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A. Jess Shenson Recital Series | Department of Music Skip to content Skip to navigation WebAuth Login SUNetID Login Department of Music Search form Search Navigation menu Home Academic Programs Overview Undergraduate Graduate Summer Studies at Stanford Music Ensembles & Lessons Ensembles LessonsSenseEnsembles Ensemble-in-Residence: SLSQ MusicWidenessCampus Applied Music Policies PeopleSenseStaff Graduate Students Visitors Alumni News & Events Upcoming Events Past Events News Lectures and Forums Noon Concerts A. 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In wing to their recital appearances, the artists requite self-ruling masterclasses and question-and-answer sessions for Stanford students, enabling personal student and versifier interaction. The public is welcome to shepherd these masterclasses.  All Shenson recitals and masterclasses take place in Campbell Recital Hall. The Shenson Recital Series is generously funded by the Ben and A. Jess Shenson Funds at Stanford University. F A L L   2 0 1 8   John Brancy, baritone Peter Dugan, piano Program: "Armistice: The Journey Home" Sunday, October 14 at 2:30 PM ADVANCE TICKETS: GENERAL $18 | SENIORS $13 (TICKET ON-SALE DATE TBA)AT THE DOOR: GENERAL $23 | SENIOR $18 | ALL STUDENTS WITH ID AND YOUTH UNDER 13 FREE (LIMITED AVAILABILITY)   Inspired by the 100th year-end of the signing of the ceasefire that ended World War I, this program tells the story of men and women who must find their way when home, literally and figuratively. While most of the music is directly related to World War I, its themes are universal, reaching as far when as Homer’s Odyssey. “Armistice: The Journey Home” features selections from Schubert’s Der Wanderer and Vaughan Williams’ Songs of Travel, popular WWI-era tunes by Oley Speaks and Irving Berlin, and works by Gustav Holst, Pete Seeger, Rudi Stephan, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Ivor Novello. John Brancy, baritone, performs an eclectic season of new music for his 2018-19 season. Brancy is on a national tour of his critically well-known programs "A Silent Night: A WWI Memorial in Song" and "Armistice: The Journey Home" with internationally renowned pianist and collaborator Peter Dugan. This tour takes Brancy to locations such as Stanford University, West Point Academy, the Smithsonian Institute, the US Naval Academy, and the Kennedy Center, to name a few. Brancy will follow with a tour of Handel’s Messiah with performances in Victoria Symphony in Canada, the Johnstown Symphony, and a return to Carnegie Hall’s Isaac Stern stage. Brancy then makes his way to Lisbon, Portugal, for a semi-staged production of Romeo et Juliet with the Gulbenkian Orchestra and Choir conducted by Lorenzo Viotti. Additonally, Brancy will interreact then with director Yuval Sharon as a featured performer on a new production of Meredith Monk’s ATLAS, this marking Brancy’s debut with the LA Philharmonic. Brancy is moreover the co-creator of Operation Superpower, a "Superhero Opera" for children that aims to gainsay bullying through the valiance of knowing and yoyo in one's own superpower and voice. Pianist Peter Dugan’s 2017 debut solo performances with Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony were described by the Los Angeles Times as “stunning” and by the SF Chronicle as “fearlessly athletic.” Prizing versatility as the key to the future of classical music, Mr. Dugan is equally at home in classical, jazz, and pop idioms. Mr. Dugan has performed in duos and trios with artists ranging from Itzhak Perlman and Joshua Bell to Jesse Colin Young and Glenn Close. The Wall Street Journal described Mr. Dugan’s collaboration with violinist Charles Yang as a “classical-meets-rockstar duo.” Mr. Dugan’s recent chamber music recitals include the Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach, Music at Menlo, St. John’s College Recital Series, and a Weill Hall debut presented by Carnegie Hall.  His debut tome with baritone John Brancy –  "A Silent Night: A WWI Memorial in Song" – pays homage to composers who lived through, fought in, and died in theUnconfinedWar.    Voice Masterclass with John Brancy Monday, October 15 at 4:30 PM FREE This masterclass for Stanford voice students is self-ruling and unshut to the public.   W I N T E R   2 0 1 8         Brian Thorsett, tenor Laura Dahl, sense pianist Program TBA Sunday, March 10 at 2:30 PM ADVANCE TICKETS: GENERAL $18 | SENIORS $13 (TICKET ON-SALE DATE TBA)AT THE DOOR: GENERAL $23 | SENIOR $18 | ALL STUDENTS WITH ID AND YOUTH UNDER 13 FREE (LIMITED AVAILABILITY)   Brian Thorsett has been hailed as “a strikingly gifted tenor, with a tightly moving, unblemished voice” (sfmusicjournal.com), excelling in opera, oratorio, and recital wideness the world. Since taking to the operatic stage, he has been seen and heard in over 100 diverse operatic roles, ranging from Monteverdi to Britten, when to Rameau and superiority then to works well-balanced specifically for his talents. Closely associated with expanding the vocal-chamber genre, he has been involved in premieres and commissions of Ian Venables, Peter Josheff, David Conte, Shinji Eshima, Scott Gendel, Gordon Getty, Michel Bosc, Noah Luna, Laurence Lowe, Brian Holmes, Eric Choate, Eric Davis, Michael Scherperel, Robert Conrad, and Nicholas Carlozzi. His voice has been featured in mucosa and commercials, stuff the versifier for Soundiron studio's Voice of Rapture: The Tenor. He moreover makes many concert appearances with SF Opera & Ballet Principal horn Kevin Rivard. Their interpretations of Britten's Serenade and Cancticle III have been tabbed “impressive, captivating, transporting” (repeatperformances.org), “lifted to greatness” (sfcv.org), “arresting, fervent and eerie” (nffo.org), and “so striking it managed to efface the original recording... a unconfined rendition, sad and poetic” (sfciviccenter.blogspot.org). Other projects include working with Theatre Comique, which specializes in historically informed performances of early Broadway music. Brian's first solo tome was released in 2016, featuring works of Frank Tours, Idabelle Firestone, Guy d'Hardelot, and their contemporaries serried for salon orchestra. He is a graduate of San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program, Glimmerglass Opera’s Young AmericanVersifierprogram, American Bach Soloists' Academy, and the Britten-Pears YoungVersifierProgramme at Aldeburgh, England; additionally, he spent two summers at the Music Academy of the West. Brian is currently Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech and previously served on sense at Santa Clara University and University of California at Berkeley.   StanfordSensePianist Laura Dahl is an zippy international performer and educator, having appeared in venues including Carnegie Hall, the Berlin Philharmonic, San Francisco’s Davies Symphony Hall and Stern Grove Festival, Bing Concert Hall at Stanford University, the Carmel Bach Festival, and the Henley Festival inUnconfinedBritain. A specialist in collaborative performance and chamber music, Dahl is the founder and originative director of Music by the Mountain, a chamber music festival in Northern California, and the A. Jess Shenson Recital Series at Stanford University. Dahl is a member of the Department of Music sense at Stanford University, where she teaches collaborative and solo piano, chamber music, art song interpretation, and diction. The first musician to be named a German Chancellor’s Scholar of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany), Dahl holds degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music and the University of Michigan School of Music.   Voice Masterclass with Brian Thorsett Monday, March 11 at 4:30 PM FREE This masterclass for Stanford voice students is self-ruling and unshut to the public.   Last modified on: Wednesday, December 7, 2016 Friends of Music Lockers & Practice Rooms Lockers Practice Rooms Concert Goers Upcoming Events Venue Maps & Directions Stanford Ticket Office Ticket Policies Email List Find us on Facebook More Music Bing Music Library Stanford Jazz Stanford Live Student Organizations Summer Activities Contact Us Department of MusicStanford University541 Lasuen Mall, MC:3076Stanford, CA 94305-3022Phone:  (650) 723-3811musicinfo@stanford.eduCampus Map Make a Gift Stanford Home Maps & Directions Search Stanford Emergency Info Terms of Use Privacy Copyright Trademarks Non-Discrimination Accessibility © Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305.