Tabitha Burchett, soprano
Heidi Waterman, mezzo-soprano
Michael Jankosky, tenor
UC Davis Faculty Affiliate Malcolm MacKenzie, baritone

Caleb Lewis, conductor

Mozart: Ave verum corpus; and the Requiem
with the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra
Professor of Music Christian Baldini, music director

University Chorus
Caleb Lewis, director
UC Davis Lecturer in Music 

$12 Students and Children, $24 Adults (Assigned Seating)

Conducted by Caleb Lewis, lecturer in music and director of choirs, the concert features guest soloists Tabitha Burchett, soprano, Heidi Waterman, mezzo-soprano, Michael Jankosky, tenor, and faculty affiliate Malcolm MacKenzie, baritone. The program also includes Mozart’s short work Ave verum corpus.

Lewis has degrees in choral music from Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina, and Emory University in Atlanta. Prior to joining UC Davis in 2018, he received his Doctor of Music in Choral Conducting from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music.

MacKenzie has appeared at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Paris Opera (Bastille), Finland’s Savonlinna Festival, Washington National Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, San Diego Opera, Arizona Opera, Fort Worth Opera, and Pittsburgh Opera. He has sung pivotal roles in Don Giovanni, Tosca, La traviata, Madama Butterfly and Otello. 

Burchett has sung Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Josephine in HMS Pinafore, Gretel in Hansel and Gretel and Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance. Her oratorio work includes performances of Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Paukenmesse, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 2. 

​Jankosky has performed with many San Francisco Bay Area companies. He made his solo debut with the San Francisco Symphony in Mendelssohn’s Symphony 2 “Lobgesang” and performed as tenor soloist with the San Francisco Symphony Chorus performance of Bach’s St. John Passion.

Waterman has performed as a soloist with the San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Opera, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, San Francisco Bach Choir and American Bach Soloists. Career highlights include Bach’s Christ lag in Todesbanden and Handel’s Dixit Dominus, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, and the role of a Muse in Rameau’s opera Le Temple de la Gloire.

The Requiem in D Minor, K. 626, was unfinished at the time of Mozart’s death in 1791. In 1792 Franz Xaver Süssmayr completed the score, which had been commissioned by Count Franz von Walsegg for a requiem service to commemorate the anniversary of his wife’s death.