The Department of Music at Gustavus Adolphus College has scheduled a weekend of senior and junior recitals in Jussi Björling Recital Hall including Patrick Pisani, piano; Brittney Raasch, horn; a joint vocal recital by Anna Giles, mezzo soprano and Joseph Thomas, tenor; and concluding with Antonio Herbert, flute. The recitals are open to the public. Admission is free.
Senior Pianist Patrick Pisani opens the weekend schedule with his solo recital at 7:30 p.m., Friday, April 20. His program includes Fantasie in D minor, KV 397 by W. A. Mozart, Robert Schumann’s Kinderszenen, Op. 15 and the Piano Sonata in D minor, Op. 31, No. 2 by Ludwig van Beethoven.
Brittney Raasch will present her senior horn recital on Saturday, April 21 beginning at 1:30 p.m. Her program includes solo works for horn, Peter Muller’s Wind Quintet No. 1 in Eb Major (assisted by the Kalmar Quintet) and a Jack Gale arrangements of works from Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story, for which Brittney will be joined by the members of the Christ Chapel Brass.
Sunday’s recital schedule opens with a joint junior voice recital by Anna Giles, mezzo soprano and tenor Joseph Thomas. Performance time is 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 22. Accompanied by pianists Bonnie Jorgensen and Yanna Georgas, the two vocalists will perform solo works by Scarlatti, Fauré, Vaughan Williams and Mozart. The program includes contemporary musical theatre works by Loewe, Schönberg and Jason Robert Brown and concludes, with assistance by soprano Kelsey Francis and Elliot Bell, baritone (the other 2 members of The Escape Tones), in performances of Adler and Ross’ Hernando’s Hideaway from The Pajama Game and Bob Russell’s He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother.
At 3:30 p.m., Sunday, junior flutist Antonio Herbert will take Björling stage to present his solo recital. He will be accompanied by pianist Benjamin Marti and guitarist Michael Pittman in his performance of the Allegretto movement from Benjamin Godard’s Suite de Trois Morceaux, the Sonatine by Henri Dutilleux, and L’Histoire du Tango by Astor Piazzolla. The final work on the program is a piece composed by Antonio and performed with assistance from the band Neon and the Nobel Gases, Jazz Funk: FlutentoxUcation Improvisation.
The weekend recitals in Jussi Björling Recital Hall are free and open to the public.
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