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Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra, Heavenly Voice April 9

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Type of Business:
Entertainment / Performance

IPO Location:
377 Artists Walk, Park Forest, IL 60466

Box Office:
708.481.7774, ext. 103

Website:
www.ipomusic.org

About This Performance:
Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra Presents—Heavenly Voice
Saturday, April 9 at 8 p.m.
At Lincoln-Way North Performing Arts Center
19900 S. Harlem Ave., Frankfort IL

Carmon DeLeone, conductor
NaGuanda Nobles, lyric soprano

Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3

Mozart
“Ah se in ciel, benigne stelle”

Rachmaninoff
Vocalise

Mahler
Symphony No. 4 in G major

The transcendent qualities of the music on this program infuse one with emotional extremes: joy and sorrow, elegy and ecstasy. Soprano NaGuanda Nobles sings the Vocalise, a song without words replete with lush melodies, while Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, offers a glimpse of the heaven through a child’s innocent eyes. Bach’s masterwork, Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, completes this selection of heavenly music.

About NaGuanda Nobles:
Like most great singers, Mrs. Nobles began singing within the supportive walls of her home church. It was there she discovered a love for singing and developed as a soloist. As a member of the Georgia Mass Choir, under the direction of Rev. Milton Biggham, she performed in the film The Preacher’s Wife. Although she was born in Tallahassee, Florida, Mrs. Nobles attended high school in Thomasville, Georgia, where she began her classical training. She received her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in voice performance from Florida State University. She made her debut on the opera stage as Papagena in a production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, with the FSU orchestra. Throughout her years of college, Mrs. Nobles was a featured soloist in the Florida State University Singers, directed by Dr. André Thomas. In the summer of 2002, Dr. Thomas invited Mrs. Nobles to be the soprano soloist on the Soul of America tour throughout Germany with the Berlin Rundfunkchor. One of Mrs. Nobles’ crowning performances was at her alma mater, as the featured soloist in An Evening With Gershwin concert, with the Tallahassee Community Chorus and Symphony under the baton of Dr. Thomas.

Mrs. Nobles was contracted to participate in the Austin Lyric Opera’s (ALO) Young Artist program for the 2002-2003 season and made her ALO debut performing the role of Sister Rose in the Southwestern premiere of Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking and was recognized by the San Antonio’s Express News as being “one of the standouts among the other singers.” The Austin American-Statesman reviewed her performance as “vocally impressive,” while the Houston Chronicle reviewed her as one who “sang radiantly”. Also during the season she was awarded second place in the Southwest Regional Competition of the Metropolitan Opera National Council in January 2003. In the fall of 2003, Mrs. Nobles performed the role of Liú in an ALO production of Puccini’s Turandot, under the baton of Maestro Peter Bay. She also made her Boston Symphony debut with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, singing the soprano solo in Wynton Marsalis’ All Rise, under the baton of Maestro Kurt Masur. Making her debut with the Pensacola Opera, Mrs. Nobles performed the role of Clara in George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, under the baton of Maestro Jerome Shannon. The next season, she was invited to perform an encore performance with Maestro Shannon with the Mobile Opera.

Mrs. Nobles joined the Pittsburgh Opera Center in 2005 and proudly performed in the main stage performances of Rigoletto and Ariadne auf Naxos. In that same season, Mrs. Nobles performed the role of Atalanta in the Opera Center’s production of Xerxes by Handel. She was reviewed as being “outstanding as the bad girl…with a sizeable voice and riveting persona to match” by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Mrs. Nobles was invited back for a second season with the Pittsburgh Opera Center to perform the charming role of Papagena in their Spring 2007 production of Die Zauberflöte. The Pittsburgh post-gazette gave a wonderful review questioning why Mozart and his librettist didn’t introduce the character of Papagena earlier in the opera “after seeing NaGuanda Nobles excel in the role.” The same review stated that she “captured the silly yet sexy birdwoman with ease.” Recently, she was awarded first place in the Irene Dalis Vocal Competition in it’s inaugural year. Other awards include first place in both the Opera Birmingham competition and the Classical Singer Convention competition, Division 1, in its inaugural year.

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