Hudson Chorale Winter Concert: Maestro Ira Spaulding, a chorus of 60 singers, a 35-piece orchestra and four guest soloists perform Haydn, Beethoven and Mozart. The program includes Haydn’s Missa in tempori belli (Mass in Time of War), Beethoven’s Mass in C, and Mozart’s little jewel Ave Verum Corpus.
Guest soloists:
Jessica Kimple – Mezzo-Soprano: Jessica was a resident artist with Dicapo Opera Theatre for three years and has sung with numerous opera companies in New York including the extra chorus at The Metropolitan Opera.
Nils Neubert – Tenor: is a sought-after interpreter of song, oratorio, opera, and chamber music and has appeared as a soloist and small ensemble singer throughout North America and Europe. Nils Neubert holds degrees from the Juilliard School (BM, Voice), Teachers College, Columbia University (MA, Music and Music Education), and the CUNY Graduate Center (DMA, Performance). He also trained at the Mozarteum, Bel Canto at Caramoor, the Scuola Leonardo da Vinci, the UMass Amherst Arts Extension Service, and the Harvard Extension School, and is an alumnus of the Walnut Hill School for the Arts and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute.
Jonathan Woody – Bass-baritone: Mr. Woody has been featured with historically-informed orchestras such as Apollo’s Fire, Boston Early Music Festival, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Bach Collegium San Diego, Portland Baroque Orchestra, and New York Baroque Incorporated, earning praise as “charismatic,” “riveting,” and “wonderfully dramatic.”
Jianing Zhang – Soprano: Soprano Jianing Zhang was described by Opera News as “particularly affecting in the role of Servillia, with sensitive singing and alert, in-the-moment acting” when she performed in Mozart’s last opera, La Clemenza di Tito.