Milton Community Concerts
at First Parish
Let’s Fall in Love: A Musical Confection
Saturday, February 14th at 7:00pm
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On Saturday, February 14 at 7pm, Milton Community Concerts presents: “Let’s Fall in Love: A Musical Confection”, featuring two world-class singers sharing their talents and repartee in a lively musical celebration of love. Vocalists Abigail Paschke and Aaron Engebreth will join pianist Timothy Steele in an entertaining and unpredictable program exploring the many aspects of love, featuring composers from Broadway and the Great American Songbook. This concert will take place on Saturday, February 14 at 7pm at First Parish of Milton, 535 Canton Avenue.
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Soprano Abigail Paschke is a multi-talented crossover performer, having performed roles in many musicals, operas, and operettas. She sang in WEST SIDE STORY with the National Symphony Orchestra at their Centennial Celebration of Leonard Bernstein. She has been featured in productions of SHOWBOAT, CAROUSEL, and GHOSTS OF VERSAILLES, among many others. Among her film and television credits include the Emmy-Award winning THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL, where she appeared in the role of Sandra Gutenberg. She has excelled in numerous prestigious vocal competitions, and recently appeared with Aaron Engebreth in a production of OF THEE I SING (Gershwin) with Odyssey Opera/Boston Modern Orchestra Project.
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Baritone Aaron Engebreth is equally versatile in his varied career as a singer and actor. He is currently starring in a multi-episode serialized opera, “Everything for Dawn” (currently streaming online and on various television networks) in which he plays a Vietnam Veteran. He has earned two Grammy nominations for his work with the Boston Early Music Festival and Radio Bremen, and has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and Symphony Hall in Boston, as well as internationally. He has been featured in numerous musicals and operas, and will soon present the New York premiere of Jon Deak’s monodrama “The Passion of Scrooge”. Aaron is a prolific recording artist, featured on over 35 commercial recordings, and frequently as a voice-over artist.
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General admission to this concert is $25/seniors $15/free to 18 and under. Tickets available at the door only; arrive early for best seating. In the event of weather cancellation, visit miltoncommunityconcerts.com for rescheduling information.
Artist Headshots and Bios
For over thirty years, the baritone Aaron Engebreth has built a varied solo career in classical music, theatre, musical theatre and radio. He currently stars in the multi-episode serialized opera made for television, Everything for Dawn, as Mac Logan, a Vietnam Veteran who appears as a spectral presence, even when he’s alive. Critically acclaimed as being “sung with wrenching melancholy by Aaron Engebreth”, the series currently streams on multiple online and television networks.
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He began performing professionally at the age of 16, (nearly failing out of High School as a result) but a life in performance had seized his attention. He is now a perennial guest of major orchestras, opera companies and early music ensembles throughout the United States and abroad and devotes considerable energy to the performance of established music and contemporary premieres, frequently collaborating with many of today’s preeminent composers.
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His New York City Opera debut in Dominick Argento’s mono-dramatic opera, A Waterbird Talk, was acclaimed by the New York Classical Review stating, “Engebreth is a marvelous actor, capable of holding his character’s many facets and motivations in tension.” Mr. Engebreth has garnered two GRAMMY Award nominations for Best Operatic Recording for his work with the Boston Early Music Festival and Radio Bremen (Thésée and Psyché, by Lully). He has been a soloist from Carnegie Hall to the Kennedy Center and Boston’s Symphony Hall, as well as international appearances from Sapporo Japan’s Kitara Hall to Le Theatre de la Ville in Paris to the AmBul Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria. Mr. Engebreth has been a guest soloist of the Tanglewood, Ravinia, Rockport and Monadnock Music Festivals, the Mark Morris Dance Company and Boston Ballet. He has been featured with early music orchestras such as American Bach Soloists, Handel and Haydn Society and Boston Baroque. He was a regular soloist with Emmanuel Music for six seasons, joining a longtime tradition of performances of Bach’s cantatas under the direction of the late Craig Smith.
Mr Engebreth is featured with many of the country’s fine symphonies, among them the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Portland, Virginia, San Diego, Charlotte Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Like many artists, he has been honored to make music in some of the world’s greatest concert halls and stages, but also intimate social programs in nursing homes, community centers and public schools. He is a frequent guest-clinician, leading masterclasses and mentoring activities in Universities and Conservatories.
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His current season brings performances with Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Odyssey Opera, Washington DC’s 21st Century Consort, North Star Baroque, as well as commercial operatic and lieder recordings with Enigma Chamber Opera, the Buffalo Philharmonic and Florestan Recital Project. He will present the New York premiere of Jon Deak’s monodrama, The Passion of Scrooge – a piece he has frequently performed and recorded with Firebird Chamber Ensemble – with the New York-based Talea Ensemble in December.
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A prolific recording artist, he is featured on over 35 commercial recordings and is often heard as a voice-over artist. He is a member of the Recording Academy and of the Actors’ Equity Association.
Lauded by The Washington Times as “sprightly and charming” with “a voice as clear and acrobatic as one could wish,” Abigail Paschke has established herself as an artist with “uncommon spark.” Known internationally as an established crossover performer, her recent credits include multiple productions of West Side Story, performing the roles of Francisca (Lyric Opera of Chicago), Rosalia (Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Italy), and Maria (The Carnegie), as well as Rosalia with the National Symphony Orchestra for the Centennial Celebration of Leonard Bernstein at the Kennedy Center.
Additional highlights include Ellie Mae Chipley in Showboat (Glimmerglass Festival), Diana Devereaux in Of Thee I Sing (Boston Modern Orchestra Project), Carrie Pipperidge in Carousel (Opera Montana), Valencienne in The Merry Widow (Kentucky Opera), Cinderella in Into the Woods (Opera Montana), Maria in The Sound of Music (The Carnegie), Yum-Yum in The Mikado (Opera Montana), and Gossip 2 in The Ghosts of Versailles (Royal Opera of Versailles, France), among others.
Her film and television credits include Sandra Gutenberg in the Emmy Award-winning The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon Prime Video) and Alice in the Emmy-nominated Le Comte Ory (Iowa PBS). She is an Encouragement Award Winner from The Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, a National Semi-Finalist from the Houston Grand Opera Eleanor McCollum Competition, the Grand Prize winner of the Orpheus Competition, and holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University and University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music.
Timothy Steele is an active vocal coach, collaborative pianist, and conductor, and is currently in his thirty-fifth year on the opera faculty at New England Conservatory. He has conducted for outreach tours with the Boston Lyric Opera (more than 200 performances for school children) and is a former music director for Opera Providence. He has served as conductor/pianist for more than 225 operatic productions with 33 companies, including Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Wolf Trap Opera, Central City Opera, and Opera Maine. For workshops and rehearsals he assisted with the Pulitzer Prize-winning opera MADAME WHITE SNAKE in productions in Boston and Taiwan.
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He has played for thousands of opera auditions and competitions, assisted as recording producer for two award-winning recordings, and as a vocal coach has worked with both young singers and seasoned professionals. He is currently the producer of Milton Community Concerts and is the music director/organist at historic First Parish Church in Milton, MA. In Boston he has performed with Emmanuel Music (where he played for a decade of weekly Bach cantatas), the Handel and Haydn Society, and the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, among others.
A native of Des Moines, Iowa, Timothy received his Bachelor of Music from Drake University and a Master of Music from the University of Southern California, where he studied collaborative piano with Gwendolyn Koldofsky.