Sven
edward
olbash

bio

Sven Edward Olbash has credits as a conductor, opera singer, musical theater performer, stage director, organist, theatrical clown, acrobat, and trapeze performer. He completed a Music Performance Residency with San Francisco Opera and has been a guest clinician with SF Choral Society, Piedmont Choirs, SF Lyric Opera, Lincoln Center Education, Gregorian Institute of Canada, and the National Association of Teachers of Singing. He is artistic director of Lacuna Arts Chorale and Euouae, with whom he directed and produced the album you who sow in tears will reap in joy. He has performed at La Sainte Trinité, Longwood Opera, Lowell House Opera, New England Light Opera, Center for New Music, Old First Concerts, Other Minds Festival, Rick Berlin’s Cha Cha Club, Infusion Lounge, Barnaby’s World of Wonderment, and Phènix Opera and has premiered works by over forty living composers with new music ensemble Volti. He teaches singing in his private studio.

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Performances

Center for New Music (San Francisco, CA)

Other Minds Festival (San Francisco, CA)

Old First Concerts (San Francisco, CA)

Longwood Opera (Needham, MA)

New England Light Opera (Lexington, MA)

Lowell House Opera (Cambridge, MA)

Phènix Opera (Pacifica, CA)

La Sainte Trinité (Paris, France)

opera roles

Papageno (Magic Flute, Mozart)

Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas, Purcell)

Schaunard (La bohème, Puccini)

Chat noir (L'enfant et les sortilèges, Ravel)

Dandini (Cenerentola, Rossini)

Pooh-bah (Mikado, Gilbert & Sullivan)

stage directing

NEC Light Opera Company, stage director: Xerxes (Handel)

New England Conservatory Opera Theater, assistant director: The Tender Land (Copland) with director Marc Astafan 

Boston Lyric Opera, assistant director: Flight (Jonathan Dove) with director Colin Graham

audio

This full-length album by Euouae is directed and produced by Sven Edward Olbash

CONDUCTING REPERTOIRE

Selected multi-movement works. For a more extensive repertoire list, visit lacunaarts.org/repertoire.

Anonymous
Messe de Tournai

J.S. Bach
Jesu, meine Freude

Britten
5 Flower Songs

Brumel
Requiem

Buxtehude
Missa brevis

Byrd
Mass for 3 voices

Campra
Missa Ad majorem Dei gloriam

Charpentier
Messe de minuit pour Noël

Distler
Die Weihnachtsgeschichte

Finzi
7 Poems of Robert Bridges

Fauré
Messe basse
Requiem

Fux
Missa canonica 

Gombert
Missa Quam pulchra es

Gounod
Seven Last Words of Christ

Hahn
Chansons et madrigaux

Hassler
Missa Dixit Maria

Herzogenberg
4 Choral-Motetten, Op. 102

Hindemith
6 chansons

Howells
Mass in [the] Dorian Mode
Requiem

Langlais
Messe en style ancien

Lassus
Prophetiae sibyllarum (cycle of madrigals)
Standomi un giorno (cycle of madrigals)

Lauridsen
6 Fire Songs

Lotti
Missa brevis in d minor

Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
3 motets, op. 69

Mendelssohn-Hensel
Gartenlieder, op 3

Monteverdi
Lamento d'Arianna (cycle of madrigals)
Mass for four voices (1641)

Ockeghem
Requiem

Obrecht
Missa sub tuum praesidium

Palestrina
Canticum canticorum (cycle of motets)
Missa Hodie Christus natus est a 8
Missa Lauda Sion

Parry
Songs of Farewell

Pärt
Magnificat
Which was the son of...

Persichetti
Mass 

Poulenc
Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël

Ramsey
Jubliate Deo for double choir
Te Deum for double choir

Ravel
3 chansons

Rheinberger
9 Advent motets, Op. 176
Mass in Eb, Cantus missae, Op. 109

Saint-Saens
2 Choruses, Op. 68
Christmas Oratorio, Op. 12

D. Scarlatti
Stabat Mater a 10

Schoenberg
3 Folksongs, op. 49

Schutz
St. John Passion

Stanford
Magnificat in B flat for 8 voices, Op. 164

Thompson, Randall
The Peaceable Kingdom 

Victoria
Missa Ave maris stella
Requiem a 4
Tenebrae

Vierne
Messe solennelle