All Hands on Deck! A Musical Spectacle hits Milton on Feb. 15

All Hands on Deck!

February 15, 2025 3:00 p.m.

United Congregational Church in Milton

495 Canton Avenue   Milton, MA

6 hands….1 piano…what could go wrong?

Join Seaglass Theater Company for an afternoon of musical mayhem as three extraordinary pianists come together to perform works arranged for six hands on a single piano. A Valentine-themed dessert reception will follow the concert.

The concert stars Angela Gooch, Jodi Goble and Matthew Larson in a rousing display of musicianship and teamwork.

“I am thrilled that we were able to get these three in-demand artists together for this concert. 6 hand piano music is rarely performed, so this is sure to be a unique and entertaining experience.” says Artistic Director Patrice Tiedemann.

Tickets

• Tickets range from $25-30.00, and include the dessert reception, and may be purchased online at https://www.eventbrite.com/manage/collections/3963123/events
• Tickets may also be purchased with cash, credit card, or check the day of the concerts at each venue a half hour before each performance.

For more information, please visit www.seaglasstheater.com or call 508-951-7187.

About the Performers

JODI GOBLE

Composer Jodi Goble writes text-based, character-driven music fueled by her extensive background as a vocal coach and song-specialist collaborative pianist. Her compositions have been performed across the United States and internationally and featured on National Public Radio.  She won the Iowa Music Teachers Association Commission Competition in 2013 and took first prize in the National Association of Teachers of Singing Art Song Competition in 2024 for her song cycle Sea Creatures for soprano and piano.  She also placed as a NATS ASCA finalist in 2008, 2017, 2020, and 2021, as the honorable mention winner in 2015, and won second prize in 2016.  Her art songs are published in anthologies by New Music Shelf and North Star Music.

Ms. Goble’s recent commissions include works for Seaglass Theater, Really Spicy Opera, I, the Siren, Voices of the Pearl, the Durward Ensemble, and Laura Strickling’s GRAMMY-nominated 40×40 Project.  Her works have recently been performed at the Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago’s Spring Lieder Lounge, the ASEAN Festival of Contemporary Music, Calliope’s Call, Songfest, the National Opera Center in New York City, the Fondation des États-Unis in Paris, San Francisco Opera’s Atrium Sessions, Jordan Hall, Ames Town and Gown, Omaha Under the Radar, the Art Song Preservation Society of New York, and the Savannah V.O.I.C.E. Festival, for which she is Composer-In-Residence.

Ms. Goble is Full Teaching Professor in Voice at Iowa State University, the official pianist for the Simon Estes Roots and Wings Community Concert Series, and the official accompanist for the Metropolitan Opera National Council Guild Auditions in Iowa.

ANGELA GOOCH

Angela Gooch has spent a great deal of her career as an operatic soprano, performing with numerous organizations including the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Festival, Red Mountain Chamber Orchestra, Opera Boston, The Florestan Project and most recently at the Monadnock Festival. She has also appeared as a featured performer at international venues including Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, the United States Presidential Yacht, the U.S.S. Sequoia, and in Italy at the Casa Verdi.

Ms. Gooch performed as the Voice of the Fountain in Golijov’s Grammy award winning Ainadamar under the direction of Peter Sellars. She also created the role of Mary Lincoln in the world premiere of Eric Sawyer’s Our American Cousin with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project and can be heard on the BMOP/sound label.

Ms. Gooch has served on the faculties at Boston University, Boston Conservatory, and The Walnut Hill School for the Arts, for which she served ten years as the Head of the voice program. She has also served on the faculty at Boston University Tanglewood Young Artist Vocal Program, created a summer program tour in Italy, and has been honored by the NFAA and named in the Who’s Who Among American Teachers.

Ms. Gooch is also an accomplished pianist. She has served as music director/conductor for Birmingham Summerfest, Birmingham Children’s Theatre and the Opera Theatre of Weston, where she recently served as music director for the east coast premiere of Nolan Gasser’s opera The Secret Garden. She currently serves as the pianist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Tanglewood Festival Chorus.

MATTHEW LARSON

He received his Doctorate in Collaborative Piano from Arizona State University under the tutelage of Eckart Sellheim. An accomplished recitalist, Dr. Larson has played over 700 concerts in the U.S. and Europe.

He has worked with Metropolitan Opera stars Carol Vaness, Lawrence Brownlee, Jennifer Larmore and Sherrill Milnes; Academy of Ancient Music director Christopher Hogwood; vocal pedagogy pioneer Richard Miller; and the eminent collaborative artist Dalton Baldwin, with whom Matthew was invited to study in New York. He has served as Assistant Conductor for Boston Lyric Opera; Music Director of University of Connecticut’s Opera Program; Pianist/Coach for Yale University’s Opera Program; Vocal Coach and Music Director for Arizona State University’s Lyric Opera Theater; Staff Pianist for The American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria; Music Director of Opera Providence; Vocal Coach at Walnut Hill School for the Arts; Staff Pianist for Opera New England; Pianist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra Tanglewood Festival Chorus; and Music Director of Cape Cod Opera. As a clinician, Dr. Larson has been a guest artist or artist-in- residence at Yale University, Brown University, Harvard University, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Arizona State University, Wheaton College, University of Connecticut, and Eastern Mennonite University.

Currently, Dr. Larson serves on the Faculty of the Boston University Opera Institute; as Music Director for Seaglass Theater Company; and as Minister of Music at First Congregational Church of Milton, Massachusetts.