The MIT Chamber Chorus under the direction of William Cutter and accompanied by Karen Harvey on piano present a concert with oboist Daniel Stackhouse and tenor Eiji Miura. The program titled Mid-Winter Songs will feature works by Lauridsen, Fine, Effinger, Finzi, Vaughan Williams, Barber, and a work by MIT graduate student composer, Peter Chamberlain.
About the Artists
Tenor Eiji Miura, a native of San Francisco, currently resides in the Boston area. He is active in the local music scene and is an interpreter of a variety of styles and genres of music including musical theater, opera, contemporary music and sacred music. Most recent credits include The Wild Party by LaChiusa, Iphigenie en Tauride by Glück, L'italiana in Algeri by Rossini and Die Zauberflöte by Mozart. Upcoming engagements include this performance as a featured soloist with the MIT Chamber Chorus and a performance as Tenor Soloist in Händel's Messiah at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Brookline.
Mr. Miura is a recent graduate of The Boston Conservatory where he received a Master of Music in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy.
Daniel Stackhouse is a classically-trained orchestral and chamber musician with broad experience performing rock, jazz and various forms of traditional folk music on the oboe. A native of the White Mountains of New Hampshire, he has collaborated with many talented musicians from the Portland, Boston and New York areas.
Daniel has commissioned and premiered several pieces by up and coming composers such as Sid Richardson and NY percussionist Kevin Norton. He gave a recital in collaboration with esteemed pianist, Andrei Baumann, in September of 2012. In 2014 he performed as principal oboe in a recording of Tom Oboe Lee’s “La Serenissima” and has performed with numerous orchestras in the greater Boston area. He has been a member of the band, Junco, since 2010 and has recorded and performed with the group throughout Western Maine and New Hampshire. Recently, Daniel was a fellow at the International Lyric Academy’s Tuscia Opera Festival where he served as principal oboist. The orchestra, conducted by Stefano Vignati, performed in various cities in the Lazio region of Italy. While in Italy he also performed with the Wuhan Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of conductor James P. Liu.
Stackhouse has extensive pedagogical experience, having spent four summers as oboe faculty at Camp Encore/Coda in Sweden, Maine. Daniel currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts where he maintains a private oboe studio. He received his bachelor’s degree in Oboe Performance from The Boston Conservatory in 2014 and is currently studying with Amanda Hardy at the Boston Conservatory as a master’s student.
Karen Harvey enjoys a multi-faceted career as an accomplished pianist, composer and conductor. She is a two-time recipient of fellowships to the Tanglewood Music Center, and has been a featured soloist with numerous New England orchestras. While a member of the Griffin Music Ensemble, Ms. Harvey premiered dozens of chamber and solo compositions, including several written for her; describing her solo recital of twentieth century piano music at the Wang Center, Josiah Fisk of the Boston Herald wrote: “...brilliant work by pianist with an infinite supply of fingers.”
In demand as a collaborative artist, Ms. Harvey has appeared and made recordings with The Spectrum Singers, The Zamir Chorale, the Orpheus Singers, Chorus Pro Musica, andThe Cantata Singers, including a performance of Donald Sur’s Slavery Documents at Symphony Hall. She has served as pianist for the Boston Pops Holiday Chorus and Boston Ballet Company, and has performed live on WGBH Radio.
Ms. Harvey is an Affiliate Artist at M.I.T., Music Director for the SRO Players of Lowell and for several years directed the Holiday Chorus at Faneuil Hall Marketplace. As Minister of Music at the United Church of Christ in Norwell since 1994, she directs five choirs of various ages in an active and growing ministry which includes mentoring amateur musicians, writing and arranging music for many occasions and producing Christmas concerts which attract an audience of one thousand people annually. In May of 2012, the UCC Sanctuary (adult) Choir performed the premiere of Mark Hayes’ Requiem as part of a 200-voice ensemble at Lincoln Center in New York, and this past October, Ms. Harvey and the Sanctuary Choir traveled to Rome to perform its European premiere as part of the Festival Internazionale Di Musica E Arte Sacra at St. Ignatius Church. While in Rome, Ms. Harvey also conducted a multi-choir ensemble during Mass at the Vatican.
Ms. Harvey has recorded two solo piano CDs featuring repertoire from her Advent Musical Meditation Series, and is preparing a third CD of hymn arrangements for Lent; her compositions have been published by Transcontinental Music.