Upcoming recitals!
Mary will present a solo recital with pianist Matthew Odell THIS weekend!
Friday Nov. 18 7:30pm at the Bethany Church in Monpelier, VT
Sunday Nov. 20 4pm at Faulkner Recital Hall at Darmouth College in Hanover, NH
See schedule for more details!
Welcome!
Mary Bonhag, soprano made her Carnegie Hall solo debut in 2009 singing in David T. Little’s new chamber opera Dog Days. She is an avid supporter of new music and has worked closely with numerous composers to premier new works, most recently and frequently with Michigan-based composer Curtis Curtis-Smith. In 2007, she created the role of “Eve” for the Pine Mountain Music Festival premiere of The Diaries of Adam and Eve, a new chamber opera by Evan Premo. The festival reprised the opera in 2010.
Mary has a deep-rooted love of chamber music and recital repertoire and has performed as part of the Fontana Chamber Arts Festival of Kalamazoo, MI, the Maui Classical Music Festival, Strings in the Mountains, Cactus Pear Music Festival, the Lancaster Music Festival, Yellow Barn, and SongFest as a full-scholarship Stern Fellow, among others. She is equally at home on the concert and operatic stages, having sung in Italy, Germany, South Africa, Hawai’i, and much of the continental U.S. She has soloed with the American Symphony Orchestra, Berkshire Bach Society, Lehigh University Orchestra, Superior Chamber Orchestra, and Keewenaw Symphony Orchestra.
Mary is a member of Duo Borealis with her husband, double bassist/composer Evan Premo. Both are artistic directors of Scrag Mountain Music, a chamber music series in central Vermont. After studying at the University of Michigan, she earned her Master’s degree at Dawn Upshaw’s graduate vocal program at Bard College, winning concerto competitions at both institutions. She currently lives in Vermont where she teaches as Johnson State College.
Artistic Director of new Chamber Music venture!
Last January, Mary and her husband, double bassist/composer Evan Premo, held their first concerts of SCRAG MOUNTAIN MUSIC in central Vermont. This innovative series brings together wold-class musicians and audience members to experience chamber music in a deep and meaningful way. Check it out: http://www.scragmountainmusic.org
Mary to participate in another Yellow Barn Residency!
Mary was recently chosen along with double bassist Evan Premo, flutist Erin Lesser, percussionist Greg Beyer, and harpsist Jacqui Kerrod, to bring George Crumb's Madrigals. They will be exploring all four books in great detail with Lorca scholar Christopher Maurer, soprano Susan Narucki, and videographer Bart Woodstrup. Visit: http://www.yellowbarn.org/kafka-residency for more information.
