Women’s Life and Love

Enjoy an afternoon recital featuring three captivating and emotionally powerful art song cycles by Robert Schumann, Francis Poulenc, and Manuel de Falla.

Jacqueline Zander-Wall has over fifty recital credits, which include the Stuttgart Hugo Wolf Gesellschaft, the Hamburg Mahler Verein, the Villa Lobos Ensemble, the Goethe Institute in Moscow and Boston, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. She has performed Chamber Music with the New York Skaneateles Music Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, the Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival in Vermont, and throughout Germany. A proponent of new music, Ms. Zander-Wall has sung with L’art pour l’art in Frankfurt, Chaosmas in Moscow, and Boston and Hamburg’s improvisatory Scala Theater.

As an oratorio soloist, she has performed with Robert Shaw, Canticum Novum, the Flensburger Bach-Chor, and Cathedrals in Hamburg, Wismar, and Lubeck. She has sung the role of Proserpina with Monteverdi Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Chicago Opera Theater. Other opera credits include the Boston Lyric Opera, Arizona Opera, Utah Festival Opera, Opera Southwest, and the Hamburg Opera.

After receiving a Master’s of Arts from the University of California at Santa Barbara, she received a diploma from Boston University’s Opera Institute. Her primary teacher is Elizabeth Mannion. She has also worked extensively with Phyllis Curtin, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Suzanne Danco, and Jane Snow.

Ms. Zander-Wall is also the founder and director of the Vocal Artistry Art Song Competition, to aid students of singing in the state of New Mexico.

The performance and study of 20th century French music has been a passion for Louise Bass throughout her career. She studied organ performance at Indiana University and at Oklahoma City University with the legendary Wilma Jensen, who continues to mentor and inspire.

Bass has worked extensively in Paris, studying with renowned organist Susan Landale. She is Artist-in-Residence in Organ at Georgia's Piedmont University and has toured with the Piedmont Singers throughout the United States, England and Wales.

An experienced performer of sacred music, Bass has deep roots as a church musician. She has served as associate organist and choir director at the Cathedral of St. John in Albuquerque and as adjunct instructor at the University of New Mexico.

She has performed at the Cathedral of St. Philip and at Spivey Hall in Atlanta, at St. James Cathedral in Chicago, and for the American Guild of Organists. She was featured guest artist at the Tuscia Music Festival in Viterbo, Italy, and has performed under the batons of Sir David Willcocks of King's College, Cambridge; Wallace Hinson of Piedmont University; and Gerry Hancock of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Church.

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