Concert Program
ENRIQUE GRANADOS
(1867-1916) Selections from Tonadillas
ISAAC ALBENIZ
(1860-1909) Asturias
JOAQUIN RODRIGO
(1901-1999) Tres Canciones Españolas
AARON COPLAND
(1900 – 1990) Selections from Old American Songs
INTERMISSION
ELLIOTT CARTER
(1908-2012) Tell Me Where Fancy is Bred
JASON VIEAUX
(b. 1973) Tidal Pools (2025)
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
(1918-1990) Somewhere
MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS
(1944-2026) Not everyone thinks I’m beautiful
STEPHEN SONDHEIM
(1930-2021) Children will Listen
TRADITIONAL SPIRITUAL
(arr. Hogan) Give me Jesus
HAWAIIAN FOLK SONGS
(arr. Amy Hanaiali’i) Palehua
Wailana
Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano
Jason Vieaux
Artists
SASHA COOKE
Two-time Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke has been praised for her “agile, glamorous presence” by Opéra Magazine and as a “luminous standout” by the New York Times. Ms. Cooke has sung at the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, English National Opera, Seattle Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Opéra National de Bordeaux, and Gran Teatre del Liceu, among others, and with over a hundred chamber and symphony orchestras worldwide frequently in the works of Mahler. In 2022 Ms. Cooke was appointed at the Music Academy of the West as Co-Director of the Lehrer Vocal Institute. Her album How Do I Find You was nominated for a 2022 Grammy Award for Best Vocal Solo Album.
JASON VIEAUX
Grammy-winner Jason Vieaux, “among the elite of today’s classical guitarists” (Gramophone), is described by NPR as “perhaps the most precise and soulful classical guitarist of his generation."
In appearances from New York’s Lincoln Center to Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and the Seoul Arts Center, Jason Vieaux has cemented his reputation as an artist of brilliance and uncompromised mastery. Cited for his “eloquent and vibrant performances” on disc (Gramophone Magazine) he is hailed as “virtuosic, flamboyant, dashing and, sometimes ineffably lyrical” (New York Times) on stage.