Bryan is excited to join the Areté Vocal Ensemble for this timely and moving project as a featured soloist and ensemble member. The piece is incredibly moving and is a call to action for justice in our time.

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Areté, the innovative professional ensemble of vocal artists, returns to the stage for its 11th season to perform Considering Matthew Shepard by Craig Hella Johnson.

In October 1998, Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, was kidnapped, severely beaten, tied to a fence and left to die days later in a lonely field under a blanket of stars. Two decades later, Johnson has responded with his first concert-length work. This three-part fusion oratorio speaks with a fresh and bold voice, incorporating a variety of musical styles woven into a unified whole. Johnson sets to music a wide range of poetic and soulful texts as well as passages from Shepard’s personal journal and his parents’ interviews and writings. The Washington Post wrote, “Considering Matthew Shepard demonstrates music’s capacity to encompass, transform and transcend tragedy. Powerfully cathartic, it leads us from horror and grief to a higher understanding of the human condition, enabling us to endure.”

With uncompromising attention to musical detail and a passion for live performance, Areté provides a joyful, moving, educational and soul-nurturing experience. Wyant Morton conducts.

Tickets are $20 at the door or $15 if purchased online in advance. Tickets for students with ID are $10 and free for children under 12. For information and to purchase tickets, visit aretevocalensemble.

Bryan joins the IVC Master Chorale under the direction of Dr. Matthew Tresler for their program "The Glory of Verseilles". Revel in the splendor of a night at the court of the Sun King. The Chorale presents French music from the court of Versailles during the reign of Louis XIV. Featuring works by Charpentier, Lully, Rameau, and more. 
 

The innovative professional ensemble of vocal artists concludes its 8th season with concert featuring music of the great 20th century French composer Francis Poulenc.  The centerpiece of the concert will be a performance by the full ensemble of his Gloria.  This famous sacred work will be juxtaposed with art songs and jazz influenced Parisian cabaret songs by Poulenc and other prominent composers of the era.

With uncompromising attention to musical detail and a passion for live performance Areté provides a joyful, moving, educational and soul-nurturing experience.

Bryan Lane will be a featured soloist performing Poulenc's Deux poèmes de Louis Aragon. 

Come experience the Handel’s Messiah and your favorite Christmas carols led by a choir from surrounding churches. Music will be conducted by Dr. Board, of Pepperdine University, and the Westlake Symphony.

The November concert is called The Poet Sings and will feature music in tribute to the great poets.  The program will feature Sonetos de Amor (Sonnets of Love) based on the poetry of revered Chilean poet and statesman Pablo Neruda by Los Angeles composer Shawn Kirchner. Also on the program will be Changed by Scottish composer James MacMillan which is based on Wallace Stevens’ poem The Man with the Blue Guitar which was inspired by Picasso’s painting The Old Guitarist.

Contributing to this program of new music, tenor Bryan Lane will premiere two songs by Ojai based composer Michael J. Bland, The Skies Swim and The Decaying Year. Set to texts by the ascetic and mysterious Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, the two pieces present an interesting juxtaposition: one offering an introspective look at Autumn and the other a bright and uplifting meditation on nature.

Three Motets by J.S. Bach

Komm, Jesu, Komm, BWV 299

Jesu Meine Freude, BWV 227

Singet Dem Herrn, BWV 225

Mozart's Mass in C Minor, K. 427

Chung Uk Lee-Conductor

So Young Park-Soprano

Caroline McKenzie-Mezzo Soprano

Bryan Lane-Tenor

David Dong-Geun Kim-Bass

Join tenor Bryan Lane and pianist Christopher Davis in a performance of two of history's greatest song cycles, Ludwig Van Beethoven's "An die Ferne Geliebte" and Robert Schumann's "Liederkreis" Op. 39. This concert also features a world premiere of the piece "June Days" by composer Michael J. Bland and sublime piano music by Claude Debussy.

PROGRAM

An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98            Ludwig van Beethoven

Prelude (from Pour le piano)                           Claude Debussy
Clair de lune (from Suite Bergamasque) 
Pour que la nuit soit propice (from Six Épigraphes antiques)

Liederkreis, Op. 39                                        Robert Schumann

June Days-Premiere Performance                     Michael J. Bland

Concert is FREE, however goodwill donations will be accepted and greatly appreciated!