Saturday, June 3, 2023 From 7:00 PM To 8:30 PM Add to Calendar 2023-06-03 19:00:00 2023-06-03 20:30:00 Opera Night performance: La Voix Humaine Composed in 1958 by French composer Francis Poulenc, La voix humaine is a one-act chamber opera scored for a single voice and piano. The work features a text by Jean Cocteau, and details one side of a conversation between two lovers as they navigate their relationship over the phone. French Library, 53 Marlborough St, Boston, Massachusetts, United States America/New_York
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About Brian Moll
Brian Moll is a vocal coach and instructor of French song repertory at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee as well as the chair of vocal and keyboard studies at the Longy School of Music of Bard College. He is also on the faculty of the New England Conservatory, where he is an instructor of the French art song. As a keyboardist, Moll has worked with Emmanuel Music, Boston Baroque, and the Handel and Haydn Society chorus and orchestra. He also served as assistant conductor and pianist for stage productions by the Boston Lyric Opera, Opera North, and Boston Midsummer Opera. He has appeared at the Strings in the Mountains Festival (Colorado) and at the New Hampshire Music Festival, and he has been on the summer faculty of the Lied Austria program (Graz, Austria). A graduate of Hamilton College, Moll earned further degrees from the Hochschule für Musik (Vienna, Austria) and the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance, where he studied with Martin Katz. While in Vienna, he earned diplomas with distinction in piano and organ and also taught as a Fulbright teaching assistant. He has given recitals as a pianist and organist in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Bulgaria, and throughout the United States, and he has performed with singers Barbara Kilduff, Barbara Quintiliani, Sheri Greenawald, Wolfgang Brendel, Sir Thomas Allen, Kevin Deas, Yeghishe Manucharyan, Kelly Kaduce, Andrew Garland, Pamela Dellal, and Sara Heaton. Moll has appeared in such prestigious halls as Vienna's Mozartsaal, Austria's Haydnsaal at the Esterhazy Castle, Tokyo's Lilia Hall, and Boston's Jordan Hall.
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