West Virginia University music faculty pianist Lucy Mauro will present a recital with lyric tenor Donald George, who is an associate professor of voice at the Crane School of Music at State University of New York (SUNY) Potsdam, on Tuesday, Sept. 22. The event is free and open to the public.
Titled “The Lady of Boston and Munich: From Brimmer Street to Brienner Strasse, The Songs of Margaret Ruthven Lang,” the concert will begin at 8:15 p.m. in the Bloch Learning and Performing Hall Room 200A of the Creative Arts Center.
Margaret Ruthven Lang was the first female composer to have a work performed by an American orchestra and was a prominent composer in America in the early 20th century. The concert will feature narration, projected images and songs that span Lang’s compositional career.
Mauro and George perform nationally and internationally in their duo, Duodrama, presenting recitals, workshops and master classes. They specialize in areas such as 19th century German melodrama and collaborative performance arts. They have written articles for American Music Teacher and the international journal, Die Tonkunst.
Dr. Mauro is a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory of the John Hopkins University, from which she received bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees and where she studied with Ann Schein and Julio Esteban.
In 2008, she and George were guest artists at the Asolo Song Festival and Institute in Italy and for the International Performing Arts Institute in Germany, where Mauro is also a member of the faculty. They also performed this summer at the 2009 Mozart Festival in Wuerzburg, Germany.
George will be an adjunct guest artist-in-residence at the WVU Division of Music this year.
An internationally known opera singer, he is an established lyric tenor in the opera houses and concert halls of Europe. He sang at the Paris Opera, La Scala, the Royal Opera of Brussels, the Kennedy Center, and the State Operas of Berlin, Hamburg and Vienna. He has also performed at the Festivals of Salzburg, Buenos Aires, Jerusalem, Istanbul, Blossom USA with Leonard Bernstein, Kurt Masur, Yehudi Menuhin and Jeffrey Tate and recorded for Sony Classics, Phillips Classics, Teldec, Naxos, Bavarian Radio and others. For more information, see George’s Web site at http://www.donaldgeorge.de.
The Web site for DuoDrama is http://www.duodrama.net.
For more information about the recital, contact the WVU College of Creative Arts at (304) 293-4841, Ext. 3108.
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CONTACT: Charlene Lattea, College of Creative Arts
304-293-4841 ext. 3108, Charlene.Lattea@mail.wvu.edu