MAHLER SYMPHONY NO. 3
University of Maryland
Concert Choir
THE MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE
Thursday, March 12, 2020, 8 pm
Saturday, March 14, 2020, 8 pm
JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL
Friday, March 13, 2020, 8 pm
Marin Alsop, conductor
Cierra Byrd, mezzo-soprano
University of Maryland Concert Choir,
Edward Maclary, director
Peabody Children’s Chorus,
Doreen Falby, director
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 3 in D Minor
Kräftig, Entschieden
Tempo di Menuetto. Sehr mässig
Comodo. Scherzando. Ohne Hast
Sehr langsam. Misterioso
Lustig im Tempo und keck im Ausdruck
Langsam. Ruhevoll. Empfunden
The performance will end at approximately 9:45 pm.
This performance will not include an intermission.
PRESENTING SPONSOR:
MEDIA PARTNER:
The appearance of the Peabody Children’s Chorus is made possible through the
support of the Hilda Perl Goodwin Young Artist Fund.
About the Artists
Marin Alsop
For Marin Alsop’s bio, please see pg. 7.
Cierra Byrd
Cierra Byrd, mezzo
soprano, is a native
of Akron, OH and a
graduate of The Ohio
State University. Byrd
has performed as a featured soloist
nationally and abroad with recognized
ensembles and organizations. She is the
first winner of the Wilson Vocal Award;
a recipient of the Peabody Institute’s
Artist Excellence Award; and has recently
placed as finalist or semi-finalist in The
British Art Song Society Competition,
The National Opera Association’s
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Carolyn Bailey and Dominick Argento
Vocal Competition, the Opera Ebony
Competition, the Peabody Institute’s Art
Song Competition and in Baltimore’s
Wonderlic Memorial Competition.
Byrd is currently pursuing a graduate
degree at the Peabody Institute under
the tutelage of Margaret Baroody and
Denyce Graves. Recent and future
roles include La Zia Principessa in
Suor Angelica and Lady Catherine de
Bourgh in Pride and Prejudice with
Peabody Opera Theatre; The Witch in
Hansel and Gretel with Opera Saratoga;
The Lioness in The Opposable Thumb
with American Lyric Theater; and The
Governess in The Queen of Spades with
Des Moines Metro Opera.
The University of Maryland (UMD)
Concert Choir comprises singers
chosen by audition from across the
College Park campus. Over the
past two decades the ensemble has
established a national reputation for
excellence in the performance of a wide
range of symphonic literature.
The UMD Concert Choir made
its debut in 2013 with the Baltimore
Symphony Orchestra under Marin
Alsop in performances of Britten’s
War Requiem to mark the composer’s
centenary. Since then the ensemble
has been honored to perform with the
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO)
in a diverse body of repertoire such as
the Mozart Requiem and Mass in
C minor, Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem,
Arvo Pärt’s Credo and Stravinsky’s
Symphony of Psalms. Their most recent
collaboration with Marin Alsop and
the BSO was in March 2019 when they
sang the world premiere of Across the
Line of Dreams by Roxanna Panufnik.
The UMD Concert Choir has
become the ensemble of choice for
the National Symphony Orchestra’s
(NSO) annual performances of
Handel’s Messiah, performing the
work in ten of the last fifteen seasons
at the Kennedy Center. In 2019 they
made their Carnegie Hall debut,
performing the Rossini Stabat Mater
and Liszt’s A Symphony to Dante’s
Divine Comedy with the NSO and
Gianandrea Noseda.
Edward Maclary leads the UMD
choral ensembles and directs the
graduate conducting program at the
School of Music. Ensembles under
his direction have won top prizes in
international competitions, appeared
at major concert venues throughout
the U.S. and performed by invitation
on multiple occasions at prestigious,
professional music conferences.
The UMD Concert Choir last appeared
with the BSO in March 2019, performing
works of Bernstein, Roxanna Panufnik and
Cierra Byrd makes her BSO debut.
Villa-Lobos; Marin Alsop, conductor.