The Bach Society Houston presents its last concert of the season with critically-acclaimed mezzo soprano Jennifer Lane on Sunday, May 8, 2016, at 6:00 p.m., at First Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1311 Holman, Houston, TX 77004. The chamber concert also features Rick Erickson, Director of the Bach Society Houston, and Christopher Holman on the organ. You may obtain your tickets here.
Experience the intimacy of the solo cantata with the warm alto voice of Jennifer Lane in a performance of three of Johann Sebastina Bach’s magnificent cantatas for solo voice: Geist und Seele wird verwirret, BWV 35, Gott soll allein mein Herze haben, BWV 169, Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust, BWV 170.
American mezzo-soprano Jennifer Lane is “a singer whose dark, bottomless voice is matched by her expressiveness and intelligence.” The press has described her singing as “clear, rich, plangent,” “compelling and dramatic,” and possessing “agility and charisma.” She has appeared with New York City Opera, Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Aix-en-Provence, Theâtre du Champs Elysées, Opera du Caen, and symphony orchestras worldwide, with such noted conductors as Michael Tilson Thomas, Mstislav Rostropovich, William Christie, Nicholas McGegan, Andrew Parrott, Christopher Hogwood, Marc Minkowski, Helmut Rilling, and Robert Shaw. Jennifer has made over 50 commercial CD recordings on a wide variety of labels and two films: Dido & Aeneas and The Opera Lover, and has directed operatic productions for Stanford University, the Lake Placid Institute, La Folia Baroque, the Blackfriars Theatre in Staunton, Virginia, and for the Lexington Opera Society Summer Workshop. Her students have won prizes in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Orpheus, NATS, and Fulbright Awards, appear nationally and internationally in concert, opera and recital, and hold university teaching positions.
Nominated for a Grammy in 2015 for her role (Athena) in Milhaud’s Orestie, mezzo-soprano Jennifer Lane has taught at University of North Texas in Denton since 2007. Her extensive academic teaching background, includes teaching Voice at Stanford University, the University of Kentucky, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, and at summer programs and master classes for The Peabody Institute, San Francisco Conservatory, Baldwin-Wallace University, Oberlin College, The City University of New York, and many others. Also in 2015, two of her recordings (Threni and A Sermon, A Narrative, and A Prayer) were included in Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft’s 30-CD Stravinsky Complete Edition. Prof. Lane is an ensemble member on the Grammy-winning Deutsche Grammophon recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 3, with the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Leonard Bernstein.