Students of music faculty members Susan Bender and Gary Moss will perform in a Voice Area Recital on Monday, February 27 at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.

The event will be held in Michelsen Hall of the Noel Fine Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. It is open to the public free of charge.

The program will include solo performances with piano accompaniment of operatic and art songs in German, French, Italian and English. The recital fulfills part of the applied voice study requirement of students pursuing degrees in vocal performance and music education.

Bender, an assistant professor of music, joined the UWSP faculty in 2003. She has gained numerous honors and critical acclaim including a performance with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as a National Council winner. She has been a soloist with many orchestras, including the Garth Newel Chamber Players in Italy and the Festival Orchestra of Graz, Austria, and has recorded on the Norton Anthology and Albany labels. She has twice earned Helen Hayes Award nominations from the Washington Theatre Awards Association for her work in musical theater. She has a bachelor�s degree in music education from the University of Iowa and a master�s degree in vocal performance from the University of Maryland. She has taught at George Washington University, Grinnell College and Augustana College.

Moss, a native of Salt Lake City, Utah, is an active performer around the United States and Europe. He was a finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in 2003 and has sung roles as a member of the San Francisco Opera Center's Merola and Western Opera Theater programs. Moss also has participated in the Glimmerglass Young American Artist Program, the Santa Fe Opera, Opera North, Toledo Opera, Ohio Light Opera, and Aspen Music Festival. Most recently, he sang the role of Pishtush in "The Mikado" with Skylight Opera in Milwaukee. He has both sung and taught at La Musica Lirica in Italy.

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