Celebrate Noel on Norway Pond
Our popular holiday concert returns with the Norway Pond Festival Singers and the Jr. Mints! Sixty singers, young and not-so-young, will be joined by guest soloists baritone Philip Themio Stoddard and soprano Shan Hai. The program features new arrangements of holiday favorites and Wenceslas, a cantata by renowned English composer Bob Chilcott that brings the story of Good King Wenceslas to life.
We are excited to offer two holiday concerts this season to meet demand — 1:00 p.m. and 4 p.m. Please check your ticket time!
(Students and kids are free, but please purchase a ticket so we can track attendance.)
About Philip Themio Stoddard
Philip Themio Stoddard is an award-winning artist known for his versatility on stage and screen.
Recently seen on HBO’s acclaimed series The Gilded Age and in the Tony-nominated Broadway revival of Camelot at Lincoln Center Theater, Philip is a graduate of both The Juilliard School’s Drama Division and Institute for Vocal Arts, the only artist in school history with degrees from two different divisions.
His eclectic body of work stretches from Sophocles to Suzan-Lori Parks, spanning genres from indie film to art song to improvisational magic. He has collaborated with acclaimed artists including Aaron Sorkin, Bartlett Sher, Kimberly Grigsby, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Moni Yakim, Steven Blier and the New York Festival of Song, Jeanine Tesori, Warren Carlyle, Barry Manilow, Michael Kahn, Stephen Wadsworth, Mary Birnbaum, Oliver Butler, Vivienne Benesch, Adam Szymkowicz, Dan Schlosberg and Heartbeat Opera, David Herskovits and Obie Award-winning Target Margin Theater, Ellen Lauren and SITI Company, and with members of the famed Théâtre du Soleil in Paris. He studied voice closely with the late Daniel Ferro and Marlena Malas and currently studies with Jacques Schwarz.
Philip loves traveling, cooking, and campfires. Originally from Arizona, he currently resides in New York City.
About Shan Hai
Soprano Shan Hai has been praised by Opera News for her “remarkably accomplished vocalism, with bright, accurate coloratura runs and genuine trills.”
She has appeared with the New York Festival of Song and was a participant in the Merola Opera Program at San Francisco Opera, where she performed excerpts as Ophélie in Thomas’ Hamlet, sang Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Servilia in La clemenza di Tito, and covered Lucia in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia.
Her operatic roles include Susanna in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Eurydice in Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld, Le Feu in Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges, and Romilda in Handel’s Serse.
She is a prizewinner of the Ades Vocal Competition and the Eisenberg-Fried Concerto Competition with the Manhattan School of Music Symphony Orchestra, and has received awards from the Opera Index Competition, the Gerda Lissner Lieder/Song Competition, and the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition. She was also a finalist in the Neue Stimmen International Vocal Competition.
Shan Hai is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music and the Chautauqua Opera Conservatory. |