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Cinco de Mayo Celebration -- Monday, May 3 at 8 PM!
North/South Consonance, Inc. will mark the Cinco de Mayo holiday with a special recital featuring American soprano Lori McCann accompanied by pianist Max Lifchitz. The event will be held on Monday May 3 at 8 PM. It will take place at the auditorium of Christ & St Stephen’s Church (120 West 69th St) in Manhattan. Admission is free.
The program is built around art songs by composers from Spain, Argentina and México, including Federico García Lorca, Carlos Guastavino, Manuel M. Ponce, Silvestre Revueltas and Joaquín Turina.
Lori McCann, lyric soprano, has performed opera, oratorio and recitals throughout the US and abroad. She has appeared with, among others, the Berliner Kammeroper and the Neue Operabühne in Germany; and the Virginia Opera, Chautauqua Opera, the Opera Company of Brooklyn; the Whitewater Opera, the Shreveport Opera, Sorg Opera and the Pacific Chamber Opera in the US.
An Assistant Professor of Voice at Montclair State University’s John J. Cali School of Music, McCann trained at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, San Diego State University, and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. A Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Finalist she also earned top honors in the Opera Columbus Competition as well as San Diego’s Virginia Hawk Young Artist Awards.
Dr. McCann has presented recitals, lectures and master classes featuring Spanish and Latin American repertoire at the Barcelona Festival of Song in Barcelona; New York University’s summer intensive Spanish Vocal Program, and the Spanish and Latin American Vocal Repertoire Workshop sponsored by the National Associations of Teachers of Singing in San Diego. The current President of the New York City Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, McCann also serves on the Board of Directors for the New York Singing Teacher’s Association.
Active as pianist ad composer Max Lifchitz was awarded first prize in the 1976 International Gaudeamus Competition for Performers of Twentieth Century Music held in Holland. Robert Commanday, writing for The San Francisco Chronicle described him as "a young composer of brilliant imagination and a stunning, ultra-sensitive pianist” while the New York Times music critic Allan Kozinn praised Mr. Lifchitz for his "clean, measured and sensitive performances.” Jack Sullivan, reviewing his most recent solo releases for the American Record Guide stated: “Max Lifchitz, for whom much of the music featured in Final Bell (N/S R 1044) was written, plays with his usual brave authority, and North/South’s sound has a large, much-needed dynamic range.” And concerning American Women Composers (N/S R 1043) Mr. Sullivan wrote: “better to celebrate this engaging collection of new music played with color and commitment by one of America’s finest exponents of contemporary piano music.”
North/South Consonance’s 2009-10 season is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; grants from the Alice M. Ditson Fund at Columbia University, the Music Performance Funds of Local 802 and the Zethus Fund for Contemporary Music. Contributions by many generous individuals are gratefully acknowledged. For further information about North/South Consonance activities, including upcoming concerts and recordings, please visit
http://www.northsouthmusic.org
To stream and/or download the more than fifty albums comprised in North/South Recordings catalogue please visit
http://www.classicsonline/North_South_Recordings/
The program is built around art songs by composers from Spain, Argentina and México, including Federico García Lorca, Carlos Guastavino, Manuel M. Ponce, Silvestre Revueltas and Joaquín Turina.
Lori McCann, lyric soprano, has performed opera, oratorio and recitals throughout the US and abroad. She has appeared with, among others, the Berliner Kammeroper and the Neue Operabühne in Germany; and the Virginia Opera, Chautauqua Opera, the Opera Company of Brooklyn; the Whitewater Opera, the Shreveport Opera, Sorg Opera and the Pacific Chamber Opera in the US.
An Assistant Professor of Voice at Montclair State University’s John J. Cali School of Music, McCann trained at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, San Diego State University, and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. A Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Finalist she also earned top honors in the Opera Columbus Competition as well as San Diego’s Virginia Hawk Young Artist Awards.
Dr. McCann has presented recitals, lectures and master classes featuring Spanish and Latin American repertoire at the Barcelona Festival of Song in Barcelona; New York University’s summer intensive Spanish Vocal Program, and the Spanish and Latin American Vocal Repertoire Workshop sponsored by the National Associations of Teachers of Singing in San Diego. The current President of the New York City Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, McCann also serves on the Board of Directors for the New York Singing Teacher’s Association.
Active as pianist ad composer Max Lifchitz was awarded first prize in the 1976 International Gaudeamus Competition for Performers of Twentieth Century Music held in Holland. Robert Commanday, writing for The San Francisco Chronicle described him as "a young composer of brilliant imagination and a stunning, ultra-sensitive pianist” while the New York Times music critic Allan Kozinn praised Mr. Lifchitz for his "clean, measured and sensitive performances.” Jack Sullivan, reviewing his most recent solo releases for the American Record Guide stated: “Max Lifchitz, for whom much of the music featured in Final Bell (N/S R 1044) was written, plays with his usual brave authority, and North/South’s sound has a large, much-needed dynamic range.” And concerning American Women Composers (N/S R 1043) Mr. Sullivan wrote: “better to celebrate this engaging collection of new music played with color and commitment by one of America’s finest exponents of contemporary piano music.”
North/South Consonance’s 2009-10 season is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; grants from the Alice M. Ditson Fund at Columbia University, the Music Performance Funds of Local 802 and the Zethus Fund for Contemporary Music. Contributions by many generous individuals are gratefully acknowledged. For further information about North/South Consonance activities, including upcoming concerts and recordings, please visit
http://www.northsouthmusic.org
To stream and/or download the more than fifty albums comprised in North/South Recordings catalogue please visit
http://www.classicsonline/North_South_Recordings/
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