TGIF, Dec 20, 5:30pm
This Friday our own Travis Bregier, baritone, and Debbie Wagner, piano, bring us lively Christmas season favorites at our Friday night concert. Doors to the sanctuary open at 5:15pm and the concert begins at 5:30pm. The concert is free with donations accepted.
Program
It’s Beginning to Look Like Christmas by Meredith Willson
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! by Jule Styne
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane
Mele Kalikimaka / White Christmas by R. Alex Anderson and Irving Berlin
Silver Bells by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans
The Christmas Song by Mel Torme and Robert Wells
A Child is Born by Thad Jones
Lettera a Pinocchio by Mario Panzeri
Somewhere in My Memory by John Willia
Travis Bregier
Travis Bregier earned his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in vocal performance at North Dakota State University. As a student of Dr. Robert Jones, he performed solo recitals featuring music from the Baroque to the twenty-first century, and appeared as a soloist in George Frederic Handel’s Messiah. He also performed as a soloist in Europe with the NDSU Concert Choir while touring Croatia and Italy.
Extending his talents into opera, Bregier has made multiple appearances on the stage of the NDSU Festival Concert Hall, including: Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus (Strauss), a priest in The Magic Flute (Mozart), the Learned Judge in Trial by Jury (Sullivan), and Peter Quince in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Britten).
Bregier was a first place finalist in the North Dakota National Association of Teachers of Singing regional competitions in 2010, 2011, 2013, and in the graduate division in 2015, allowing him to compete in the semi-final round at the National NATS audition that same year.
Currently, he is singing with the Santa Fe Symphony Chorus and First Presbyterian Church while also teaching voice and piano lessons at First Presbyterian Church and The Candyman: Strings & Things. Looking forward, he is excited to be preparing for Opera Southwest’s fall production of Guillaume Tell (Rossini) in Albuquerque.
Deborah Wagner
A native of Las Vegas, Nevada, Deborah Wagner completed her Doctorate of Musical Arts at Arizona State University after having obtained degrees from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Northwestern University. Since moving to Santa Fe in 2006, she has performed with Santa Fe New Music, the Santa Fe Symphony, the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, the Placitas Artists Series, Coro de Camera and the Sangre de Christo Chorale. Deborah has been on the faculties of New Mexico Highlands University and Santa Fe University of Art and Design, as well as teaching privately and coaching. She regularly works with singers and instrumentalists in the Santa Fe area and has toured with soloists and choirs throughout the country.