Genevieve (Suor Angelica). Operetta experience includes Adele (Die Fledermaus), the title role in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience, and Mabel (The Pirates of Penzance), which she performed 30 times in 2008 and 2010 with the Washington Savoyards to critical and popular acclaim.
Mastrian received Fulbright and Beebe scholarships for study in Italy and has been awarded prizes from the American Bach Society/Bethlehem Bach Choir, International Joseph Traxel Society, Maryland Opera Society, Mu Phi Epsilon, National Association of Teachers of Singing, National Italian American Foundation, Rosa Ponselle Foundation, Shoshana Foundation and Vocal Arts DC. As the 2013 soloist winner of the Respighi Prize Music Competition, she will make her debut with the Chamber Orchestra of New York in New York City in 2014. She received her bachelor's degree in vocal performance from Catholic University, and her master's and doctoral degrees in performance from the University of Maryland.
Pianist Scott Crowne enjoys an active career in the Mid-Atlantic region as a performer, coach, teacher and conductor. He is the full-time collaborative pianist and vocal coach of the Sunderman Conservatory at Gettysburg College, where he also teaches aural skills and vocal diction courses.
Crowne currently serves as principal conductor and music director of the Hub Opera Ensemble, where he conducts full productions with orchestral accompaniment in the Hagerstown, Md., area. He has worked for the Middlebury German for Singers Program, the University of Miami Festival in Salzburg, the Washington National Opera's Family Opera and Opera Institute, the voice department of Towson University, the Aspen Music Festival, and the Brevard Music Center.
He received his bachelor's degree at Catholic University where studied piano and composition. His graduate degrees are from the University of Maryland, where he performed in numerous concerts and recitals as a vocal accompanist, chamber musician, continuo artist and orchestral pianist. He spent three years as a répétiteur with the Maryland Opera Studio, assisting with the preparation and performance of operas and opera scenes. In addition to his love of performance, he is also an inquisitive researcher. He enjoys searching out unusual and interesting music to enrich the standard recital repertoire. His particular interests are in the music of Herbert Howells, British and French art song of the early 20th century, and impressionist music.