“Holiday Cheer” opens the 2024-2025 season. This concert has been a hallmark of the COS season since its inception in 2017. The featured artist for the concert will be Hanna Brammer. “Don’t miss the opportunity to see this promising young artist in action” wrote The Tennessean. Ms. Brammer will sing Mozart’s brilliant motet Exsultate Jubilate which he composed when he was only 16 years old. The work was composed shortly after Christmas in 1772 and is considered Mozart’s first masterpiece. Ms. Brammer will also sing arias by Johann Sebastian Bach and Luigi Cherubini.
The program will open with Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 and Puccini's Chrysanthemum. Holiday selections on this concert include Zamir Bavel’s “Hanukkah Light” and Bill Holcomb’s "Christmas Wishes.”
Hanna Brammer, soprano
Praised by Opera News as “magnificent,” rising star, soprano Hanna Brammer, is making a splash on the operatic scene. Brammer has interpreted many of opera’s most beloved soprano roles to great acclaim, including Nedda (I Pagliacci), Violetta (La Traviata), Musetta (La bohème), Gilda (Rigoletto), and Juliette (Roméo et Juliette). Brammer recently wowed Sarasota audiences with her portrayal of Vespina in Haydn’s comic masterpiece L’Infedeltà Delusa.
Brammer recently made her Carnegie Hall debut in Mozart’s Coronation Mass with Mid-America Productions. She also has made appearances with The Florida Orchestra, The Jacksonville Symphony, The Glacier Symphony, and Ensemble NewSRQ. She made her professional debut as Rose Maurrant in Opera North’s 2014 production of Street Scene. She has sung leading roles with Opera Columbus, Knoxville Opera, Opera Tampa, St. Pete Opera, Sarasota Opera, Nashville Opera, Mississippi Opera, Opera Memphis, Festival Amadeus, Indianapolis Opera, Opera North, Opera Project Columbus, Painted Sky Opera, and Wichita Grand Opera.
Robert Vodnoy
Music Director Robert Vodnoy has enjoyed a long and illustrious career as a conductor, composer, violinist, and educator. He co-founded the Chamber Orchestra of Sarasota in 2017. Vodnoy made his professional debut as a conductor in 1975 with the Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra, which he led as music director for 30 years. He was Music Director of the Northwest Indiana Symphony (1976-1996), the Whiting Park Festival Orchestra (2000-present), the Huron Symphony (2010-2015) and has guest conducted orchestras throughout the United States, Europe, Latin America, and the Pacific Rim. He was Director of Orchestras/Professor of Strings and Music History at Northern State University from 2005-2018.
Vodnoy holds a BM summa cum laude and MM in composition from Hartt College of the University of Hartford and a DM in Conducting from Indiana University. He also studied conducting at the Monteux School for Conductors and the L'academia Chigiana.
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