Sunday, March 16, 5 PM: Doremus Scudder, Bass-Baritone and Nathalie Fortin, Pianist: Wandering - Solitude - Impermanence, A Song Recital

Suggested Donation $10 at the door

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Sunday Afternoon Songs

Doremus Scudder – Bass-baritone Nathalie Fortin – Piano

Program

Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828)

Der Wanderer  (G. P. Schmidt von Lübeck)

Der Einsame  (Carl Lappe)

Greisengesang  (Friedrich Rückert)

Die Forelle  (C. F. D. Schubart)

Jacques Ibert (1890 – 1962)

Chansons de Don Quichotte

I. Chanson du départ  (Pierre de Ronsard)

II. Chanson à Dulcinée  (Alexandre Arnoux)

III. Chanson de duc  (Alexandre Arnoux)

IV. Chanson de la mort de Don Quichotte  (Alexandre Arnoux)

Hugo Wolf (1860 – 1903)

Michelangelo-Lieder

German Texts: Walter Heinrich Robert-Tornow after Michelangelo Buonarroti

I. Wohl denk ich oft

II. Alles endet, was entstehet

III. Fühlt meine Seele

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 – 1958)

Four songs from Songs of Travel

Texts by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Vagabond

The Roadside Fire

Whither Shall I Wander

Bright is the Ring of Words

Doremus began voice training in undergraduate school. Singing quickly eclipsed piano studies

and led to graduate work in voice. In 1988 he moved to Vienna, Austria to study Lied and

oratorio at the renowned Vienna Academy and opera with Carol Blaikner-Mayo and Gino Bechi

in Florence, Italy. He holds a DMA in vocal performance from the University of Oregon.

His repertoire includes leading roles in Don Giovanni, Le Nozze di Figaro, Tosca, and Don

Pasquale, many concert works, among them the Brahms and Mozart Requiems, Handel's

Messiah, and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, and an extensive song repertoire. He has sung and

recorded much contemporary music, including three world premieres.

Until 2018 he taught voice and specialty choirs at the Performing Academy, Vienna. After 30

years in Europe, he has relocated to Eugene, Oregon where he is active in the arts community as

a performer and teacher. He is also active as a fine-art black-and-white photographer.

Nathalie Fortin

Nathalie Fortin was born in Montreal, Canada. She holds degrees from the Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal, Eastman School of Music, and University of Southern California. Locally, she has performed with the Oregon Bach Festival, Eugene Opera, Eugene Symphony, Chamber Music Amici, Ballet Fantastique, the Oregon Mozart Players, and for a number of productions at the Shedd Institute for the Arts with artist Siri Vik. She currently does collaborative work with the University of Oregon’s School of Music and Dance, Eugene Vocal Arts, the Eugene Gleemen, and co-produces COVID-era outdoor concerts with soprano Laura Wayte.