An Evening Featuring
Stephen Tosh, Theresa Turner and Art Schuller
An evening of incredible music is in store at 7 p.m., February 25 in Room 5001 of the Cuesta College North County Campus. Featured artists will be Stephen Tosh, composer, performer, and musical director, Theresa Turner, soprano, and Art Schuller, bass.
Included are three baroque pieces and four sets of solo songs in French and English encompassing opera, classical and modern art songs.
Tosh’s professional experience began at the age of ten with the U.C.L.A. Opera Workshop. Afterwards he studied at the Julliard School of Music as a composing major. Since that time, he has performed professionally on the piano and organ, plus worked as a musical director, composer and arranger of music for films, television, commercials, and theatrical productions. He also has worked as an instructor for Cabrillo College, Cuesta College, and the York School in Monterey and was a composer in residence at Hartnell College, Hidden Valley, and York School.
Locally, besides his teaching at Cuesta College, he has served as musical director with Pioneer Players, Pismo Light Opera Theatre (PLOT), and other organizations. He has also performed locally on the piano and organ.
Turner has sang professionally for ten years. Among the companies she performed with were the Greater Miami Opera, Miami Philharmonic, and Indianapolis Opera. Her roles included Marguerite in Gounod’s “Faust,” Nedda in Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci,” and Violetta in Verdi’s “La Traviata.” She then took a different path into the world of business, but Cheryl Anderson’s Opera Work Shop at Cabrillo College drew her back to music, rekindling her love of singing.
Schuller has performed as soloist with Cantiamo!, Ensemble Monterey, I Cantori de Carmel, the Monterey Symphony, the Santa Cruz Symphony, and Pocket Opera of San Francisco. Appearances include the parts of Jesus in Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion”, Elijah in Mendelssohn’s “Oratorio,” Il Commendatore in Mozart’s “Don Giovanni,” Sarastro in Mozart’s “Magic Flute” and solos in Dvorak’s “Stabat Mater,” Handel’s “Messiah,” Monteverdi’s “Vespro Della beata Vergine” (1610), Mozart’s “Requiem,” and Poulenc’s “Le Bal Masque.” He has presented recitals in Carmel, Santa Cruz, Denver and Minneapolis. He is also a member of Cantiamo! and is a soloist at the First Congregational Church in Santa Cruz. He currently resides in Salinas with his wife, Jane.
Project Theatre Foundation is a non-profit organization representing the collaboration of dedicated local citizens and performing and visual arts organizations to meet the need for a theatre arts complex on the Cuesta College North County Campus, provide a showcase for theatre and art, and to encourage awareness and opportunity in the arts for the entire community.
Tickets for this special evening sponsored by Project Theatre Foundation, a non-profit organization, are $10 and may be obtained by calling 591-6220.
Tickets will also be available at the door. However, due to the size of Room 5001 on the North County Campus of Cuesta College, seating is limited, and because of the nature of the program, no one will be seated until intermission.