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Sachie Ueshima DMA Voice Recital

Sachie Ueshima, soprano
Leonardo Quintero, guitar
Thomas Kasdorf, piano

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Program

Letters from Composers       Dominick Argento (1927-2019)
Frédéric Chopin (to a friend)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (to his father)
Franz Schubert (to a friend)
Johann Sebastian Bach (to the Town Council)
Claude Debussy (to a friend)
Giacomo Puccini (to a friend)
Robert Schumann (to his fiancée)

Leonardo Quintero, guitar

Intermission

Knoxville: Summer of 1915      Samuel Barber (1910-1981)

Love Is      Emerson Eads (b. 1980)
When Someone Loves You
Love Is
People Forget
Little Stars
If You Want To Learn
Love is Foolish

From Yamabe no Hana ni yosete      Hideo Kobayashi (1931-2017)
Soba no Hana (Buckwheat Flower)

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Sachie Ueshima, soprano, a native of Wakayama City, Japan, is a second year DMA student in vocal performance studying with Dr. Julia Rottmayer, with a doctoral minor in choral conducting. She won the UW-Madison Concerto Competition and has most recently performed Alban Berg’s Sieben frühe Lieder with UW-Madison Symphony Orchestra.

She has recently performed the lead role of Krystyna Zywulska in Jake Heggie’s Two Remain (Out of Darkness) with University Opera at UW-Madison. Her other operatic credits include Sœur Constance in Dialogues des Carmélites, Drusilla in L’incoronazione di Poppea, Pamina and Königin der Nacht in Die Zauberflöte, and Lady with a Hand Mirror in Postcard from Morocco. Also active in concert works, she has made her appearances as a soloist in Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor, Bach’s B minor Mass, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Händel’s Messiah to name a few. Sachie was honored to sing as a soloist at the opening mass of Festival Internazionale di Musica Sacra at St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican in 2015.

She earned the Bachelor of Music, the Master of Arts, and the Artist Diploma in voice from Queens College of the City University of New York.