Syracuse University

Soprano Julianna Sabol, faculty member and co-chair of the voice department in the
Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music in Syracuse University's
College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), will present the recital 'An April Soiree'
on Wednesday, April 15, at 8 p.m. in the Rose and Jules R. Setnor Auditorium,
Crouse College. The recital is free and open to the public. Parking is available in
Irving Garage.

Sabol will be assisted by three Setnor faculty members: Ken Meyer, guitar; Ida
Trebicka, piano; and Gregory Woods, cello. The first half of the program will include
works by Gounod, Massenet, Henessy, Heggie, Mozart, Schubert, Moniuszko, Tosti
and Rachmaninoff. The second half will feature works for voice and guitar, including
the "Canciones Espa?olas Antiguas," authentic, rarely performed Spanish folksongs
collected and arranged by Garcia Lorca. Other folk song settings by Britten, Leisner
and Copland will also be performed.

About the performers:

• Sabol has given concerts in Canada, the United States and Poland as a soloist
  with orchestras, as a recitalist and on the opera stage. She is a winner of such
  prestigious competitions as the National Opera Association, the Jerome Hill
  Memorial Award in the Metropolitan Opera auditions, the National
  Association of Teachers of Singing artist auditions and the Mu Phi Epsilon
  International Competition. She has appeared as a soloist for consecutive
  seasons with the Platteville, Wis., Summer Music Festival; with the Bach Aria
  Festival in Stonybrook, N.Y.; and in chamber music performances with the
  Syracuse Camerata, in the Dorothy Goff Frisch Concert Series and as recital
  soloist in her New York City Merkin Concert Hall debut.
  

  
  

• Since winning the national first prize at the Music Teachers National
  Association Collegiate Artist Competition, Meyer continues to appear in
  recital, as a chamber musician and as a soloist with orchestra in venues
  throughout North America, South America and Europe. His commitment to
  cultivate, perform and record the music of his generation's leading composers
  has garnered awards from the Barlow Endowment, the Argosy Foundation
  and the Hanson Institute for American Music. He continues to be a featured
  lecturer, performer, adjudicator and teacher at festivals, colleges and
  universities throughout the United States and abroad.
  

  
  

• Trebicka has performed throughout the United States, Europe and China as
  an orchestral soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. She has been featured
  on National Radio-Television, Italian Broadcasting Corp. RAI 2, Radio
  Ancona-Italy, WCNY in Syracuse and WBFO in Buffalo. She has performed
  chamber music concerts with members of the London, Paris, Athens, Rome,
  Munich and Bari-Italy Symphonic orchestras. She collaborates frequently
  with Syracuse Symphony Orchestra (SSO) members in annual chamber
  music concerts.
  

  
  

• Wood is assistant principal cellist with the SSO. He has performed with the
  Aspen Festival Orchestra and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, including
  its tour to Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center. He has performed for the
  Skaneateles Festival, the Society for New Music, Civic Morning Musicals and
  Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music. He has also performed as a soloist with
  the SSO, Pro Musica of Cincinnati, the CCM Concert Orchestra as a winner of
  its concerto competition and with the SU Symphony Orchestra.
  

  
  For more information, contact the Setnor School at (315) 443-2191.
  

  
  VPA is committed to the education of cultural leaders who will engage and inspire
  audiences through performance, visual art, design, scholarship and commentary. The
  college provides the tools for self-discovery and risk-taking in an environment that
  thrives on critical thought and action. Learn more at http://vpa.syr.edu.