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Brahms Requiem concert

Presented by La Sierra University at La Sierra University Church

May 31, 2008

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The La Sierra University Music Department will present the Brahms Requiem featuring the University Chorale, Claremont Chorale and the LSU Symphony Orchestra. Bass-baritone Wayne Shepperd and La Sierra’s Director of Vocal Studies, soprano Raejin Lee will perform as soloists. La Sierra’s Director of Choral Studies, E. Earl Richards II will conduct. The group will perform the Lara G. Hoggard English edition of the massive requiem, a rendition that has been warmly received by audiences and critics. Johannes Brahms composed the large-scale work between 1865 and 1868. Wayne Shepperd, bass-baritone, has sung throughout the United States, China and Europe in recital, opera and oratorio performances. He has appeared at the Los Angeles Opera, Opera San Jose, the Mormon Tabernacle, Carnegie Hall and the nationally televised Hour of Power with Dr. Robert Schuller. In addition, he has performed with the Riverside Master Chorale, the Desert Chorale, the Claremont Chorale, the Los Angeles Camerata, Canto Bello Chorale and the Angeles Chorale. His engagements for this season include Handel’s “Messiah,” Bach’s “ B Minor Mass,” Faure’s “Requiem,” Kirke Mechem’s “ Songs of the Slave,” Beethoven’s “ Choral Fantasy,” and the Brahms “Requiem.” Lee has performed throughout the United States, Italy, and Korea in oratorio, recital, and opera. Her performance roles include Adina in L’elisir d’amor, Pamina in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Juliette in Roméo et Juliette and Gretel in Hansel and Gretel. Her awards include a special prize for distinguished performance of the Italian Art Song repertoire from Italian America Cultural Foundation. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Indiana University and received an Artist Diploma from the Cleveland Institute of Music. Lee recently completed doctoral studies at Rutgers University in New Jersey as a student of Faith Esham. Richards’s musical career was influenced by early performance experiences and piano studies. At age 13 he accompanied the church choir his father directed. He earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from La Sierra University and later earned distinguished citations from the Royal School of Music in England. He received a master’s in choral conducting from the University of California, Los Angeles where he studied with Donald Neuen. He is pursuing a doctorate in choral conducting. Richards has performed in the United States, Canada, Europe and East Africa, and recorded with the United States Air Force Golden Band of the West. Past appointments include artistic director and conductor of the Canto Bello Master Chorale and director of choral activities for the Milwaukee High School of the Arts. He recently served as guest conductor for the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove and is choral director for the Claremont United Church of Christ Congregational.