Faculty Recital: Dr. Yi-Lan Niu

April 16, 2023 @ 2pm in Birder Hall
Free Admission
Faculty Concert Series: Words & Songs featuring  Wisconsin’s natural vitality thrives in a new way: SNC Music faculty, Dr. Yi-Lan Niu and staff accompanist Mrs. Elaine Moss, present a concert that features stories about nature from a clever boy’s imagination written and performed by journalist and critic Mr. Warren Gerds. The music will be performed to enhance and complement Mr. Gerds' storytelling.

Bios
Mr. Warren Gerds
Warren Gerds is a lifetime resident of Wisconsin. He holds a degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is most known as a critic at large, first with the Green Bay Press-Gazette and then at WFRV-TV in Green Bay. Gerds has written 10 nonfiction and fiction books held by the Library of Congress. The manual typewriter his parents gifted him in college is held by the Neville Public Museum. During the 2018 bicentennial of Brown County, Gerds’ typewriter was among 200 notables of the county’s history. The display included his father’s instruction for his career: “Get it Right.”

Mrs. Elaine Moss
Mrs. Elaine Moss is staff accompanist at St. Norbert College. She has pursued extended studies at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, UW-Milwaukee, and the Universite de Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, France. She enjoys a varied career collaborating and concertizing with guest artists and numerous singers and instrumentalists.

Dr. Yi-Lan Niu
Dr. Niu has been acclaimed for her performances of major works including “Gloria” by Antonio Vivaldi, “Messiah” by George Frideric Handel, “Carmina Burana” by Carl Orff, “Lord Nelson Mass” by Joseph Haydn and Magnificat by John Rutter. Her numerous operatic roles include Clorinda in Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, Costanza in La Griselda, Serpina in La Serva Padrona, Sandman from Hansel & Gretel, Diane from Orpheus in the Underworld and Papagena in The Magic Flute. Collaborating frequently with classical guitarist Dr. Christopher Cramer, Niu promotes a wide range of music written for voice and guitar. The Niu-Cramer Duo has performed throughout North America and Asia, including the United States, Canada, Taiwan and Singapore. Niu also actively premieres vocal pieces written for her, including Requiem by New York-based composer Alexander Nohai-Seaman and the contemporary song cycle Yuan Songs by Dr. Chi-Wei Hui from Hong Kong, song cycle titled Depárt by Dr. John Hennecken and Flower Theme by Ms. Shing-Ying Lin. Her vocal album, "Chantemet Souf rir -Sacred Music by Gounod,” was released by Centaur Records globally in spring 2020. Her other professional recordings include R. Strauss’ 4 Lieder, No.21 and Quattro Canzoni d’Amaranta by F.P.Tosti.

This concert will also be livestreamed here - https://www.snc.edu/academics/visual-performing-arts/music/livestreams.html

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