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Faculty Artist Recital – Erica Lazerow Davis, soprano; Kathryn Pisaro, oboe
October 26 at 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
$10 – $22
Erica Lazerow Davis, soprano & Kathryn Pisaro, oboe
October 26 at 7:30 pm Shigemi Matsumoto Recital Hall, $10 – $22
This program features music for voice and oboe performed by Dr. Kathryn Pisaro, oboe, and Erica Lazerow Davis, soprano. Two world premieres by CSUN-affiliated composers will be on the program: Elizabeth Sellers’ Ask Us, for voice, English horn, and piano and Kyle Simpson’s new work for voice, oboe, guitar and horn. Also, on the program are works by Ruth Gibbs, The Three Billy Goats Gruff for narrator, oboe, bassoon, and horn, Villanelle for voice, oboe and piano by Eva dell’Acqua, the Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano by Francis Poulenc, and Vivaldi’s Gloria for voice and oboe with bassoon and guitar on continuo. Erica Lazerow Davis will be performing songs for voice and piano by Ned Rorem, Benjamin Britten, and Joaquin Rodrigo. Guest artists include CSUN faculty and staff Yoko Mizuno, piano, Leah Kohn, bassoon, Annie Bosler, horn and Steven Thachuk, guitar.
Soprano Erica Lazerow Davis joined the CSUN faculty in 2012. With a voice the LA Times called “opulent,” Ms. Davis is known for her beautiful high notes and sparkling interpretations. She has sung with the Independent Opera Company, Mesopotamian Opera, Vineyard Touring Opera, and LA Metropolitan Opera. Her concert performances have included Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s Cantata 80, and Britten’s The Company of Heaven. An avid recital singer, she has performed numerous recitals at CSUN and throughout Los Angeles. Ms. Davis is a founding member of the chamber ensemble Convivia, and she is featured on its CD O sacrum convivium.
Kathryn Gleasman Pisaro, is active as an oboist and a music historian. As an oboist, she has performed with hundreds of artists and ensembles, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Andrea Bocelli, Luciano Pavarotti, the Moody Blues, Ray Charles, Garth Brooks, and has performed for presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush. She has played in several touring Broadway productions, including Phantom of the Opera, Cabaret, and Les Misérables. She has made recordings of solo contemporary music for oboe, recorded with jazz ensembles in Chicago and LA, and is on two albums with the rock band Poi Dog Pondering, Pomegranate and Great White Light. She has toured Europe six times as a new music soloist. As a music historian, she received her master’s and PhD degrees in musicology at Northwestern University, with a dissertation on experimental music in Britain in the 1960s. She regularly presents papers at national and international conferences and has written entries for such prestigious publications as the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. She is currently on the faculty at California Institute of the Arts and California State University, Northridge.
