Guest lutenist David Walker will join soprano Kristine Hurst-Wajszczuk, DMA, in a faculty recital featuring the lute songs of John Dowland on Monday, Sept. 15.
Hurst-Wajszczuk is associate professor of voice and opera in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Music. She is especially interested in early music, and in 2008, Centaur released her solo recording of Dowland lute songs. She has performed and lectured on the sociopolitical background of the songs internationally. In 2010, she was a participant in Early Music Vancouver’s Baroque Vocal Programme, “The Compleat Singer.”
The recital is set for 7 p.m. in UAB’s Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center, Reynolds-Kirschbaum Recital Hall, 1200 10th Ave. South. Admission is free. Call 205-934-7376. The Department of Music is part of the UAB College of Arts and Sciences. Visit the Department of Music online at www.uab.edu/cas/music.
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