West Virginia University voice professor Hope Koehler, a soprano, and guest pianist James Douglass will perform a recital at the Creative Arts Center, Thursday, March 15.

The concert begins at 8:15 p.m. in the Bloch Learning and Performance Hall and is free and open to the public.

The program will include works by composers such as Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), Gian Carlo Menotti (1911-2007), George Gershwin (1898-1937) and Jester Hairston (1901-2000).

Koehler’s voice has been heralded as having “the richness of Marilyn Horne at the bottom and the clarion clarity of Leontyne Price at the top.” She is a regular performer and soloist with the American Spiritual Ensemble and serves on the voice faculty of the Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts, the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts and the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria. She completed her doctorate at the University of Kentucky in Lexington and is currently assistant professor of voice at WVU.

Douglass received a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in piano performance from the University of Alabama. He earned his doctorate in keyboard collaborative arts from the University of Southern California, where he received a Koldofsky Fellowship and the Outstanding Keyboard Collaborative Arts award. He joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro as an assistant professor of collaborative piano and vocal coach in 2005.

For more information on the event, contact the 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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