Celebrating Local Composers: A Recital Series
Free
- Gregory Brumfield, baritone
- Dan Gibbs, baritone
- Katherine Goforth, tenor
- Lindsey Rae Johnson, soprano
- Sequoia, piano
Carolyn Quick — O Captain! My Captain!
Drew Swatosh — If Only I Could Give You the Sun ("I want everything")
Carolyn Quick — The Promise
Emily Lau — Six Dickinson Poems ("I Shall Keep Singing!")
Drew Swatosh — Dead Fires Anthology ("There is Frost")
Lisa Neher — White Horizon ("Silent, Ice!")
Lisa Neher — By Candlelight
Drew Swatosh — A Poem of Gratitude
Join us for a recital series featuring works by local, living composers based in the Portland metro area. The programs and performers will vary between the 11/18 and 11/25 performances.
Featured Composers: Lisa Neher, Carolyn Quick, and Drew Swatosh of Raindrop New Music.
Vocalists:
11/18: Gregory Brumfield, Dan Gibbs, Katherine Goforth, Lindsey Rae Johnson
11/25: Phoebe Gildea, Lindsey Rae Johnson, Allison Knotts
Pianist: Sequoia
Location: Sanctuary at First Congregational United Church of Christ – Portland, an ADA accessible venue. The performances will also be live streamed.
Cost: Free to attend. Donations are greatly appreciated.
These recitals are funded in part by a grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC).
About Gregory Brumfield, baritone
About Katherine Goforth, tenor
American vocalist Katherine Goforth shares the "thrilling tenor power" (Opera News) of her "noble, colorful and iridescent vocal sound" (Magazin Klassik) in vivid character portraits and heartfelt performances that "[do] not hold back" (The New York Times). A transgender woman, Katherine is undeterred by historical barriers in the performing arts and is finding new ways to show up authentically on stage, in the rehearsal room, and as a creative artist.
Katherine is the recipient of Washington National Opera's inaugural True Voice Award for transgender and non-binary singers and the Career Advancement Award from the fourth Dallas Symphony Orchestra Women in Classical Music Symposium. She won critical acclaim as part of the cast that premiered Philip Venables and Ted Huffman’s The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions at Manchester International Festival, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, and Bregenzer Festspiele. Based in Portland, OR, she has appeared extensively as a soloist with Pacific Northwest-based arts organizations, including Portland Opera, Bozeman Symphony, Walla Walla Symphony, Yakima Symphony, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Opera Bend, Harmonia Seattle, Opera Theater Oregon, Sound Salon (formerly Byron Schenkman and Friends), Ping and Woof Opera, Artists Repertory Theatre, Fuse Theatre Ensemble, and Pink Martini.
Equally at home as a creative artist, Katherine was most recently part of the team that developed and produced Nu Nah-Hup: Sacajawea's Story, a collaboration with Rose Ann Abrahamson, Sacajawea's familial descendant, Hovia Edwards, Native American flutist, and Justin Ralls, composer and artistic director of Opera Theater Oregon, starring mezzo soprano Marion Newman and baritone Richard Zeller. She has written for Opera Canada, and spoken at Boston Conservatory, Whitman College, Renegade Opera, the Beyond Travesti podcast, and the League of American Orchestras Anne Parsons Leadership Program. She is a member of the Beth Morrison Projects Producer Academy 2023 Cohort.
Katherine was a member of the International Opera Studio of Oper Köln, received her Bachelor's degree from St. Olaf College, her Master's degree from the Juilliard School, and attended the Franz-Schubert-Institut, Britten Pears Young Artist Programme, Heidelberger Frühling Liedakademie, Georg Solti Accademia, and Boston Wagner Institute.
https://katherinegoforth.com/About Lindsey Rae Johnson, soprano
About Sequoia, piano
First Congregational United Church of Christ – Portland
1126 SW Park AvePortland, OR 97205
United States