PULLMAN, Wash. – A guest recital and two concerts in the Faculty Artist Series will open the semester of public performances for the School of Music at Washington State University starting Friday, Jan. 13.
Soprano Anne Jennifer Nash, from Concordia College, will present a free concert at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 17, in Bryan Hall, accompanied by Elena Panchenko on piano. Works by Hugo Wolf, Enrique Granados, Leonard Bernstein, Emily Dickinson and others will explore themes of love, loneliness, music – and cats. Learn more about Nash at https://www.concordiacollege.edu/directories/faculty-staff/detail/dr-anne-jennifer-nash/.
The Faculty Artist Series benefits the School of Music scholarship fund. Tickets are available in the lobby 30 minutes before concert time. WSU students are admitted free with ID; admission for others is $10, or $5 for seniors and non-WSU students. The series concerts are:
* Winter Spirits: Music for the Flute will feature Sophia Tegart at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 13, in Bryan Hall. The program will include works by Sofia Gubaidulina, Katherine Hoover, Philippe Gaubert, Nadine Dyskant-Miller and Nino Rota, composer of film scores such as The Godfather, The Godfather II and Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet. Joining Tegart will be WSU’s Jeffrey Savage on piano and Oregon Ballet Orchestra violinist Casey Bozell.
* Music Outside Four Walls will feature Ruth Boden, cello, at 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 19, in Kimbrough Concert Hall. She will present some of her favorite music, stories and experiences from her Music Outside Four Walls project. Learn more at https://archive.news.wsu.edu/2017/01/05/wsu-music-professor-plays-crowds-clouds/ and https://www.musicoutsidefourwalls.org/.
News media contact:
Sandra Lea Albers, WSU School of Music, 509-335-4148, sandra_albers@wsu.edu