This Light of Mine - A concert of Woman Composers

Name: This Light of Mine - A concert of Woman Composers
Start: 2025-03-14T19:30:00-07:00
Location: St. Clement's Episcopal Church

Schedule

Fri, 14 Mar, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

St. Clement's Episcopal Church | Seattle, WA

Find comfort and inspiration in works by women composers that journey through all of the seasons of life. This recital features songs for voice and piano in five languages with poetry by Joan Fuster, Heinrich Heine, Langston Hughes, Omar Khayyam, Pietro Metastasio, Friedrich Rückert, and the composers themselves, encompassing love and loss, lullabies, and learning.
$25 suggested donation.
Donations benefit the St. Clements Episcopal Music Program.

Stacey Mastrian, soprano
Wade Dingman, piano

Composers include Carrie Jacobs Bond, Margaret Bonds, Chiquinha Gonzaga, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Cecilia Macca, Undine Smith Moore, Louise Reichardt, Elsa Respighi, Gladys Rich, Eugenia Scarpa (Geni Sadero), Matilde Salvador, Clara Schumann, Lily Strickland.

About Stacey Mastrian, soprano
Stacey Mastrian, a "manifestly courageous" (Boston Globe) soprano who is "versatile and passionate" (Der Tagesspiegel), has sung at the Konzerthaus (Berlin), Kennedy Center (DC), Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur (Montréal), Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center (NYC), St. Peter's (Vatican City), Teatro La Fenice (Venice), and in Mexico and more than half of the U.S., including on KING FM and other broadcasts. She sings in over two dozen languages, spanning 900 years from Hildegard von Bingen to Mozart, Brahms, Verdi, and beyond. At Benaroya Hall in Spring 2024, she sang "Democracy" in the West Coast premiere of the voting-rights cantata Say Your Name by Reena Esmail with Kirkland Choral Society and Philharmonia Northwest. She has also sung Orff's Carmina Burana, Sibelius' Luonnotar, as well as the U.S. premiere of Grace Williams' Fairest of Stars with the Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra, and Finzi's Dies Natalis with the Federal Way Symphony.
Stacey has been a Fulbright grantee and awarded prizes from The American Prize, Chamber Orchestra of NY, Seattle Opera Guild, and Vocal Arts DC, and her Sonnets and Fables CD has been hailed for "penetrating insight, unfailing musicality, and vocal beauty" (Journal of Singing). Dr. Mastrian has taught at American University, Gettysburg College, Peabody Conservatory, and the University of Maryland; she currently teaches voice, diction, and anatomy online, in Redmond and north Seattle, for Keystone Opera, Midsummer Musical Retreat, and as a guest clinician.
https://www.staceymastrian.com/

About Wade Dingman, piano
Wade Dingman is a multi-faceted performer, coach, and accompanist. He started building his broad record of Organ performance experience following his postgraduate organ studies at Pacific Lutheran University where he was one of four organists chosen nationally to perform in the international symposium The Organ in the New Millenium. He holds a Master of Music in Organ Performance from the University of Notre Dame and Germany's highest degree in Organ Performance from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Rostock, Germany. Equally at home as organist, pianist, or vocal accompanist, Wade has performed extensively in the Pacific Northwest and throughout Europe, in venues such as St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh, Scotland; Marienkirche, Stralsund, Germany; Yorkminster, England; Schloss Leopoldskron, Salzburg, Austria; the American Embassy in Berlin, Germany; Italy, Hungary, St. James Cathedral, Seattle, Bellingham Festival of Music, Pacific Northwest Opera, North Carolina and New York. A native of Washington state, Wade is a graduate from Western Washington University who holds degrees in both Piano and French. He furthered his studies in piano, vocal accompanying and opera coaching in Salzburg and Graz, Austria; and has worked in Austria, Germany and Italy as a vocal coach, language coach and accompanist. He currently serves as Principal Organist at University Presbyterian Church in Seattle.
https://www.upc.org/staff/wade-dingman/