Richard Masters

Upcoming Performances

February 24 - March 4, 2012: UT Austin: New York Stories
7:30 PM | McCullough Theater, Austin, TX
Music director/Coach/Pianist
Daron Hagen: New York Stories

March 8, 2012: Saxophone Recital
7:30 PM | Recital Studio, UT Austin
with Amanda Ozley, saxophone
Chris Ozley: In the City

March 9, 2012: Kaleidoscope: Relics
8:00 PM | Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd (3201 Windsor Rd.)
with Bruce Cain, baritone
Ronald: Prelude (from The Cycle of Life)
Somervell: Come into the Garden, Maud
Britten: Salley Gardens
Grainger: Hard Hearted Barbra-Ellen

April 1, 2012: Kaleidoscope Goes to Seguin
6:00 PM | Texas Lutheran University - Seguin, Texas
with Kathryn Findlen, mezzo-soprano
works of Debussy and others

April 20-29, 2012: UT Austin: Die Fledermaus
7:30 | McCullough Theater, Austin, TX
Assistant conductor/Coach

November 3, 2012: Sparkling City Light Opera: La Traviata
7:30 PM | Performing Arts Center - Texas A&M University (Corpus Christi, TX)
Music Director


 

Past Performances

February 3, 2012: UT: Black History Month Concert
7:30 PM | Bates Recital Hall
with UT undergraduate singers
Works of William Grant Still and others.

December 16, 2011: Kaleidoscope: Early Music Extravaganza
8:00 PM | Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd (3201 Windsor Rd.)
Pianist
Thomas Tomkins: A Sad Pavan for these distracted times (February 14, 1649)
Orlando Gibbons: Italian Ground
John Bull: Toye, or Courante Adieu
William Byrd, arr. by Percy Grainger: The Carman's Whistle

December 3, 2011: Recital: Brad Raymond, Tenor
6:00 PM | Recital Studio, UT Austin
with Brad Raymond and Emily Ward, soprano
Bartok: Five Songs, op. 15
Turina: Poema en forma de canciones
Dvořák: Four Duets for tenor and soprano
Rachmaninoff: Four Songs

November 22, 2011: Butler Opera Center: Graduate Opera Scenes
7:30 PM | McCullough Theater, Austin, TX
Singers from the BOC Opera Center, Kelly Kuo, conductor
Works of Adamo, Puccini, Strauss, Bizet, Mozart

November 18, 2011: Kaleidoscope: Exoticism in Music
8:00 PM | Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd (3201 Windsor Rd, Austin, TX)
with Kathryn Findlen, mezzo-soprano
Ravel: Shéhérazade

November 13, 2011: The Great War in Music
7:30 PM | Recital Studio, University of Texas at Austin
with Roger Myers, violist
George Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad
John Ireland: Sonata for Piano (1918-1920), Sonata no. 2 in A Minor for violin (arr. for viola by Lionel Tertis)

October 21-30, 2011: UT Austin:The Consul (Menotti)
7:30 | McCullough Theater, Austin, TX
Assistant conductor/coach

October 9, 2011: BOC at the Blanton
2:00 PM | Blanton Art Museum
with students from the Butler Opera Center
Excerpts from "Carmen," "The Consul," "The Pearl Fishers," "Lakmé" and others.

October 3, 2011: The Banned and the Damned: The Kaiser of Atlantis
7:00 PM | Jessen Hall (UT Austin)
Assistant conductor/pianist
Ullmann: Der Kaiser von Atlantis

September 12, 2011: Fall Faculty Gala
7:30 PM | Bates Recital Hall (UT Austin)
with David Small, baritone
Italian songs

August 12, 2011: Introducing: Kaleidoscope!
8:00 PM | Church of the Good Shepherd (3201 Windsor Rd, Austin, TX )
with Kathryn Findlen, Anne Epperson and others
Works of John Ireland, Dvořák, Turina and others.

June 6 - July 8, 2011: Butler Opera Center Young Artist Program
University of Texas, Austin, TX
Faculty coach/pianist

May 14-21, 2011: Druid City Opera Workshop
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
Coach/Pianist

May 6, 2011: BOC Opera in Concert
7:30 PM | McCullough Theater, Austin, TX
Singers from the Butler Opera Center
Works of Beethoven, Hoiby, Menotti, Puccini, Tchaikovsky, and others.

April 21 - May 1, 2011: UT Austin: Così fan tutte
7:30 | McCullough Theater, Austin, TX
Assistant conductor/coach, Harpsichord continuo

April 6, 2011: Rick Masters and Friends
7:30 PM | Bates Recital Hall, University of Texas at Austin
with Jessica Mathaes, violinist; Annamarie Zmolek, soprano; Kathryn Findlen, mezzo-soprano
Mozart: Ch'io mi scordi di te, K. 503 Delius: Violin Sonata in B Major (1892)
Rachmaninoff: Four Songs (Oh Cease Thy Singing, Aa-oo, At the Window, What Happiness)
Argento: From the Diary of Virginia Woolf

March 10, 2011: A Celebration of the Musical Arts
1:00 PM | Bates Recital Hall (UT Austin)
with Roger Myers, violist; Icy Simpson, soprano; Soonchan Kwon, tenor; Brad Raymond, tenor; Emily Ward, soprano; Claudia Chapa, mezzo-soprano
Works by Cassado, Catan, Donizetti, Ponchielli, Thomas and others.

February 25 - March 6, 2011: UT Austin: Rappacini's Daughter (Catan)
7:30 PM | McCullough Theater, Austin, TX
Assistant conductor/coach

February 5, 2011: Black History Month Concert
7:30 PM | Bates Recital Hall (UT Austin)
with Barbara Conrad, mezzo-soprano

February 3, 2011: "When I Rise" - Film and Recital
6:30 PM | LBJ Auditorium, UT Austin
with Barbara Conrad, mezzo-soprano; Icy Simpson, soprano

January 23, 2011: Metropolitan Opera Regional Competition
2:00 PM | Trinity University (San Antonio, TX)

January 14-16, 2011: Mercury Opera: Falstaff
8:00PM & 2:00 PM | Eastman Theater
Assistant conductor/Répétiteur

December 2, 2010: Opera Scenes
7:30 PM | McCullough Theater, University of Texas at Austin
Coach/Pianist
Excerpts from Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Of Mice and Men, Street Scene and others.

October 24-31, 2010: UT Austin: L'elisir d'amore
7:30 PM | McCullough Theater, Austin, TX
Assistant Conductor/Coach

October 10-10, 2010: Butler Opera Center Presents Excerpts from L'elisir d'amore
2:00 PM | Blanton Art Museum
Excerpts from Donizetti's "L'elisir d'amore," Rossini's "Il Barbiere di Siviglia," and Mozart "Le Nozze di Figaro" with singers from the Butler Opera Center.

April 16-18, 2010: Mercury Opera Presents
8:00 PM & 2:00 PM | Hochstein Performance Hall, Rochester, NY
with Kathryn Lewek, soprano; Aaron Lundy, tenor; Jan Opalach, bass-baritone
Bach: "Coffee" Cantata, BWV 211

April 3, 2010: The Music of John Ireland
6:30 PM | Ciminelli Lounge, Eastman School of Music
The Island Spell
Fantasy-Sonata (with Adrian Sandi, clarinetist)
The Land of Lost Content (with Jason Lee, tenor)
Spring will not wait
Piano Sonata (1920, revised 1951)

March 21, 2010: An Evening of Bel Canto
2:00 PM | Rochester Academy of Medicine
with Holly Corcoran and Danielle Frink, sopranos
Works of Bellini, Bizet, Catalani, Delibes, Dvorak, Offenbach & Puccini

March 13, 2010: An Evening of Song
7:30 PM | Westminister Presbyterian Church, Buffalo, NY
with Johanna Moffitt, soprano
Ravel: Cinq mélodies populaires greques
Marx: Am Fenster, Die Begegnung, Japanisches Regenlied, Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam, Venetianisches Wiegenlied, Hat dich die Liebe berührht
Britten: On this Island (excerpts)
Porter: Night and Day, DeLovely
Gershwin: The Man I Love, I loves you, Porgy (Porgy and Bess)
Waller: Honeysuckle Rose, Ain't misbehavin'

February 2, 2010: Recital with Norman Bolter, trombone
8:00 PM | Kilbourn Hall, Eastman School of Music
Bolter: Morning Walk, The Song of David

January 15-17, 2010: Mercury Opera: La Traviata
8:00 PM & 2:00 PM | Eastman Theater
Assistant Conductor/Répétiteur

November 14-15, 2009: Mercury Opera: The Three Little Pigs
1:30 PM | Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word
Music director
with Danielle Frink, soprano; Kate Maroney, mezzo soprano, John Buffett, baritone; Philippe Bolduc, bass; John Davies, director
Mozart-Davies: The Three Little Pigs

November 8, 2009: George Copeland: Incomparable and Alone
6:30 PM | Ciminelli Lounge, Eastman School of Music
Lecture and Recital, with Helen Hou, pianist; Kate Maroney, mezzo-soprano
L’aprés-midi d’un faune (arr. for piano four hands by Maurice Ravel)
La Lettre de Geneviève (Pelleas et Melisande)
Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut (Images II)
Excerpts from: Prèludes, Livre I
Les collines d’Anacapri
Ce qua vu le vent d’ouest
La fille aux cheveux de lin
L'isle joyeuse

October 17, 2009: Violin Degree Recital
8:00 PM | Kilbourn Hall, Eastman School of Music
with Kitty Cheung, violinist
Wieniawski: Fantasy brillante on Gounod's Faust
Beethoven: Sonata no. 9 in A, op. 47, "Kreutzer"

September 4, 2009: Katie Hannigan Lecture Recital
6:30 PM | Ciminelli Lounge, Eastman School of Music
Lecture by Katie Hannigan on songs of Strauss, Goldmark, Debussy and Faure
Strauss & Goldmark: Befreit
Debussy & Faure: Mandoline

June 24, 2009: Vocal Recital
1:00 PM | Kilbourn Hall, Eastman School of Music
with Rebecca Weaver, soprano
Verdi: Three Songs
Liszt: Four Songs
Biscardi: The Gift of Life
Faure: Poème d’un jour, op. 21
Heggie: Three American Folksongs

May 6, 2009: An Afternoon of Russian and Czech Song
3:45 PM | Ciminelli Lounge, Eastman School of Music
with Korin Kormick & Quinn Patrick, mezzo-sopranos; Richard Masters, baritone & Benton Hess, pianist
Rachmaninov: To the Children
Tchaikovsky: Only One Who Has Known Longing, Was I Not a Little Blade of Grass in the Field
Rimsky-Korsakov: Lyubasha's Song (The Tsar's Bride)
Mussorgsky: Fortunetelling (Khovanshchina
Dvorak: Čury mury fuk (Rusalka), Ciganské melodie (complete)

May 1, 2009: Flute Recital
8:00 PM | Howard Hanson Hall, Eastman School of Music
with Pam Daniels, flutist
Schumann: Three Romances, op. 94
Barber: Capricorn Concerto, op. 21

April 29, 2009: Vocal Recital
1:30 PM | Kilbourn Hall, Eastman School of Music
with Stephan Holden-Corbett, baritone; Scott Lykins, cellist; Kathryn Denny, oboe
J.S. Bach: Endlich, endlich wird mein joch (from Cantata BWV 56)
Schumann: Liederkreis, op. 24
Faure: Mirages, op. 113
Weill: Four Walt Whitman Poems

April 17, 2009: Vocal Recital
1:30 PM | Bethel Christian Church, Rochester, NY
with Katie Hannigan, mezzo-soprano
Marx: Der Ton, Maienblüten, Es zürnt das Meer, Hat dich die Liebe berührht
Chausson: Chanson Perpétuelle
Strauss: Ich trage meine Minne, Befreit, Wir sollten wir geheim
Carpenter: Gitanjali

April 2-5, 2009: ESM Opera Theater: The Marriage of Figaro
8:00 PM, 2:30 PM | Eastman Theater
Répétiteur/Coach

April 2, 2009: Kate Maroney Lecture Recital
8:30 PM | Ciminelli Lounge, Eastman School of Music
Lecture by Kate Maroney on Debussy's Proses Lyriques
Debussy: Proses Lyriques

January 31, 2009: DMA Degree Recital
8:00 PM | Kilbourn Hall, Eastman School of Music
with Kate Maroney, mezzo-soprano; Norman Gonzalez, flutist; Megan Koch, cellist
Purcell: If Music be the Food of Love, Nymphs and Shepherds, Sweeter than Roses
J.S. Bach: Sonata in E-flat Major, BWV 1031
Ives: Piano sonata no. 2: Concord, Mass., 1840-1860. Mvts 3 & 4, The Alcotts; Thoreau
R. Strauss: Sonata in F Major, op. 6

January 16-18, 2009: Mercury Opera: Tosca
8:00 PM & 2:00 PM | Eastman Theater
Assistant Conductor/Répétiteur