Poet's Love
March 7th, 2025
7:30 PM
Christ United Methodist Church
March 7th, 2025
7:30 PM
Christ United Methodist Church
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Featuring
Scott Brunscheen, tenor Casey Rafn, pianist Program To Be Announced |
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Scott J. Brunscheen’s “sweet and substantial lyric tenor” (Chicago Tribune) has garnered acclaim in operatic and oratorio repertoire of the baroque, classical, and contemporary eras. Pianist Casey Rafn enjoys a varied career as a collaborative
pianist both in the United States, Europe and Latin America. Together the two artists will perform, among other works, Schumann’s Dichterliebe, which tells the story of a young man rejected in love, who comes to terms with his loss through reconciliation and forgiveness.
pianist both in the United States, Europe and Latin America. Together the two artists will perform, among other works, Schumann’s Dichterliebe, which tells the story of a young man rejected in love, who comes to terms with his loss through reconciliation and forgiveness.
Scott Brunscheen
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Scott J. Brunscheen’s “sweet and substantial lyric tenor” (Chicago Tribune) has garnered acclaim in operatic and oratorio repertoire of the baroque, classical, and contemporary eras. A frequent guest soloist with Haymarket Opera, his recent performances of Handel's La resurrezione, Caccini’s La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina, Haydn’s L’isola
disabitata, Marais’ Ariane et Bachus, and Cesti’s L’Orontea received praise from Opera News, Chicago Tribune, Wall Street Journal, and Chicago Classical Review. He recently made his Kennedy Center debut under the baton of Christophe Rousset and direction of Catherine Turocy in the acclaimed modern premier of Mouret's Les Fêtes de Thalie with Opera Lafayette. Other operatic engagements have included the world premiere of Stewart Copeland’s The Invention of Morel at Chicago Opera Theater, Mozart’s Die Zauberflote with Madison Opera, Purcell’s The Fairy Queen at Long Beach Opera and Chicago Opera Theater, Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites and Donizetti’s La Favorite at the Caramoor Festival, Britten’s The Turn of the Screw and The Rape of Lucretia with Chicago Fringe Opera, and Rossini’s La Cenerentola with the Lyric Opera of Chicago Lyric Unlimited series. Mr. Brunscheen also understudied and performed in Donizetti's La Fille du Regiment, Puccini’s Tosca, and Heggie's Dead Man Walking (Madison Opera); Glass’ The Fall of the House of Usher, Rossini's Mose in Egitto, Cavalli's Giasone, and Die Zauberflote (Chicago Opera Theater); Chin’s Alice in Wonderland and Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd (Opera Theater of St. Louis); Rossini’s Guillaume Tell and Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia (Caramoor Bel Canto Festival); Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia and La Cenerentola and Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Candid Concert Opera); and Mozart's Don Giovanni with Opera New Jersey. Outside of his work in opera, Scott has been the tenor soloist throughout the country for Orff’s Carmina Burana, Handel's The Messiah and Judas Maccabaeus, Mozart's Requiem, Haydn's The Creation, Pergolesi’s Magnificat, Bach's Magnificat, Resphigi's Lauda per la Natività, Mendelssohn's Elijah, Britten' Serenade and Canticles, and cantatas of Bach, Buxtehude, and Rameau. He can be heard on an album of Agostino Steffani duets "A son tres- humble service"; released on Musica Omnia. |
Casey Rafn
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Pianist Casey Rafn enjoys a varied career as a collaborative pianist both in the United States and abroad, in Europe and Latin America. He is a member of Trés, whose saxophone-piano trio was nominated for a Latin Grammy for Best Instrumental Album for their album Romance al Campesino Porteño. Casey is the accompanist for VocalEssence and often collaborates in concert or recordings with members of the Minnesota Orchestra, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and University of Minnesota School of Music faculty. As a piano soloist he took top prizes at the International Liszt-Garrison Competition in Baltimore, has appeared with the Duluth-Superior Symphony Orchestra, and has taught at both the University of Minnesota School of Music and the St. Paul Conservatory for Performing Arts.
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