FROM VIENNA TO BROADWAY
On the concert stage, Plumley has performed a broad spectrum of works, including Mozart’ s“ Coronation” Mass and Haydn’ s“ Mass in Time of War” with the New England Symphonic Ensemble at Carnegie Hall; Mozart’ s Mass in C Minor and Elgar’ s“ For the Fallen”; Bach’ s“ Coffee” Cantata; Respighi’ s“ Laud to the Nativity”; Bach’ s Cantata No. 1; A Yuletide Celebration with the Indianapolis and Portland symphony orchestras and the Seattle Symphony; and An Evening of Gilbert and Sullivan with the symphony orchestras of St. Louis and Memphis, Richmond Symphony and the Minnesota Orchestra.
Enthusiastic about contemporary works, she has been active in many new operas at the prestigious Banff Centre for the Arts( Alberta, Canada) and in companies throughout New York City.
Plumley received an Artist Diploma in opera from the Hartt School of Music and a Bachelor of Arts in psychology and music from Holy Cross College. Twice a winner in the Connecticut Opera Guild Scholarship Competition, she is also a recipient of the Richard F. Gold Career Grant( Shoshana Foundation).
Kristen Plumley last appeared with the BSO in April 2016, performing Broadway Divas, Jack Everly, conducting.
Jack Everly
Baltimore Choral Arts Society and Anthony Blake Clark
The Baltimore Choral Arts Society, now in its 52 nd season, is one of Maryland’ s premier cultural institutions. The Symphonic Chorus, Full Chorus, Orchestra and Chamber Chorus perform throughout the mid-Atlantic region, as well as in Washington, D. C., New York and Europe.
Conductor and composer Anthony Blake Clark began his first season as music director of Baltimore Choral Arts Society in summer 2017. Clark has led ensembles in the U. S. and Europe, and his compositions have been heard across the country as well as in the U. K. and the Czech Republic. He has prepared choruses for Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Simon Halsey, Gijs Leenaars and Julian Wilkins for performances with ensembles including the Berlin Philharmonic and
the Berlin Radio Choir. Recently, Clark was the assistant chorus master for the Berlin Philharmonic’ s performance of Stravinsky’ s Oedipus Rex under the baton of Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
For the past 21 years, WMAR television has featured Choral Arts in an hour-long special, Christmas with Choral Arts, which won an Emmy ® Award in 2006. The chorus was also featured in the PBS documentary Jews and Christians: A Journey of Faith, broadcast nationwide, and on NPR’ s Special Coverage in the fall of 2001. The ensemble has been featured frequently on The First Art( Public Radio International), Performance Today( NPR) and VOX( XM Radio). In Europe, Choral Arts was featured in a program devoted to the music of Handel, broadcast on Radio Suisse Romande. On local radio, Baltimore Choral Arts was featured on Choral Arts Classics, a program on WYPR hosted by Music Director Emeritus Tom Hall that features the Choral Arts Chorus and Orchestra.
In 2010, Choral Arts released Christmas at America’ s First Cathedral on Gothic Records, recorded at the Baltimore Basilica, which includes familiar Christmas favorites as well as premieres by Rosephanye Dunn Powell and James Lee III. A recording with Dave Brubeck, featuring Brubeck’ s oratorio The Gates of Justice, was released internationally on the Naxos label in 2004; Choral Arts is also featured on Introducing the World of American Jewish Music on Naxos. Choral Arts has two other recordings in current release: Christmas with Choral Arts and a live recording of the Rachmaninoff All-Night Vigil.
Acclaimed artists collaborating with Choral Arts have included Sweet Honey in the Rock, Chanticleer, Dave Brubeck, the King’ s Singers, Anonymous 4, Peter Schickele, Kathy Mattea and others. Baltimore Choral Arts’ innovative programs often feature both choral and orchestral music, stage and theater works.
Baltimore Choral Arts Society last appeared with the BSO in November 2016, performing Beethoven’ s Ninth Symphony, Marin Alsop, conductor.
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