About this project
What's in a Name?
What’s in a Name? is a timeless question posed by Shakespeare in Romeo & Juliet. Sopranos Evan Leontis and Jacqueline Novikov need your support to produce a free vocal concert and CD entitled What’s in a Name?, that focuses on music from opera, art song, and musical theater. Each song in the concert tells a story about a different character whose name appears in the title of the song and/or within the text of the song.
If we raise the money, the concert will take place on Sunday, March 11, 2012 at the Brookline Public Library in Boston, MA. We will record the concert music in a recording studio at Boston University in March or April. The funds we raise will go toward paying our collaborative pianist, renting the performance venue and recording studio, CD production costs, printing programs, and advertising. Currently, we have reserved our performance venue, picked the concert program and have much of the music learned.
Classical music lovers, musical theater buffs and the literary set alike will be entertained by this creative concert experience.
Previous Collaborations & Work
Love & Nature: Duets (June 2011)
Music from Childhood (Oct 2010)
I Could Write a Book (Apr 2010)
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This project successfully raised its funding goal on February 19.
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At home on both the opera and recital stage, soprano Jacqueline Novikov, founder of Forma Music, is dedicated to entertaining and educating audiences through classical vocal music. Her foremost goal is to use music’s powerful language to communicate life’s truths, including the humorous, serious, mundane and sacred. Originally from Southern California, Jacqueline holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY and a Master of Music degree from Manhattan School of Music in New York City.
Evangelia “Evan” Leontis, soprano, has appeared in many opera productions in the Boston area and has sung recitals in Boston, MA, Rochester, NY, and in her hometown Bowling Green, OH. She was a 2010 semi-finalist in the Orpheus Competition and a winner of the 2010 Greek University Women’s Club Music Competition. Evan received her Masters of Music in vocal performance from Boston University in 2009 and her Bachelor of Music in vocal performance from the Eastman School of Music in 2007.
