Dr. Philip Hoch, organist with Erin Wood, soprano! (Music starts at 8 pm.)

PROGRAM

Part I

“Ahimè! dove trascorsi! ... Che farò senza Euridice” from Orfeo ed Euridice (1762)

Christoph Willibald Gluck

Chanson perpétuelle, opus 37 (1898)

Ernest Chausson

The Little Horses

Zion’s Walls

Simple Gifts

from Old American Songs (1950-52)

Aaron Copland

“Měsíčku na nebi hlubokém” (Song to the Moon)

from the opera Rusalka (1901)

Antonín Dvořák

Erin Wood, soprano

Philip Hoch, organ

Part II

Choral no. 1 in E Major

César Franck

Floe

from Glassworks

Philip Glass

transcribed by Philip Hoch

Concerto in D Minor, RV 565 (BWV 596)

Antonio Vivaldi

transcribed by Johann Sebastian Bach

Philip Hoch, organ

BIOGRAPHIES

Philip Hoch is a rising concert organist, chorister, and educator from the Inland Empire region of Southern California. Philip started organ lessons with his grandmother, Dr. Olga Schmidt, at the age of five. He later studied under world-renowned organist Dr. Frederick Swann at the University of Redlands, where he earned his bachelor of music (2016) and master of music (2018) degrees in organ performance. He was a two-time recipient of the President’s Honor Recital (2016 and 2017), where he performed a recital in the presence of the University’s president. He was a finalist for the School of Music’s Concerto Competition in 2016 after performing Francis Poulenc’s Concerto for Organ and Orchestra from memory. He was inducted into the elite music honor society, Pi Kappa Lambda, in 2016, in recognition of his academic excellence and service to the School of Music. Philip went on to earn a doctor of musical arts degree (DMA) in December of 2021 at the Herb Alpert School of Music at UCLA, studying under Dr. Christoph Bull. In his dissertation, Transcribing Philip Glass’s Glassworks: Historiography, Case Study, Methodology, Dr. Hoch reevaluates and investigates contemporary practices for organ transcription, offering a compelling perspective through minimalist works. His dissertation study discloses a thorough methodology for creating an organ transcription of Philip Glass’s Glassworks, which premiered in May 2021 at FCCLA. Dr. Hoch serves as organist at Shepherd's Grove Presbyterian Church (Hour of Power with Bobby Schuller) in Irvine, CA, where services are internationally broadcasted on Trinity Broadcasting Network to millions of viewers each week. He currently serves as Artist Teacher of Organ, University Organist, and Visiting Assistant Professor of Music History at the University of Redlands Conservatory of Music.

California native ERIN WOOD’s portrayals of Verdi and Wagner heroines have received praise for her “soaring soprano”, her “immense voice full of grit at the bottom and transcendent radiance at the top” and her “volcanic outpouring of sound”. For Lyric Opera of Chicago, Ms. Wood has portrayed Sieglinde in Die Walküre, Lisa in Pikovaya Dama, Gutrune/Third Norn in Götterdämmerung as well as 9 other roles since her tenure with their Ryan Opera Center. She has been seen as Amelia in Un Ballo in Maschera with San Francisco Opera and Opera Colorado, and proudly joined the roster of the Metropolitan Opera for Die Walküre. She has been featured with the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, Anchorage Opera, Opera Pacific, Opera Grand Rapids, Toledo Opera, the Grant Park and Ravinia Music Festivals, as well as the Milwaukee, Macon, Bakersfield, Pacific and Lake Forest Symphonies. Concert engagements include Verdi Requiem with the London Symphony Chorus, concert performances of Wagner Wesendonck Lieder, Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Mahler Fourth Symphony, Brahms Requiem, Strauss Vier letzte Lieder, Handel Messiah, Beethoven Ninth Symphony and Humperdinck Hänsel und Gretel. Awards include the George London Foundation’s Kirsten Flagstad Award for up-and-coming Wagnerian singers, and she was finalist at the Lauritz Melchior International Singing Competition for Wagnerian Singers in Aalborg, Denmark. Ms. Wood is an alumna of UCLA, is seen weekly on Hour of Power with Bobby Schuller and is a member of the El Camino College voice faculty.

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Plans

Sep 24: Jonas Jan, pianist

Oct 1: Christa Stevens, lyric soprano with Miles Veljkovic, pianist

Oct 9: Bennie Fried, cellist

Oct 15: Jacopo Giacopuzzi, pianist

Oct 22: Victor Shlyakhtenko, pianist

Oct 28: Joseph Simms, organist

Nov 4: Arsen Jamkotchian, pianist

Nov 11: Nick Galinaitis, pianist

Nov 19: Martin Leung, pianist

Dec 11: Chris Maldonado, pianist

Jan 8: Hermione Wise, soprano with Greg Schreiner, pianist

Jan 27: Michael Crane, pianist