TGIF, Sep 13, 5:30pm
For this Friday’s concert, we welcome Christina Martos, lyric soprano, and Kristin Ditlow, piano. We hope you can join us for an evening of lovely music by these talented artists. Doors to the sanctuary open at 5:15pm and the concert begins at 5:30pm. The concert is free with donations accepted.
Program
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The Artists
Lyric soprano Christina Martos has appeared with the Washington National Opera in the roles of Giannetta in L’elisir D’amore, Nella in Gianni Schicchi, and Barena in Jenufa. She was also featured in the role of Annina in the Central City Opera production of Menotti’s The Saint of Bleecker Street directed by Catherine Malfitano. Concert engagements include appearances with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the New World Symphony in Miami, the Marilyn Horne Foundation Festival at Carnegie Hall, Beethoven’s concerto for voice “Ah!, Perfido” with the Yale Philharmonic, and Beethoven’s 9th with the American Youth Symphony at Royce Hall in Los Angeles. Recent engagements include appearances with the New Mexico Performing Arts Society, the Chatter music series in Albuquerque, the world premiere of Ron Strauss’s Los Bufones at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Mozart’s Great Mass with the Santa Fe Community Orchestra, the Montage Music Society, the Abiquiu Chamber Music Festival, and the Taos Chamber Music Group. Recordings include “Songs of Shakespeare” with Carlos Archuleta and Debra Ayers; a Shakespeare-themed joint recital which was featured in Chamber Music America’s National Chamber Music Month. A graduate of Yale University, and Carnegie Mellon University, Christina’s other operatic performances include the title role in Suor Angelica, the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro, Carlysle Floyd’s Susannah, Antonia in The Tales of Hoffman, and Blanche in Dialogues of the Carmelites. Christina moved to New Mexico in 2008 and currently resides in Los Alamos.
Pianist, conductor and coach Kristin Ditlow is enjoying a performance and teaching career throughout the United States and abroad. She has appeared in concert throughout North America, mainland China, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Austria, and the Czech Republic. Ditlow has a deep passion for contemporary opera, having fostered or conducted world premiere or workshop world premiere performances of UnShakeable, This Little Light of Mine and Hometown to the World (Santa Fe Opera); Bless Me, Ultima (Opera Southwest); Mabel’s Call (University of New Mexico Opera Theatre) and Los Poblanos (Teatro Paraguas), and Glory Denied (Permian Basin Opera). She also served as the music director for the Mountain Time Zone premieres of 27 (Intermountain Opera Bozeman) and The Three Feathers (Opera Steamboat). She is equally at home with historical performance, and made her Italian conducting debut in 2024 under the auspices of the Pergolesi Spontini Foundation (Jesi, Italy) and Festival of International Opera (Urbania, Italy) conducting a new version of Baldassare Galuppi’s Il filosofo di campagna in 2024. To the end of historical performance, she has appeared as a fortepianist and harpsichordist with the Carmel Bach Festival, the Finchocks Collection (United Kingdom), the Univerità di Bologna (Italy), St. Paul’s Chamber Orchestra, and Westminster Kantorei.