Herbert Burtis: Musician, Author, and Educator




	Sunday, August 20, 2006 at 4:00 p.m., Rood Hill Farm Concerts presents Yevgeny Kutik, violinist and Tim Bozarth, pianist in concert. Works of Beethoven, Bach, Paganini, and Wagner. Yevgeny Kutik is the Ferris-Burtis Music Scholarship winner, part of the Berkshire-Taconic Foundation. roodhill@taconic.net

	Sunday, September 17, 2006 at 2:00 p.m., Epp Sonin, soprano is the soloist in Samuel Barber's Knoxville with the Concord Orchestra, 51 Walden Street, Concord, MA. For tickets call 978 369 4967.

	Saturday, October 7, 2006 Rood Hill Farm Concerts presents Thomas Cooke, baritone and Herbert Burtis, pianist, performing Franz Schubert's Winterreise at Rood Hill Farm, Sandisfield, MA at 7:30 p.m. Contact roodhill@taconic.net for more information.
	Sunday, October 22, 2006 Thomas Cook, baritone and Herbert Burtis, pianist will be presented performing Schubert's Winterreise at The Old Stone Church in Navesink, NJ at 4:30 PM. For more information contact Eleanor Linley at ebllocust@verizon.net.

	Friday, November 3, 2006, at 8:00 p.m., Nathaniel Watson will be the baritone soloist in Franz Schubert's Mass in E-flat at the Carol Marsani Hall, Tampa, Fl, Stefan Sanderling conducting. For information www.floridaorchestra.org.
	Saturday, November 4, 2006 Nathaniel Watson will repeat this concert at the Mahaffey Theatre, St. Petersburg, FL at 8:00 p.m. www.floridaorchestra.org.
	Sunday, November 5, 2006 Nathaniel Watson will sing the last of these three performances of the Schubert Mass at the Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater, FL at 7:30 p.m. www.floridaorchestra.org.
	Sunday, November 5, 2006 at 2:00 p.m., Gayle Ross, soprano will be the soloist with Ralph D'Mello, clarinetist, and Cynthia Skafidas, pianist performing Geistliches Wiegenlied by Johannes Brahms, East Indian Folk Songs arranged by D'Mello, and Slovak Folk Songs arranged by D'Mello. The concert is at the Liverpool Library, 310 Tulip Street, Liverpool, NY 13088. For information (315) 699-5856.
	Saturday, November 11, 2006 at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, November 12, 2006, at 3:00 p.m. Nathaniel Watson will be the baritone soloist in Ruth Fazal's Oratorio Terezin at the George Westin Recital Hall, North York (Toronto), ON, Canada. Mr. Watson has sung this work previously in Toronto, Bratislava, Vienna, Brno, Prague, Tel Aviv, and Jerusalem.

	Friday, December 1, 2006 at 7:30 p.m., Nathaniel Watson will be the baritone soloist in Bach's Christmas Oratorio at the 1st United Methodist Church, Palo Alto, CA with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorus, under the direction of Nicholas McGegan. He will repeat this concert: Saturday, December 2, 2006 at 7:30 at the 1st Congregational Church, Berkeley, CA Wednesday, December 7, 2006 in Orange County, CA Thursday, December 8, 2006 at 7:30 p.m. at the Herbst Theatre, San Francisco, CA Friday, December 9, 2006 at the Lafayette-Orinda Presbyterian Church, Lafayette, CA For information www.philharmonia.org.
	Saturday, December 9, 2006, Janet Brown, soprano will be the soloist in Handel's Messiah at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall in Troy, NY at 8:00 p.m. For more information www.albanypromusica.org
	Sunday, December 10, 2006, Janet Brown, soprano will again be the soprano soloist in Handel's Messiah at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Albany, NY at 2:00 pm. For more information www.albanypromusica.org
	Wednesday, December 13, 2006 at 8:00 p.m., Nathaniel Watson, baritone, will sing the role of St. Paul in Felix Mendelssohn's Paulus at Le Grand Théatre, Québec, QC, with the Québec Symphony, Yoav Talmi conducting. For more information www.osq.qc.ca/2006-2007/pages-eg/index.htm
	Sunday, December 17, 2006 Mssrs. Cooke and Burtis will be presented at the town house of Robert and Felicia Lipson, 149 East 69th Street in New York City. For more information contact Felicia@lipson.net
	Thursday, December 21 at 8:00 p.m., Friday December 22 at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, December 23 at 8:00 p.m., and Sunday, December 24 at 1:00 p.m., Nathaniel Watson will be the baritone soloist in Handel's Messiah at the Kennedy Center, Washington DC with the National Symphony and the Cathedral Choral Society, Kenneth Slowick, conducting. www.kennedy-center.org/nso

	Thomas Cooke and Herbert Burtis will continue their performances of Winterreise in the New Year, appearing in West Hartford, CT and Cleveland, OH. For more information contact roodhill@taconic.net

	Friday, January 19, 2007 at 8:00 p.m., Janet Brown, soprano, will appear in Jordan Hall at the New England Conservatory, Boston, MA, in John Harbison's A Flight into Egypt. For more information www.cantatasingers.org
	Sunday, January 28, 2007, at 3:00 p.m., Janet Brown, soprano, will be the soloist in Bach's Cantata 202 and Grant Cooper's A Song of Longing. For more information www.syracusesymphony.org

	Wednesday, February 7, 2007 at 8:00 p.m., Nathaniel Watson will be the baritone soloist in Ruth Fazal's Oratorio Terezin at North Fork Hall, Tilles Center for the Performing Arts at C. W. Post campus of Long Island University, Brookville, LI, NY.
	Thursday, February 8, 2007 at 8:00 p.m., Nathaniel Watson, baritone, will be the soloist in Ruth Fazal's Oratorio Terezin in Carnegie Hall in New York City. www.carnegiehall.org.

	Thursday, March 1, 2007 at 8:00 p.m., Nathaniel Watson will be the baritone soloist in Purcell's King Arthur at the Jack Singer Hall, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, with the Calgary Philharmonic. For information www.cpo-live.com/main/index.php.
	Sunday, March 25, 2007, Janet Brown, soprano, will be the soloist in Goethe Lieder and arias from The Astronaut's Tale both by Charles Fussell at the Longy School of Music, Cambridge, MA. For more information www.collagenewmusic.org.
	Sunday, March 25, 2007, Nathaniel Watson, baritone will be the soloist in Bach's St. Matthew Passion at St. George's Church, Guelph, ON, Canada, with the Elora Festival Singers and Orchestra, Noel Edison, conductor. For information www.elorafestival.com/festivalsingers2006.html.
	Friday and Saturday, March 30 and 31, 2007, at 8:00 pm Janet Brown, soprano, will be the soloist in Carmina Burana by Carl Orff with the Syracuse Symphony at the Syracuse Civic Center, Syracuse, NY. For more information www.syracusesymphony.org.

	Sunday, April 1, 2007, Nathaniel Watson, will be the baritone soloist in Bach's St. John Passion at the Winspear Center, Edmonton, AL, CA, with the Richard Eaton Singers, Leonard Ratzlaff, conductor. www.richardeatonsingers.com.
	Friday and Saturday, April 13 and 14, Janet Brown, soprano, will be the soloist in Orff's Carmina Burana and Grant Cooper's A Song of Longing at 8:00 p.m. at the Clay Center, Charleston, WV. For more information www.wvsymphony.org.
	Tuesday, April 24, 2007, Janet Brown, soprano will be the soloist in Haydn's Creation at Hendricks Chapel, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. For more information www.janbrown@syr.edu.
	Saturday, April 28, 2007 at 8:00 pm, Janet Brown will be the soprano soloist at Brandeis University, in Waltham, MA in Brahm's Ein Deutsche Requiem. For more information www.janbrown@syr.edu.

	Thursday, May 10, Friday May 11, Saturday, May 12 at 8:00 p.m., and Sunday, May 13 at 2:30 p.m., Nathaniel Watson will be the baritone soloist in Handel's Solomon at the Trinity-St. Paul's Centre, Toronto, ON, CA with Tafelmusik, Ivars Taurins, conducting. www.tafelmusik.org.


	Saturday, March 15, 2008, Nathaniel Watson will be the baritone soloist in Mahler's Symphony #8 at le Collisée de Québec with the Québec Symphony, Yoav Talmi, conductor, as part of the 400th Birthday Celebration of the City of Québec. www.osq.org/2006-2007/pages-eg/index.htm.