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NAI IN THE NEWS
NAI is honored to welcome tenor Stéphane Sénéchal to our Principal Artist Roster. We are also delighted to now be working with Elyse Kakacek, Laura Kimmel and Sara Litchfield in our Emerging Artists Division.
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Derek Chester received rave reviews for his performance of the complete Handel's Messiah at St. Marks in Arlington and in the Meyerson with the Dallas Bach Society. A recording will be released next year. Wayne Lee Gay writing for D Magazine said, "The most amazing vocal performance of the evening, however, came from tenor Derek Chester, a doctoral candidate at the University of North Texas who, along with a ravishingly beautiful voice, continually revealed a perfect balance of logic and passion." Scott Cantrell in the Dallas Morning News exclaimed, "The Dallas Bach Society's Messiah on Monday night may have been the finest live performance I've ever heard of Handel's beloved oratorio" and lauded Derek for his "beautifully liquescent tone and vivid declamation."
Mr. Chester recently recorded and performed with three-time Grammy nominated Seraphic Fire in there 10th anniversary season. He will soon appear in four performances of Bach's St. Matthew Passion with the American Bach Soloists in San Francisco, as evangelist in the St. Matthew Passion with the Voices of Ascension in New York City, as soloist in the St. John Passion with Bach Collegium San Diego, as evangelist in the St. John Passion at the University of Northern Colorado with conductor Simon Carrington, and as tenor soloist in a complete Handel's Messiah at the University of Georgia in Athens. He will be performing in the Bach St. Mark Passion reconstruction on Good Friday in Bergen, Norway with Barokksolistene. This summer he will appear as soloist in Beethoven's Missa Solemnis at the Berkshire Festival, Craig Hella Johnson conducting.
Derek Chester has been selected to participate in Carnegie Hall's Professional Training Workshop in March, consisting of master classes and a concert with L'Aarpeggiata. He is scheduled to finish his doctoral studies this summer at the University of North Texas where he is a teaching fellow. The subject of his dissertation is the early songs of Samuel Barber.
 We are pleased to announce our latest release on iTunes.
Bach's St. Matthew Passion
"This is a highly persuasive and moving Matthew Passion... remarkable for both its powerful narrative, and the emotional intensity of its meditative arias... The band plays with elegance and suavity... Such a sense of performance and narrative makes this live recording the most compelling Matthew Passion that I have heard on disc."
Early Music Review, Cambridge"The performance represents something of a tour de force for American Bach Soloists director Jeffrey Thomas, who not only conducts but also sings the demanding role of the Evangelist. Thomas's contribution, both as conductor and singer, is distinguished by a rare sense of integrity, one of the great strengths of a performance that grows in stature as it progresses... the chorus produces much to admire, with some particularly sensitive interjections in the tenor aria "Ich will bei meinem Jesu wachen" and the penultimate recitative. The chorales too are very successful, truly devotional, unmannered, but at the same time sung with real meaning... The splendid oboes da caccia here are characteristic of the outstanding playing Thomas draws throughout from his American Bach Soloists, whether as an ensemble or in their many obbligato roles... a very fine achievement that will surely bring as much spiritual refreshment to others as it has to me."
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