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CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON PRESENTS
SOPRANO MEASHA BRUEGGERGOSMAN
IN HER BOSTON RECITAL DEBUT
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, AT NEC’s JORDAN HALL

(BOSTON)—Celebrity Series of Boston, Martha H. Jones, President and Executive Director, presents the Boston recital debut of soprano MEASHA BRUGGERGOSMAN at NEC’s Jordan Hall on Saturday, November 10 at
8:00 p.m. Ms. Brueggergosman is accompanied by pianist Roger Vignoles on a program featuring works by Britten, Rorem, Schoenberg, Poulenc, Satie, and Bolcom. Full program information is listed below.

Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman has emerged as one of today’s most magnificent performers and vibrant personalities. She is critically acclaimed by the international press as much for her innate musicianship and voluptuous voice as for a sovereign stage presence far beyond her years. Her extraordinary versatility and intuitive musicality have yielded an exclusive recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon. Her first recording on the label, Surprise, releases in North America in October 2007.

Ms. Brueggergosman appears with many of today’s finest international orchestras and most esteemed conductors during the 2007-2008 season. Her performances include Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the National Arts Centre Orchestra led by Pinchas Zukerman and the National Symphony Orchestra led by Leonard Slatkin, Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass with Michael Tilson Thomas for her London Symphony Orchestra debut, Berlioz’s
Les nuits d’été with the NDR Hannover Orchestra led by Vasily Petrenko, and Messiaen’s Poèmes pour Mi with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra led by David Robertson. Also during the 2007-2008 season
Ms. Brueggergosman brings a program featuring songs by Bolcom, Satie, and Schoenberg among others, to many of North America’s major cultural centers including venues in Boston, Chicago, New York, Toronto, and Washington DC, as well as to numerous cities in Brazil, the United Kingdom, and Spain.

Ms. Brueggergosman is a Canadian Goodwill Ambassador for three international organizations: African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF), Learning Through the Arts, and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Her commitments to these organizations have taken her on a broad spectrum of missions - from primary schools in New Brunswick, Canada to internally displaced persons camps of northern Uganda.

Ms. Brueggergosman has been the subject of a full-length feature documentary, Spirit in her Voice, aired by the CBC network, and has starred in numerous independent short films including Go Diva! and Infinite Dream. She has served as television hostess of the Toronto Variety Show and has taken center stage in Bravo! Canada’s Gemini Award-winning concert series Live at the Rehearsal Hall, performing a mixed selection of classical repertoire, gospel hymns, and jazz standards. Ms. Brueggergosman joined an illustrious panel of celebrity judges on the Idol Underground competition, an artist driven alter-ego of the American Idol and Canadian Idol brand, and appeared as a special celebrity guest on television episodes of The Surreal Gourmet, Opening Night, Bathroom Divas, and Bravo Arts & Minds.

In 2002 Ms. Brueggergosman was awarded the Grand Prize at the Jeunesses Musicales Montreal International Competition. She has also been a prizewinner at The Dutch International Vocal Competition, The Queen Sonja International Music Competition in Oslo, and the ARD Music Competition in Munich. Additionally, she is a recipient of the prestigious Canada Council and Chalmers Performing Arts Grants. She studied at the University of Toronto with Mary Morrison and pursued postgraduate studies in Germany with Edith Wiens, and has worked with such distinguished musicians as Christoph Eschenbach, Ruth Falcon, Brigitte Fassbaender, Margo Garrett, Håkan Hagegård, Jessye Norman, Rudolf Piernay, and Thomas Quasthoff.

PROGRAM INFORMATION
Saturday, November 10 at 8:00 PM
Jordan Hall
MEASHA BRUEGGERGOSMAN, Soprano
Roger Vignoles, Piano

BRITTEN
Cabaret Songs
Calypso
Johnny
Tell me the truth about love
Funeral Blues

ROREM
Early in the morning
Ferry me across the water
For Poulenc

SCHOENBERG
From Brettl-Lieder
Galathea
Gigerlette
Der genügsame Liebhaber
Manhnung
Arie aus dem Spiegel von Arcadien

POULENC
Hôtel, F.P. 107, no. 2
L’Anguille, F.P. 58, no. 1
Violon, F.P. 101, no. 5
C’est ainsi que tu es, F.P. 121
Voyage à Paris, F.P. 107, no. 4

BOLCOM
George
The Total Stranger in the Garden
Amor

SATIE
Daphénéo
La Diva de l’Empire

TICKETING INFORMATION
Tickets, priced at $46, $41, and $36, are available by calling CelebrityCharge at (617) 482-6661 (Monday-Friday 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.), online at www.celebrityseries.org, or at the Jordan Hall box office, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston.

About Celebrity Series of Boston
Celebrity Series of Boston is New England's leading presenter of music, dance, and the performing arts from around the world. Founded in 1938, the Series incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation in 1989. Each year, the Celebrity Series brings to Boston's major concert halls performances by instrumental and vocal soloists, symphony orchestras, chamber ensembles, dance companies, jazz and popular music performers, folk and ethnic performance groups, and other performing artists. The Celebrity Series' Arts, Education and Community program was initiated in 1984. The program reaches thousands of students annually in Boston area schools and communities. The program includes the award-winning AileyCamp Boston, a six-week summer dance program for Boston middle school students, and ACT 2, an after-school initiative for former participants of AileyCamp Boston. For more information on Celebrity Series of Boston, call (617) 482-2595 or visit us online at www.celebrityseries.org.

The Celebrity Series receives major annual support from two anonymous donors; The Little Family Foundation; The Susanne Marcus Collins Foundation; Bank of America; The Linde Family Foundation; Tufts Health Plan; Talbots Charitable Foundation; Foley & Lardner LLP; Charlesbank Capital Partners; Comcast; Morgan Stanley; BDO Seidman; PTC; Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Foundation; Steven and Joan Belkin Foundation; Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; The Consolate General of Canada; The Collings Foundation; The Esther B. Kahn Charitable Foundation; The Red Sox Foundation; Massachusetts Cultural Council; National Endowment for the Arts; New England Foundation for the Arts; Catherine and Paul Buttenwieser Foundation; The Harris A. Berman and Ruth E. Nemzoff Family Foundation; Amy and Joshua Boger; DeMoulas Foundation; Margaret Eagle and Eli Rapaport; Kathleen and Steven Haley; Cerise and Charles Jacobs; Paul L. King; Jann E. Leeming and Arthur D. Little; Paul F. and Barbara A. Levy; Frank and Eleanor Pao; Spring Sirkin and Arthur Frank; Dorothy and Stephen Weber; Nancy Richmond Winsten and Dr. Joseph Winsten; Charles O. Wood, III and Miriam M. Wood; Ellen and Arnold Zetcher.

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