Happy Birthday Mozart!
Friday, January 27, 2017
7:30 PM
James Laughlin Music Hall
Kathy Soroka, mezzo soprano, Desiree Soteres, soprano, Kelly Lynch, soprano, Robert Frankenberry, piano, Pauline Rovkah and Yeeha Chiu, piano.
Katherine Soroka's singing has been acclaimed as "masterful" and "heroic" by the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. She has performed with the Pittsburgh Jewish Music Festival and sung in recital in Kresge Auditorium and Levy Hall in Pittsburgh.
Desiree Soteres is involved with musical theater and the opera. She began her professional career as an apprentice with the Portland Opera and has appeared with opera companies throughout the U.S.
Pittsburgh based soprano Kelly Fiona Lynch’s most recent successes include the title role in Verdi’s Aïda and Bellini's Norma for Undercroft Opera. Kelly was featured this summer at Opera Theater's Summerfest as Miss Darlington in Night Caps. Kelly also covered the title roles in Opera Theater of Pittsburgh's production of Strauss' Ariadne on Naxos, as well as Lizbeth, by Thomas Albert, for Microscopic Opera.
Robert Frankenberry leads a career as a tenor, pianist, and conductor. Although he began his vocal career as an actor singing comic roles, he has more recently performed such roles as Don Jose in Carmen, Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, and the title roles in The Tales of Hoffmann and Don Carlo. Also active as a vocal recitalist, he performs regularly in New York for the Phoenix Concerts and PRISM Projects.
Pauline Rovkah is a concert pianist, an award winner of the Pittsburgh Concert Society and the Head of Piano Program at Chatham University who holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Kharkov Special Music School and from the Kharkov Conservatory (Kotlyarevsky State University of Arts), Ukraine.
Yeeha Chiu is a pianist born in Hong-Kong and graduated from the Royal college of Music and the Juilliard School. She has taught at Juilliard and Duquesne University.
All artist bio's were taken from their website or the university they are affiliated with.
Registration
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