ABOUT THE PERFORMERS
CHRISTINE HOWLETT
Canadian soprano and conductor Christine R. Howlett studied at the University of Toronto and earned a BM in Vocal Performance, and holds a MM in Early Music Vocal Performance and a DMA in Choral Conducting from Indiana University. As a soloist, she has performed in a range of works from Renaissance to contemporary music. She made her operatic debut at Symphony Space in Richard Wilson’s comic opera Aethelred the Unready and was praised by the New York Times for her role of La Musica “sung—in the best baroque tradition.” In a recent performance of Mozart’s Vespers, “[her] voice soared above the instruments and other voices in a flight of pure beauty and heartfelt prayer.” (Newburgh Times Herald Record.) She is thrilled to collaborate with the nationally acclaimed Chatham-Wood Duo.
Ms. Howlett has sung in ensembles under Marin Alsop, Simon Carrington, Alan Gilbert, Jane Glover, Matthew Halls, Paul Hillier, Lorin Maazel, and Helmut Rilling, and has performed with the professional ensembles, the New York Choral Artists, and the Berwick Chorus of the Oregon Bach Festival.
As a conductor, Ms. Howlett’s choruses have sung at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, and have toured in Italy, Turkey, Germany, Spain, and in the United States. Her choruses have been invited to perform at both ACDA and NCCO conferences. She is the Artistic Director of Cappella Festiva, an auditioned choral ensemble. In 2006, she co-founded the Summer Choral Festival at Vassar College and the Cappella Festiva Treble Choir, an auditioned choral ensemble for treble voices ages 10-18. She was recently appointed music director of the Danbury Concert Chorus in Danbury, CT.
Christine R. Howlett, is Assistant Professor and Director of Choral Activities at Vassar College where she conducts the Vassar College Women's Chorus, Vassar College Choir and teaches music theory and voice.
PATRICK WOOD URIBE
British-Mexican violinist Patrick Wood Uribe studied Modern Languages at Oxford University, violin performance at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and holds a PhD in Musicology from Princeton University. As a teenager he attended summer schools with the Amadeus Quartet and the Allegri Quartet, later studying at the Guildhall School and at the Royal Academy in London as well as with Erick Friedman and Eugene Drucker in the United States. As a soloist and chamber musician, he has performed widely throughout the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as in France, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Italy and Spain.
His solo debut recording, Thomas Baltzar: The Complete Works for Unaccompanied Violin, was released in 2008 to critical acclaim. In addition to praise from Gramophone, Strings magazine, and All Music Guide, CD Hotlist writes "yes, that's a single instrument in the G major Prelude"; and MusicWeb International recommends that "all with an interest in the history of the violin repertoire, or in the ‘English’ music of the seventeenth century should hear this CD..."
Dr. Wood Uribe is a regular performer with the Berkshire Bach Society, appearing as soloist alongside artists such as Eugene Drucker of the Emerson Quartet, Carol Wincenc and Kenneth Cooper. His chamber concerts both as recitalist with Holly Chatham and as violinist in the Lile Piano Trio have been broadcast across the United States on WWFM the Classical Network. Dr. Wood Uribe has served as concertmaster of New York Philomusica, is a soloist and Concertmaster for the Vermont Mozart Festival, and performs throughout the United States with the New York Chamber Soloists. From 1989 to 1997, Dr. Wood Uribe was a member of The English Mozart Players, as both soloist and Concertmaster with the group in the U.K. and throughout Europe. He is currently Assistant Professor of Music at Boston University.
HOLLY CHATHAM
Holly Chatham is a performer of wide range and skill, sought after for her continuo and improvisational skills on early keyboards as well as her virtuosity on the modern piano. An "elegantly florid" (San Francisco Classical Voice) player and a "leader in the field" (Counterpoint), Ms. Chatham is hailed as possessing "a wonderful improvisational flair" (Atlanta Early Music News) on the keyboard. She has performed nationally and internationally in such venues as Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, as a feature performer at festivals such as the Bloomington Early Music Festival, Miami Bach Festival, Ugbrooke Chamber Music Festival (UK), Festival Alfonso Ortíz Tirado (Mexico), Festival San Luis (Mexico), and at Music in the Vineyards in Napa Valley, and under the batons of conductors such as Masaaki Suzuki, Simon Carrington, jane Glover, Patrick Gardner, Paul Goodwin and Andrew Megill. Each summer she spends five weeks as keyboardist at the Carmel Bach Festival (CA). Ms. Chatham was Co-Artistic Director and harpsichordist in the critically acclaimed ensemble Reconstruction from 2002 to 2010, performing at venues including the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at University of Maryland, the Lane Series at University of Vermont, and embarking on two tours of Mexico. Ms. Chatham toured the U.S. extensively as harpsichordist for the ground-breaking ensemble Bimbetta from 1998 until 2003. Bimbetta was honored by Chamber Music America as an ensemble which changed the face of chamber music in America. She performs regularly with violinist Patrick Wood Uribe in The Chatham-Wood Duo, and with New York area groups such as Riverside Choral Society, Westminster Kantorei, Fuma Sacra, Trinity Choir and Summit Chorale. She is Vocal Coach and Pianist/Early Keyboardist in the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University, and is organist at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
Ms. Chatham holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Collaborative Piano from Rutgers University. She received her Master of Music degree in Harpsichord and Fortepiano Performance from the Early Music Institute at Indiana University (Bloomington) and her Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance from Clayton State University (Atlanta).