Students of Robert Peavler and Susan Bender will perform in a recital on Tuesday, March 8 at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.

The event in Michelsen Hall of the Noel Fine Arts Center will begin at 7:30 p.m. It will be 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.

Peavler, assistant professor of voice and opera, teaches applied voice, diction, opera workshop and vocal pedagogy. He also conducts the UWSP Madrigal Singers. In his career as a musician, he has performed across the United States and been featured on Wisconsin Public Radio. He also is well known as a founding member of the CentraLine Trio. Peavler has served as the director of the middle and high school choirs at the UWSP Summer Music Camps and as a vocal instructor at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp. Prior to coming to Stevens Point in 2000, Peavler taught voice at Columbus State University, where his students consistently took top honors at state and regional National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) auditions. 

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 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.

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