Dvořák in Georgetown

Saturday, May 30 and
Thursday June 4 -
Sunday June 7, 2009

Art in the Park will take place in October, 2009

Dates TBA

Georgetown Festival of the Arts
P.O. Box 846
Georgetown, TX 78627

Tel 512.639.0443

E-mail tickets@gtownfestival.org

Alan Houtchens is an authority on the life and times of Antonín Dvořák, and also has written numerous articles about other Czech composers and Czech culture in general. On the music faculty at Texas A&M University since 1989, Dr. Houtchens holds degrees in musicology and French horn performance from the University of Colorado, the University of Wyoming, and the University of California, Santa Barbara. Currently he is engaged as chief editor of Dvořák's opera Vanda, which will be one of the first volumes to be published by Bärenreiter as part of the New Critical Edition of Dvořák's Works.

Hank Hammett, the Director of Opera at Southern Methodist University, is an acclaimed director and acting coach for singers. He has worked at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, San Francisco Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Theâtre Royal de la Monnaie (Brussels), De Nederlandse Opera (Amsterdam), Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona), Opera Company of Philadelphia and The Dallas Opera, among others.

Kirsten Peterson holds a BM degree from Southwestern University, a master's degree in bassoon performance from Yale University School of Music, and a Ph.D. in Music History and Theory from the University of Connecticut. She is lecturer at Southern Connecticut State University, the University of Connecticut at Stamford, and Naugatuck Valley Community College, and is principal bassoonist in the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra.