Visiting Scholar Jie Zhou, Soprano, Presents Concert at The Crane School of Music

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Soprano Jie Zhou, a visiting scholar at SUNY Potsdam’s Crane School of Music, will present a concert on March 19.

POTSDAM, NY (03/10/2015)(readMedia)-- SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music will host a recital featuring a visiting scholar, soprano Jie Zhou, on Thursday, March 19 at 7:30 p.m. in the Sara M. Snell Music Theater.

Zhou will sing alongside pianist Nancy Hull. They will present works by Hermann Zilcher, Richard Strauss, Margaret Ruthven Lang and Victor Herbert in the first half of the concert.

The performance will conclude with several settings of poetry written by Chinese composers. The musical works include "Feng Qiao Ye Bo (Night Mooring at Maple Bridge)" by Li Yinghai, "Qui San Shou (Three Poems About Autumn)" by Luo Zhongrong, "Chun Si Qu (Longing Spring)" by Tsu Huang, "Chun Jiang Hua Yue Ye (Blossoms on a Moonlit River in Spring)" by Xu Jingxin and "Li Hua Song (Ewha Song from Royal Datang) by Yang Nailin.

About the performer:

Jie Zhou, soprano, is a visiting scholar at The Crane School of Music for 2014-15. She has been a voice teacher at the Nanjing University of the Arts School of Music since 2009. Zhou received a bachelor's degree in vocal performance and a master's degree in vocal music from the China Conservatory of Music in Beijing, where she studied Italian and opera performance. She gave a performance in a concert of the 16th Annual Meeting of Chinese Traditional Music and performed in the Mid-Autumn Evening Party on China TV. Zhou has participated in the Opera Festival in Pesaro, Italy, and has performed in concert in Nanjing and Beijing, in collaboration with artists like soprano Song Haiyan, tenor Xie Kun, pianist Lin Su and violinist Sheng Zhongguo. Additionally, Zhou has participated in many performances at various national, provincial and municipal concert venues. Her students have won the Award of Excellence in the National Vocal Competition and several students are engaged in music-related work such as acting as college music teachers and on the stage. Zhou won the Bronze Prize in the Yangtze River Delta Young Singers Bel Canto Competition. She obtained Honorable Mention in Young Teachers' Outstanding Performance at Nanjing University of the Arts. She won the Second Prize in the Third National Opera Contest of Art Colleges and obtained the Third Place in the Italian "Holy Angel" Cup International Vocal Competition. Zhou published "The Contemporary Golden Soprano: Renée Fleming, Art of Singing," and "The Most Delicate Female, the Most Sad Whoop: The Role Analysis of the Heroine Charlotte in the Opera of Werther." She has also explored the creation of new forms of opera performance, combining classic technique with new media technologies.

This concert will be broadcast live on the SUNY Potsdam website at the performance time. To view the program and see other upcoming streaming performances, visit www.potsdam.edu/academics/Crane/streaming.

For more information about SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music, please visit www.potsdam.edu/crane.

Founded in 1886, SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music has a long legacy of excellence in music education and performance. Life at Crane includes an incredible array of more than 300 recitals, lectures and concerts presented by faculty, students and guests each year. The Crane School of Music is the State University of New York's only All-Steinway institution.

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