Summer Concert Series: Sylvia Stoner & Noah Palmer

In partnership with Summer Sonatina, The Bennington Center for the Arts is excited to present a five-week midsummer concert series. Friday, July 14 welcomes Sylvia Stoner and Noah Palmer, performing a program titled "Wonder Women: Sounds of Superwomen from Myth and Music" which will include selections from Schubert and Wolf to Poulenc and Satie to Copland and Bernstein. Soprano Sylvia Stoner has performed across the country in opera and theater including at the Des Moines Metro Opera, Shreveport Opera, Opera Omaha, Union Avenue Opera, Kentucky Opera, Lake George Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Kansas Concert Opera and the Kansas City Puccini Festival. She has performed various chamber works including Resphigi’s Il Tramonto in Italy with Orvieto Musica, as well as contemporary classical with the NewEar Ensemble, and early music with the Spencer Consort. She most recently was the soprano soloist in the “Dona Nobis Pacem” by Vaughan Williams with the Battenkill Chorale Chorale, and in Beethoven’s “Mass in C” with the Skidmore Chorus, and performed “Knoxville: Summer of 1915” with the Skidmore Orchestra. Most recently she created and performed the role of Emily Dickinson in a new work of music-theatre called “Sister—Show me Eternity” which premiered in upstate New York and toured in Nebraska, and will be performed in Minnesota this fall. She was a regional winner of the National Council Auditions for the Metropolitan Opera, and a finalist in the Marcella Sembrich competition, the Naftzger and NATS competitions. Acting credits include the national tour of Terence McNally’s MARIA CALLAS: MASTERCLASS, as well as productions with the Kansas City Repertory Theater, the New Theatre, the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre, Starlight Theater, and Quality Hill Playhouse. She obtained her Doctorate of Musical Arts Degree with honors in vocal performance at the University of Kansas and is currently the Artist-in-Residence in Voice at Skidmore College. www.sylviastoner.com Acclaimed conductor and pianist Noah Palmer will accompany Ms. Stoner for this program. Mr. Palmer is the Artistic Director of the Northern Berkshire Chorale in Williamstown, Massachusetts and accompanist for Albany Pro Musica, the Capital Region’s leading choral ensemble. He is also Musical Assistant for the Broad St Chorale and Orchestra in Kinderhook, NY. As a choral conductor he has led, among other groups, the Sage Singers and the Vermont Symphony Orchestra Chorus. He has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in the United States, Europe, and China. The theater will open at 7:30pm and all concerts will begin at 8pm. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door, children 12 and under are admitted for free. Tickets may be purchased by calling the Bennington Center for the Arts: 802-442-7158. www.thebennington.org