Winner of the Eckhardt-Gramatté National Music Competition to perform
The UPEI Music Department is pleased to present soprano Sarah Jo Kirsch, winner the Eckhardt-Gramatté (EGré) National Music Competition, on Tuesday, November 4 at 7:30 pm.
The EGré is the most important annually held contemporary music competition for exceptional emerging Canadian performing artists in piano, voice, and strings. Since 1976, the Eckhardt-Gramatté National Music Competition discovers, develops, and promotes exceptional young Canadian performing musicians who show artistic proficiency, knowledge, and keen interest in Canadian and international repertoire of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Sarah Jo Kirsch is a soprano/vocalist currently based in Winnipeg, Canada. She continues to make waves as a soloist with local ensembles - large and small - and maintains a continuing presence at the WSO New Music Festival, Cluster New Music + Integrated Arts Festival, and Groundswell, Winnipeg's new music concert series.
In the spring of 2014, Kirsch was awarded second-place in the WMC McLellan Competition and first-place in the Eckhardt-Gramatté National Music Competition. Outside of Manitoba this season, Kirsch embarks on a cross-Canada tour with Winnipeg pianist Maddy Hildebrand this fall, and premieres Michael Matthews' new song cycle 'Solo queda el desierto' with L'Orchestre de Chambre de Montréal and performs Mozart's Große Messe in c-moll at the American University of Beirut and Ligeti's Mysteries of the Macabre and Berberian's Stripsody with Calgary's Land's end ensemble in spring.
Kirsch will be accompanied by pianist Madeline Hildebrand. Madeline's love for piano music has directed her path from the age of six, culminating in a Master of Piano Performance from the University of British Columbia under the tutelage of distinguished Canadian artist, Jane Coop, and is presently on the piano faculty at Canadian Mennonite University.
Tickets are $15 or $10 for students and seniors and are available at the door, online at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/890309, or in advance by calling (902) 566-0507. The recital takes place in the Dr. Steel Recital Hall, UPEI.
