Contact: Madison Welzbacher

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State’s Department of Music is hosting two concerts by renowned performers as part of its annual Vocal Odyssey in Creativity and Education event this Friday [March 4], 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. in Old Main Academic Center. Both are free and open to the public.

VOiCE offers a variety of artists from around the country the opportunity to perform and provide education in vocal music. Sessions and classes also are available to those interested in vocal education on Friday and Saturday [March 4-5] in the same location.

New York City-based QueensSound Ensemble will perform “Music by Women Composers” at 3 p.m. in Old Main’s Turner Wingo Auditorium. Founded in 2019, the ensemble consists of soprano Linda Teixeira, violinist Laura Giannini and pianist Hyojung Helena Kim. The trio will perform vocal and instrumental chamber music written by female composers of the past.

Tenor Jonathan Yarrington will perform “Obscure Vocal Works” at 7:30 p.m. also in the Turner Wingo Auditorium. An associate professor of voice at the University of Southern Mississippi, he has appeared with The Dallas Opera and those at University of North Texas, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Brigham Young University. Yarrington will perform with MSU faculty members Jeanette Fontaine, mezzo-soprano, and Anne Katherine Ragsdale on piano, as well as MSU students. The recital will feature uncommonly presented works from a variety of composers, along with “The Diary of One Who Disappeared,” a song cycle in Czech by composer Leoš Janáček. 

VOiCE is made possible by the James W. Criss Trust.

For more information or questions, contact Roza Tulyaganova, assistant professor of music, at rozat@colled.msstate.edu.

For more on MSU’s College of Education and its Department of Music, visit www.educ.msstate.edu and www.music.msstate.edu.

MSU is Mississippi’s leading university, available online at www.msstate.edu.