As our Chamber Music Workshop draws to a close the Festival gears up for a fantastic extended weekend of vocal music with our Choral Institute, July 19-22. Cantus is our ensemble-in-residence for this intensive, spirited choral experience. Our July 20 Cabaret features a lovely Green Lake area home, delectable hors d'oeuvres and marvelous soloists with Stephen Alltop at the piano. Read on...		Green Lake Festival of Music 2007 Season Widen Your Horizons
Cantus Cantus in concert All-male vocal ensemble Sun., July 22 3:15 p.m. Rodman Center for the Arts, Ripon College *** Choir, Orchestra & Soloists: Heaven & Earth** Gala concert with professional soloists and orchestra Sun., July 22 4 p.m. Rodman Center for the Arts, Ripon College Meet-the-artists reception follows the concert, sponsored by the Friends of the Festival Stephen Alltop, Director of GLF Choral Institute, July 19-22	Cantus (July 22): This nine-member ensemble tours widely and has been broadcast around the country through Public Radio International. They will perform music from such varied sources as a work by the pop artist Sting and Appalachian folk songs to Alice Parker and Lee Hoiby. Stephen Alltop (July 20, 22) has built a career based on excellence in several disciplines, conducting both orchestral and choral ensembles, and performing as a keyboard artist. This is his fourth year as Music Director of the Green Lake Festival Choral Institute. Mr. Alltop also serves as Music Director and Conductor of the Apollo Chorus of Chicago, has been on the conducting faculty at Northwestern University since 1992, and is Music Director of the Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra. As a keyboard soloist, Mr. Alltop performed concerti in the past season by Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, and Poulenc. He has appeared with numerous orchestras, including the Chicago Philharmonic, Chicago Sinfonietta, Omaha Symphony, and at the Ravinia Festival. As an orchestral and chamber musician, he has performed with the Chicago Chamber Musicians, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Joffrey Ballet, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Milwaukee Symphony, and the Peninsula Music Festival, where he has served as Associate Conductor since 1994. His recordings can be found on the Albany and Cedille labels. Soprano Kathleen and bass-baritone Peter Van De Graaff (Kathleen & Peter: July 20, Peter: July 22) have performed together and/or separately across the country and throughout the world. They were featured as part of a concert series in Japan, and gave the Asian premiere of Hasse’s intermezzo “Miride e Damari.” Other festivals and engagements include The International Music Festival of Costa Rica, The Grand Teton Music Festival, Manitou Music Festival, and the St. Louis Baroque Festival. Kathleen is currently a voice instructor at Lake Forest College. Peter is well known to Wisconsin audiences as the host of “Classical Music with Peter Van de Graaff,” broadcast throughout the U.S. by National Public Radio. In Europe, he performed and recorded a Mass by Jan Vorisek with the Czech State Symphony under Paul Freeman. He appeared in Berlin with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Schoenberg's Moses und Aron. In Budapest he sang with the Budapest Concert Orchestra in Verdi's Requiem and in Tel Aviv, the Israeli Chamber Orchestra joined him in a Mozart Mass. Conductors with whom he has worked include Pierre Boulez, Christopher Wilkins, Robert Page and Jane Glover. Tenor Calland Metts (July 20, 22) is enjoying a widely varied singing career. Mr. Metts has performed with Cleveland Opera, Marin Opera, Pamiro Opera and The Chicago Opera Theater in such roles as Ralph in Gilbert and Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore and Camille in Lehar’s The Merry Widow. In concert Metts has performed with the symphony orchestras of St. Louis, Milwaukee, Duluth-Superior, Pensacola, Walla Walla and Cheyenne, among others, in such works as Britten’s War Requiem and Orff’s Carmina Burana. Equally comfortable on the musical theater stage, Cal has played the Padre in The Man of LaMancha with Chicago’s Light Opera Works, Spelvin in Gershwin’s Strike up the Band with Lyric Opera Cleveland and Martin in A Grand Night for Singing with Cortland Repertory Theater in upstate New York. Most recently Cal worked as a clinician at the University of Minnesota-Duluth and has performed as Luiz in Light Opera Works' The Gondaliers. Soprano Amanda Majeski (July 20, 22) is currently pursuing her Masters degree at the Curtis Institute of Music. She received her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University in 2006, where she was seen as Tatyana/Eugene Onegin, and Lauretta/Gianni Schicchi, and was a soloist in Rossini’s Stabat Mater, Handel’s Solomon, and Dvorak’s Te Deum. In May 2006, she performed at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theatre as part of the Conservatory Project for developing and presenting young talent. Ms. Majeski has been a Young Artist with Opera Theatre of St. Louis for the past two seasons and has also been featured with the Chautauqua Institution, Peninsula Music Festival and the Green Lake Festival of Music (in 2006). She has received numerous awards and will make her Weill Hall recital debut in January of 2008, under the auspices of the Marilyn Horne Foundation.	Members of the Festival Choir, from throughout Wisconsin and the U.S., spend four days in workshops and intensive rehearsals in preparation for the Choral Celebration concert. The program is open to all interested adult singers with previous choral experience. Exceptional high school students may be accepted upon audition. Choir rehearsal Alltop conducts the 2006 Institute Choir, GLFM Choral Finale, Demmer Hall, Rodman Center for the Arts, Ripon College Calland Metts and Amanda Majeski sing a duet while Peter Van De Graaff awaits his cue – 2006 GLFM Choral Finale, Demmer Hall, Rodman Center for the Arts, Ripon College UPCOMING EVENTS: Fri., July 20 Come to the Cabaret! Broadway and cabaret songs sung by Amanda Majeski, Calland Metts and Peter and Kathleen Van De Graaff with Stephen Alltop on the piano. In a splendid Green Lake area home, 5-8 p.m. Call the Festival office for details: 800-662-7097. Sun., July 22 Special Choral Double-Feature Cantus, renowned choral ensemble, 3:15 pm Choir, Orchestra & Soloists: Heaven & Earth, 4 pm Rodman Center for the Arts, Ripon College
AVAILABLE THIS SUNDAY: The recording of our July 10 concert, the famed Beethoven Triple Concerto (and More!) is ready for purchase! The CD features the "Triple" performed by the Amelia Piano Trio with a chamber orchestra of students from our workshop, recorded and engineered by Ripon's Thin Ice Productions.	Click Tickets to order tickets for Green Lake Festival concerts ! NOTE: Full-season subscriptions are good for concerts only. Special events such as the Russian dinner or the Cabaret are not included and must be purchased separately. Call the office for details: 800-662-7097. RESERVED SEATING The Green Lake Festival of Music would like to remind all season subscribers that we have special reserved seating at our concerts which will be held until 10 minutes before concert time when we'll open this seating to the general audience. Please make sure to take advantage of the special seating if you have purchased season tickets. There will be signs at all venues denoting the reserved seating area. If you have questions, Festival staff can assist you. We hope you have an enjoyable time at all of our concerts! www.greenlakefestival.org	Chamber Music Workshop success! The Green Lake Festival's Chamber Music Workshop ran from June 30-July 13. The workshop, led by the Amelia Piano Trio, features extremely talented strings and piano students from high school through graduate school. This was the Festival's largest turnout yet, with 28 participants from - literally - coast to coast (Oregon to Connecticut). While workshop leader Anthea Kreston might say this every year, she claims it's "the best group ever!" Stay tuned for news updates about these up-and-coming stars! 2007 GLF Chamber Music Workshop Participants at Thrasher Opera House