FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 20, 1999
CONTACT: Lisa Lacher, (515) 271-3119
PROGRAM OF RUSSIAN SONGS TO BE PERFORMED OCT. 2
Mezzo-soprano Katherine Eberle, a faculty member at the University of Iowa School of Music, will present a program of Russian songs on Saturday, Oct. 2, at Drake University. The performance, which is free and open to the public, will start at 8 p.m. on the Jordan Stage in Sheslow Auditorium in Old Main, 26th Street and University Avenue.
Eberle will present songs by some of the best known and most significant Russian composers of the 19th and 20th centuries; starting with the Romantic composers Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Alexander Borodin and Sergei Rachmaninoff, continuing with the 20th-century modernists Sergei Prokofiev and Igor Stravinsky, and concluding with Dmitri Shostakovich.
She will be accompanied by pianist Ksenia Nosikova, a Russian native and faculty member at the University of Iowa. Eberle, who has presented a wide variety of song programs since joining the University of Iowa faculty in 1991, said Nosikova was the inspiration for the current program.
"I was so thrilled to hear Ksenia play Russian repertoire last year on her recital," Eberle said. "When I heard her play, I really wanted to present a program with her. Her obvious native background and stunning ability to play that repertoire with such feeling and nuance made me take on the daunting task."
A native of Akron, Ohio, Eberle has performed internationally in opera, concert and solo recitals. She has appeared with the opera theater of Lille, France, the Academy of the West, the Carmel Bach Festival, the Aspen Festival Opera Theatre, the American Institute of Music Studies in Graz, Austria, and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.
Nosikova has performed as both soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States and Europe. She made her New York debut in 1996 in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. She has been a prize winner in numerous piano competitions, including the Frinna Awerbach International Piano Competition in New York.
For more information, call (515) 271-3975.