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Jay Lane is a choral conductor, voice teacher, organist and pianist. Jay holds a Ph.D. in
musicology from Yale University, where he conducted for the Yale Bach Society and the
Yale Gilbert and Sullivan Society, and led the Branford Chamber Orchestra. He has also
conducted for the Fiddlehead Theater in Norwood, MA, and for the M.I.T. Gilbert and
Sullivan Players. He has studied organ with Roberta Bitgood and Thomas Murray, piano
with Elizabeth Sawyer Parisot, and conducting with Charles Bruck; presently he studies
voice with Lin Schuller.
Jay Lane is the music minister at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Acton, where he
leads six groups; he also conducts the Wakefield Choral Society (a community chorus),
and leads Vox Lucens , a 12-voice Renaissance choir in which he sings first tenor. Jay is
a Certified McClosky Voice Technician, and teaches voice privately in Acton and
Arlington.
Martha Sullivan - New York composer Martha Sullivan's works have been
commissioned by artists including the Dale Warland Singers, the Gregg Smith Singers,
Chicago A Cappella, Bell Voce (Reno, NV), the Esoterics (Seattle), Vocativ (Zurich,
Switzerland), and the international organ recitalist Stephen Tharp. Her choral music has
been broadcast over New York's WQXR and has been recorded by Chicago A Cappella
and the mezzo soprano Virginia Dupuy. Her work also appears in the book "Singing for
Dummies." She has been awarded grants by Meet the Composer and was the winner of
the Dale Warland Singers' 2003 Choral Ventures competition.
Ms. Sullivan is also a noted singer, especially of new music. She has performed with
many groups committed to new works, notably the Gregg Smith Singers, New York
Virtuoso Singers, and Vox Vocal Ensemble. Her recent solo performances have included
works by Steve Reich (with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project), John Zorn, and
Milton Babbitt (at the Guggenheim Museum). She is a member of Toby Twining Music
and has both sung premieres of Mr. Twining's "Chrysalid Requiem" in Amsterdam and
New York and recorded the work, on Cantaloupe Records. She premiered Karl Korte's
"Shiki" with the Gregg Smith Singers; she has also premiered songs by John Zorn at
Bargemusic, and recently recorded his
"Frammenti di Sappho".
Ms. Sullivan sings plenty of choral music; most recently she joined New York's
Collegiate chorale in Verbier, Switzerland, for a performance of Verdi's Requiem with
James Levine conducting, and is still overwhelmed by the power of the experience.
Ms. Sullivan is also a respected teacher and clinician; she teaches music theory and
musicianship at New York University, but has also run workshops at Clark University
(Worcester, MA) and St. Michael's College (Colchester, VT), and for Tokyo's Studio
Arsis. She has also been a choral conductor and founded two groups in the Boston area
when she lived here.
She is honored to be a part of this project benefitting the Teresa Bogstad Fund, because
although music can change lives, it is not so often that it saves lives.
Janine Wanée - mezzo-soprano Janine Wanée has a Bachelors Degree from University
of Southern California, and a Masters Degree from Boston University in Music - Vocal
Performance. She received full scholarship and graduated from Boston University's
Opera Institute, a performance oriented, two-year certificate program, and has spent
summers in Canada at the Banff Center's 20th Century Song program, and in England
where she received a certificate from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art for a
Professional Acting Shakespeare summer course in London. She directed a one-act play
for a summer performance of one-acts with the MIT Community Players. Organizing
this benefit recital for the Terry Bogstad fund represents her first experience working as a
producer. She has taught voice privately, and writes songs, poetry, folk music, and prose.
Her first love as a singer is performing as a recitalist, and this program is a great
opportunity for her to share that love with an audience.
Geoffrey Wieting earned the degrees of B.A. and B.Mus. at Oberlin College and Oberlin
Conservatory where he received the Selby Houston Award in organ performance. At
Oberlin he studied organ with Haskell Thomson and harpsichord with Lisa Goode
Crawford. He went on to receive a M.Mus. in collaborative piano from New England
Conservatory where he studied with Terry Decima, Margo Garrett, and Martin Katz. For
many years he has been active at Trinity Church, Boston, as a member of the Trinity
Choir and recently served a year as interim assistant organist. He has performed
extensively as solo organ recitalist, liturgical musician, chamber musician, choral singer,
and collaborative pianist. With baritone Christópheren Nomura he has given a number of
song recitals, including a live performance broadcast on Boston’s WGBH-FM. He has
also served as staff pianist at Boston University’s College of Fine Arts, accompanying
vocal degree candidates in lessons, competitions, and recitals as well as playing for
diction classes, master classes, and auditions at B.U.’s prestigious Opera Institute. He has
also served as a pianist for the Opera Lirica training institute for young singers in
Orvieto, Italy, a part of the Orvieto Musica festival. Additionally, he has participated
annually since 1992, both as choral singer and pianist, in the Ogontz Choral Music
Symposium in Lisbon, NH, directed by Sir David Willcocks.
Patrick Yacono - pianist Patrick Yacono is a recent graduate of Boston University
(DMA Collaborative Piano), where he wrote his doctoral dissertation on the songs for
voice and piano of the Bulgarian composer Marin Goleminov. As a graduate student
there he performed in over 250 vocal and chamber music recitals, and is a past winner of
the Boston University Concerto-Aria competition. He has appeared several times with
Boston Musica Viva and is the principal keyboard player of the New England
Philharmonic. As a clarinetist he has performed both with the Boston University
Percussion Ensemble and as a participant in the Artist Fellowship Program at the
Hampden-Sydney music festival (Hampden-Sydney, VA), in addition to numerous
performances of Balkan folk music throughout the US, Canada, and Bulgaria.
Sarah Young is a freelance oboist and oboe teacher in the greater Providence area. After
earning her Master's Degree in Music Performance from DePaul University, Chicago, in
2000, she spent the next three years playing oboe and English horn full-time with
professional orchestras in Monterrey and Guanajuato, Mexico, before moving home to
her native New England. She also holds dual bachelor's degrees in Music and Civil
Engineering from Stanford University, teaches Mathematics at Lincoln School in
Providence, RI, and makes a mean flourless chocolate torte.