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Vocalist Liz Pearse has alternately been described as a “badass”, having “a near-psychic understanding of what a composer is trying to accomplish”, and possessing “a voice made of arrows forged in a volcanic pit, transforming the didactic and mundanely intellectual into actual fire”. After a childhood spent playing every instrument she could find, Liz has focused her career on exploring the infinite possibilities of the human voice. Though Liz is known as a specialist in contemporary vocal repertoire, she enjoys a well-aged song.

Liz enjoys work as a solo artist and as a chamber musician, and has performed all over North America (from Canada to Mexico and coast-to-coast in the USA) and in both Europe and the United Kingdom. Liz has commissioned and performed over a dozen works for solo singer/pianist, and the focus of her dissertation, Roger Reynolds’ Sketchbook for The Unbearable Lightness of Being, was recently recorded and released on the double album For a Reason with Neuma Records. Though solo performance and self-accompanying is a large part of her practice, Liz has a voracious appetite for the camaraderie of chamber music, mostly with her quartet Quince and the Damselfly Trio. When she’s not performing, Liz lives and teaches in the beautiful Driftless region of Minnesota. More information about Liz can be found at lizpearse.com

Including The Diver for Soprano and (Self-Accompanying) Piano (Megan Levad Beisner, poet; Andrea Reinkemeyer, composer)

Florian Conzetti's proposal for Performances & Lecture-Recitals was accepted for the 67th CMS National Conference: "A Pioneering Composer Readings and Chamber Music Mentorship Program for Professional Student Development." This features my program, the Lacroute Composer Readings and Chamber Music Mentorship Program at Linfield University through the performance of my Red Flame with student works developed through the program.

Presentation in room Columbia A