Contact: Kenneth Billings
STARKVILLE, Miss.--Minnesota-based soprano Carrie Henneman Shaw will be featured in a free recital Friday [Feb. 22] at Mississippi State.
Sponsored by the university's music department, the program begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Bettersworth Auditorium of Giles Hall.
Accompanied on the piano by Karen Murphy of the campus department, Shaw's performance will feature her distinctive operatic talents in works by such noted American composers as Ernst Bacon, Charles Ives and Dominick Argento.
The featured selection will be a multimedia presentation of Argento's Pulitzer Prize winning "From the Diary of Virginia Woolf," including dramatic readings by Sara-Claire Lightsey and Markii Bout and archival photos of Woolf.
Shaw has been recognized among the country's emerging talents in contemporary and Baroque repertoires. A Kentucky native, she holds a master's degree in performance from the University of Minnesota.
After making an orchestral debut with the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra, she has collaborated regularly with vocal and instrumental ensembles in Illinois, Texas and Minnesota. She premiered recently with the Sapphire Chamber Consort in Dimitri Shapovalov's "Prayer."
The consort is based in Minneapolis, where Shaw also resides.
For additional information, contact the music department at 662-325-3070.
For more information about Mississippi State University, see http://www.msstate.edu/.