Isabel Leonard
Vlad Iftinca

Performers

• Isabel Leonard, Mezzo-Soprano
• Vlad Iftinca, Piano

Program

• DE FALLA " El pan de Ronda que sabe a verdad"
• VALVERDE SANJUÁN "Clavelitos"
• GARCÍA LORCA "Los Pelegrinitos"
• DE FALLA "Preludios: Madres, todas las noches"
• GARCÍA LORCA "Nana de Sevilla"
• GRANADOS "Gracia mía"
• DE FALLA "Oración de las madres que tienen a sus hijos en brazos"
• MOMPOU "Sólo las flores sobre ti"
• DE FALLA "Olas gigantes"
• MONTSALVATGE Canciónes negras
  ·· Cuba dentro de un piano
  ·· Punto de Habañera
  ·· Chévere
  ·· Canción de cuña para dormir a un negrito
  ·· Canto negro
• JENNIFER HIGDON "Hop & Toe Dance" (NY Premiere)
• WILLIAM SCHUMAN "God's World"
• GLEN ROVEN "Wild Nights" (World Premiere)
• CHARLES "When I have sung my songs"
• IVES "Two Little Flowers"
• CARPENTER "The sleep that flits on baby's eyes"
• IVES "When stars are in the quiet skies"
• GUETTEL "How can I lose you?"
• RICHARD HAGEMAN "Do not go, my love"
• ROREM "What if some little pain"
• PORTER Where, oh where"
• BEN MOORE "I want to go with the one I love" (World Premiere)

Encores:
• ROSSINI Canzonetta spagnuola
• OFFENBACH Air de la Lettre ("O mon cher amant") from La Périchole
• BERNSTEIN "Somewhere" from West Side Story

Bios

• Isabel Leonard

  
  Isabel Leonard continues to make waves in the world of classical music both at home in the US and abroad. In the 2012-2013 season, Metropolitan Opera audiences hear Ms. Leonard in two role debuts: as Miranda in Thomas Adès's The Tempest and as Blanche in Poulenc's Les dialogues des Carmélites. She also dazzled New York audiences with her Rosina in the English version of Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia. This season also marked Ms. Leonard's house and role debut with the Canadian Opera Company as Sesto in Christopher Alden's production of Mozart's La clemenza di Tito. 
  
  Ms. Leonard is featured in a North American recital tour this season, beginning with the University of Notre Dame, and followed by performances at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, San Francisco Performances series, and Atlanta's Spivey Hall.
  
  On the concert stage, Ms. Leonard will be the featured soloist in Mahler's Symphony No. 4 and Berlioz's Les nuits d'été with The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. She will close the season with Metropolitan Opera concerts in New York City parks, and with performances at the Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto in Japan, where she will star in the title role in L'enfant et les sortilèges and as Concepcion in Ravel's L'heure espagnol with Seiji Ozawa conducting.
  
  Ms. Leonard is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including the Beverly Sills Artist Award (2011), The Richard F. Gold Career Grant of The Shoshana Foundation (2007), Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation Award (2006), the William Schuman Prize of The Juilliard School (2006), Makiko Narumi Memorial Fund prize of The Juilliard School (2005), Marilyn Horne Foundation Award of the Music Academy of the West (2005), and the first prize of the Giulio Gari Foundation Competition (2005).

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• Vlad Iftinca

  
  Vlad Iftinca is currently part of the 2012-2013 Metropolitan Opera music staff roster and is also the staff music coach for the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. He also serves on the collaborative piano faculty at the Mannes College The New School For Music in New York City, and on the staff of the Renatto Scotto Opera Academy in Westchester. Born in Romania, he received his primary education at Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía. Mr. Iftinca has collaborated with distinguished singers such as Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Deborah Voigt, Hei-Kyung Hong, Thomas Hampson, Luca Pisaroni, and Shenyang. Recital performances include appearances at the 2011 Beijing International Music Festival, Alice Tully Hall, Los Angeles Opera, Seoul Performing Arts Center, Hong Kong Arts Festival, The University of Utah's Virtuoso Series, the Ravinia Festival's Rising Stars recital series, and the Regina Resnik Presents   series in San Francisco and New York. At the Metropolitan Opera, he has worked under prestigious conductors such as James Levine, Joseph Colaneri, Maurizio Benini, Sir Andrew Davis, Valery Gergiev, David Robertson, and Marco Armiliato.
  
  Recent engagements include performances on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's concert series with baritone Thomas Hampson and his conducting debut with The Juilliard School's productions of Rossini's La cambiale di matrimonio and La scala di seta. Upcoming engagements include the Opera on the Avalon festival in Canada; Samling Foundation Master Classes in the United Kingdom; workshops in Mexico City; and recitals in Atlanta, Boston, and New York with Isabel Leonard.

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