Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program Presents
Graduate Degree Recital: Samantha Martin, soprano
with Collaborative Pianist Elias Dagher
Saturday, May 7, 2022
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
with Elias Dagher, piano
Samantha Martin is a second year in Bard College Conservatory’s Graduate Vocal Arts Program, where she studies with Edith Bers and Lucy Fitz Gibbon. An avid supporter of new music, Samantha has premiered and performed works by numerous contemporary composers, including Sheila Silver, Clarice Assad, Michael Csányi-Wills, Daron Hagen, Julianna Hall, John Musto, Györgi Kurtág, Libby Larsen, James Mobberly, and George Crumb. She has also work-shopped and performed in the world premiere of Tom Cipullo’s opera, Mayo, as Miss Goodrich and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. She will be performing works by Lanie Fefferman and Daniel Schlosberg in the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Festival Continuing Evolution: Yiddish Folksong Today. This summer, Samantha will be interning with the chorus of Bard Summerscape’s 2022 Die Schweigsame Frau. Additional opera credits include Lauretta in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, Buoso’s Ghost by Michael Ching and Laurie in Copland’s The Tender Land. She was also a featured recitalist at the 2021 Bard Music Festival’s Nadia Boulanger and her World. Named a winner in the Bard Conservatory’s 2020 Concerto Competition, she will appear with The Orchestra Now in September 2022 performing George Walker’s Lilacs. During her time at Bard, she also appeared in the Bard Vocal Arts Program’s production of Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Medium as Monica and Leoš Janáček’s Cunning Little Vixen as Kohout. Samantha received her Bachelor of Music majoring in Voice Performance and Music Business from the State University of New York at Potsdam. In her downtime, Samantha enjoys playing the viola and trying new pescatarian recipes with all of the fresh vegetables that the Hudson Valley has to offer.This event will also be live-streamed HERE
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space