Chopin and Viardot: A Dialogue featuring pianist Charlotte Hu and soprano Raquel González

Name: Chopin and Viardot: A Dialogue featuring pianist Charlotte Hu and soprano Raquel González
Start: 2026-05-07T14:00:00-04:00
Location: 1300 Theatre Dr, Kalamazoo, MI 49008, United States

Schedule

Thu, 07 May, 2026 at 02:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

1300 Theatre Dr, Kalamazoo, MI 49008, United States | Kalamazoo, MI

Charlotte Hu, piano
Raquel González, soprano
Pauline Viardot was an accomplished pianist, a world-renowned mezzo-soprano, and a talented composer who studied with Franz Liszt, yet Viardot’s name is largely unknown today. In their dual recital, pianist Charlotte Hu and soprano Raquel González re-introduce Viardot to her rightful place alongside the greatest of Romantic composers, notably her friend and colleague Frédéric Chopin. Their program spans solo piano works by both Chopin and Viardot, Viardot’s piano-and-voice arrangements of Chopin’s mazurkas — which Chopin himself advised on and was pleased with — and some of Viardot’s own original songs for soprano and piano.
Pre-concert talk at 1 pm with Dr. Zaide Pixley in the Lecture Hall at Dalton Center