The Department of Music at Delta State University will present guest artist Dr. Kwan-Yee Amy Yeung, soprano, in recital at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 21, in the Recital Hall of the Bologna Performing Arts Center (BPAC) on the campus.
Dr. Jung-Won Shin, assistant professor of music at Delta State, will be the pianist for the evening event. The recital is given in celebration of their new CD, “Chansons de la Nuit,” released in March 2010 through Centaur Records. The artists will host a public CD signing of “Chansons de la nuit” in the Tims Gallery of the BPAC immediately following the recital.
Yeung is currently associate professor of music at the University of Tennessee at Martin, where she teaches applied voice, diction, form and analysis, and directs lyric opera theatre. A native of Hong Kong, Yeung has performed extensively in recitals and concerts throughout the Asian countries, including Taiwan, Malaysia, Korea, and Hong Kong, as well as in the United States, Germany, Bulgaria, and Croatia. Her performances have been broadcasted in the “Young Music Makers,” and “1815 Caprice” under the auspices of Radio Television Hong Kong. She was recently awarded a 2008 Individual Artist Fellowship by the Tennessee Arts Commission.
Yeung is active on the oratorio concert stage, where she has performed as a soloist in Mozart’s Coronation Mass in C, Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Te Deum, Mendelssohn’s Christus, and Rutter’s Magnificat. She has also performed in operas such as Humperdink’s Hansel and Gretel, Cimarosa’s Il Matrimonio Sergeto, Puccini’s Turandot, Lehár’s The Merry Widow, and Nelson’s A Room with a View. She was awarded a full scholarship to study and perform in the Ost-West-Internationalen Musik-Akademie in Altenburg, Germany in 1998.
She holds degrees in vocal performance and music theory from Michigan State University, Texas State University, and Hong Kong Baptist University. Her mentors include Meredith Zara, Richard Fracker, Leonore Sergi, John Belisle, and Siu-Kwan Chan.
The recital is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the Delta State Music Department at 662-846-4615.
