Music at
The First Congregational Church of Stockbridge
Special Music for Summer 2010
Sunday, July 18 @10am
The American Boychoir sings for Sunday morning worship
The American Boychoir is regarded as the United States’ premier concert boys’ choir. Under the leadership of Fernando Malvar-Ruiz, the Litton-Lodal Music Director, The American Boychoir continues to dazzle audiences with its unique blend of musical sophistication, effervescent spirit, and ensemble virtuosity. Maintaining an active national and international touring schedule, the Boychoir performs with world-class ensembles including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic. The Boychoir appears regularly as featured artists with James Levine at the Tanglewood Music Festival, and has performed with the internationally renowned soprano Jessye Norman, prominent jazz musician Wynton Marsalis, pop diva Beyoncé, and at Carnegie Hall with Sir Paul McCartney.
New Music Director
We are pleased to announce that Sarah Jobin will become our next Minster of Music at First Congregational. She will be taking over from our interim director, Vaughn Mauren, who is headed to Christ Church Episcopal in Bronxville, New York.
Maestra Jobin has conducted performances of Tosca, Der fliegende Holländer, Norma, and the world premiere of Appomattox (Glass) with San Francisco Opera, and recently led a production for SFO of Rachel Portman’s The Little Prince. She has also conducted Conrad Susa’s Transformations, The Bear, Dr. Heidegger’s Fountain of Youth, and Egon und Emilie with the San Francisco Opera Center. Recent credits include Carmen with Anchorage Opera, a live recording of John Musto’s Volpone at Wolf Trap Opera, Carmen, La bohème, Il barbiere di Siviglia, and Faust with Tacoma Opera, and Der fliegende Holländer with Arizona Opera. Her recording with Frederica von Stade of the world premiere River of Song by Chris Brubeck can be heard on Convergence on the Koch label. Mr. Brubeck wrote the piece for her and the Tassajara Symphony, an orchestra she directed for four years after its founding in 1998. In 2004, she had the honor of being the first woman to conduct mainstage subscription performances at San Francisco Opera.
Maestra Jobin attended Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges. The Solti Foundation acknowledged her with a Special Grant in 2006, and she was a Visiting Artist at Harvard in 2008. She has a black belt in judo, and was the 2006 national champion in Ju-no-kata. Since 2001, she has sung in the gospel choir at Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco.
