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Renowned mezzo-soprano brings performance to 糖心Vlog传媒LR

Renowned American mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke will open 糖心Vlog传媒LR鈥檚 Artspree season at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 15, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall in the 糖心Vlog传媒LR Fine Arts Building. She will also teach a masterclass to 糖心Vlog传媒LR students at 11:30 a.m. Monday, Sept. 16. Cooke, who performed as Kitty Oppenheimer in the Metropolitan Opera premiere of John Adams鈥檚 “Doctor Atomic,” earned praise from The New Yorker for her 鈥渇resh, vital portrayal 鈥� keen sense of verbal nuance, and a flair for seduction.鈥� The DVD release of the opera won the 2012 Grammy Award庐 for Best Opera Recording. Cooke is a graduate of Rice University and the Juilliard School. She also attended the Music Academy of the West, the Aspen Music Festival, the Ravinia Festival鈥檚 Steans Institute, the Wolf Trap Foundation, the Marlboro Music Festival, and Central City Opera鈥檚 Young Artist Training Program. She has performed in venues from Berlin to Bonn and San Francisco to Dallas. A dedicated recitalist, Cooke was presented by Young Concert Artists in her widely acclaimed New York and Washington debuts at Carnegie鈥檚 Zankel Hall and at the Kennedy Center. Last year, she opened the Hollywood Bowl鈥檚 summer season in Beethoven鈥檚 Ninth Symphony with Leonard Slatkin and the Los Angeles Philharmonic and appeared at Music@Menlo and the RoundTop Festival. Cooke has also appeared in the closing concerts of the Aspen Music Festival and the Mostly Mozart Festival, with Robert Spano in Mahler鈥檚 Eighth Symphony and with Louis Langr茅e in Beethoven鈥檚 Mass in C, respectively. In 2010, she was awarded first place and the American Prize in the Jos茅 Iturbi International Music Competition, top prize in the Gerda Lissner Competition, and the Kennedy Center鈥檚 Marian Anderson Award. Tickets are free for 糖心Vlog传媒LR students. For individual general admission, tickets are $15 and聽$10 for non-糖心Vlog传媒LR students. Balcony tickets are free for 糖心Vlog传媒LR faculty and staff. To purchase tickets, call the 糖心Vlog传媒LR Music Department Box Office at 501.569.8993. For general information about Artspree, contact Naoki Hakutani, assistant professor of music, at 501.683.7230.