Pianist Lucy Mauro, of the West Virginia University music faculty, will present a concert of vocal chamber music with lyric tenor Donald George, associate professor of voice at the Crane School of Music, State University of New York at Potsdam, Saturday (Oct. 30) at the Creative Arts Center.

The event begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Bloch Learning and Performance Hall (200A) and is free and open to the public. There will also be a public reception immediately following the concert in the Green Room of the CAC on the first floor.

Other WVU music faculty members on the program include Francesca Arnone, flute, Hope Koehler, soprano, Mikylah McTeer, violin, and William Skidmore, cello. They will be joined by additional guest artists from SUNY Potsdam, including David Heinick, piano, and Anna Hendrickson, flute, as well as MeeAe Nam, soprano, who is from Eastern Michigan University.

The program will include: “Cantata, BWV 145” by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750); “The soft complaining flute” from “Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day” by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759); “The Giraffes Go To Hamburg” by Andr� Previn (b. 1929); “La mort du nombre” (The Death of Multitudes) by Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992); “Sull’aria” Duet from the opera “Le Nozze di Figaro” (The Marriage of Figaro) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791); and “Valentines” by David Heinick (b. 1954).

Mauro and George perform nationally and internationally in their duo, Duodrama, presenting recitals, workshops and master classes and specializing in such areas as the 19th-Century German melodrama and the art of collaborative performance.

Mauro is a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, where she studied with Ann Schein and Julio Esteban and from which she received bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees.

An internationally known opera singer, George is an established lyric tenor in the opera houses and concert halls of Europe and also an Honored Professor at Shenyang Conservatory in China.

For more information about the recital, contact the WVU College of Creative Arts at (304) 293-4359.

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CONTACT: Charlene Lattea, College of Creative Arts
304-293-4359, Charlene.Lattea@mail.wvu.edu

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