Vassar College presents ‘Recital of French Melodies and Piano Music,’ November 16

Richard Osborne, bass-baritone, and Jeanne Golan, piano, will present a "Recital of French Melodies and Piano Music" on Saturday, November 16, at 8 p.m. in the Skinner Recital Hall, Vassar College.

The evening's program will include works by Gabriel Faure, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, and Henri Duparc. The concert, sponsored by the Department of Music is free and open to the public.

Osborne is an adjunct lecturer in music at Vassar College. He has sung over 40 roles in his operatic career at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Royal Albert Hall in London, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Victoria Hall in Singapore, the Gran Teatro in Havana, and Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, among others.

Osborne has appeared with the Tanglewood, Schleswig-Holstein, Nakamichi, USArts/Berlin, Aspen and Marlboro festivals and on several telecasts by BBC, PBS, Russian, and European television companies. He has sung under such distinguished conductors as Bernstein, Ozawa, Spivakov, Tilson Thomas, John Williams, and Russell Davies.

Golan is a professor at the SUNY at Nassau and has performed throughout the United States and Europe. She has appeared as a piano soloist with the American Symphony Chamber Orchestra and the Greenwich Symphony Orchestra, and as a chamber musician with the Lark and Cavani quartets, members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and members of Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.

She has several solo and collaborative CDs to her credit, including the solo albums "Time Tracks" and "American Tonal: Piano Music of Samuel Barber and Daron Hagen." She has just released her most recent CD: "Schumann Piano Music: The Poet Speaks."

For more information, call the Vassar College Department of Music at (845) 437-7294. Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Cathy Jennings, Office of Campus Activities, (845) 437-5370, as far in advance as possible to request reasonable and appropriate accommodations for the event.

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations or information on accessibility should contact Campus Activities Office at (845) 437-5370. Without sufficient notice, appropriate space and/or assistance may not be available.

Vassar College is a highly selective, coeducational, independent, residential liberal arts college founded in 1861.

This article was posted on Saturday, November 16th, 2002.