Kevin Murphy Replaces Malcolm Martineau In Recital With Elina Garanca

Songs by Wagner, Schumann, Ravel, and Falla Carnegie Hall today announced that pianist Kevin Murphy will replace Malcolm Martineau performing in recital with mezzo-soprano El?na Garan?a in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage next Tuesday, October 23 at 8:00 p.m. Mr. Martineau has withdrawn from this performance due to a death in his family. The evening's program, which features songs by Wagner, Schumann, Ravel, and Falla, remains the same. Full program information is listed below.

Elina Garan?a and Kevin Murphy have previously performed together in recital at Carnegie Hall in April 2013 and March 2017.

Pianist Kevin Murphy has collaborated in concert and recital with many of today's leading artists, including his wife, Heidi Grant Murphy, as well as Michelle DeYoung, Thomas Hampson, Lawrence Brownlee, El?na Garan?a, Gary Lakes, Nathan Gunn, Olaf Bär, Bryn Terfel, Marcelo Alvarez, Plácido Domingo, Frederica von Stade, Renée Fleming, Paul Groves, and Cecilia Bartoli. Mr. Murphy is also respected for his work in master classes and as a private coach, and he has performed in chamber music collaborations with the Zukerman Chamber Players as well as members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. Other chamber music and concert credits include appearances at Salzburg's Mozarteum, London's Wigmore Hall, the Edinburgh Festival, Tokyo's Suntory Hall, and many other venues in the U.S. and abroad.

Mr. Murphy has served as Director of Coaching and Music Administration for Indiana University Opera Theater and Professor of Practice at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music since 2011. That same year, he was appointed Director of the Program for Singers at Ravinia's Steans Music Institute, and 2013-2014 marked his first season as Artistic Consultant for the Tucson Desert Song Festival. Previously, Murphy was Director of Music Administration and Casting Advisor at New York City Opera (2008-2012) and Director of Musical Studies at the Opéra National de Paris (2006-2008). He was the first pianist and vocal coach invited into the prestigious Lindemann Young Artist Program at the Metropolitan Opera, and from 1993 to 2006, he was assistant conductor at the Met.

El?na Garan?a was born into a musical family in Riga, Latvia, where her father was a choral conductor and her mother a singer, who taught her at the Latvian Academy of Music. The mezzo-soprano went on to continue her studies in Vienna and the United States. A finalist in the 2001 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, in 2006 she was honored with the European Culture Prize and in 2010 she won both Musical America's "Vocalist of the Year" and MIDEM Classical's "Singer of the Year" awards. She is married to conductor Karel Mark Chichon, with whom she has two daughters, and is the subject of the award-winning documentary Primadonna on Rollerskates (2002). Her own memoir, Wirklich wichtig sind die Schuhe ("The Shoes Are Really Important"), was published by Austria's EcoWin Verlag in 2013.

The celebrated singer has enjoyed a long association with Carnegie Hall. She made her first appearance at the venue in 2010, taking part in a concert performance of Massenet's La Navarraise at the Opera Orchestra of New York's 40th-anniversary season-opening gala. Three years later, she made her New York recital debut in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage, where she gave a second recital last year. In addition to her October 2018 recital, Ms. Garan?a returns to the Hall later this season, on June 14, to perform Mahler's Rückert Lieder with The MET Orchestra under the baton of Music Director and Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

Program Information
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 at 8:00 p.m.
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
El?na Garan?a, Mezzo-Soprano
Kevin Murphy, Piano

Robert Schumann Selections from Myrthen, Op. 25
·· "Widmung"
·· "Der Nussbaum"
·· "Jemand"
·· "Lieder der Braut aus dem Liebesfrühling I"
·· "Lieder der Braut aus dem Liebesfrühling II"
Richard Wagner Wesendonck Lieder
·· Der Engel
·· Stehe still!
·· Im Treibhaus
·· Schmerzen
·· Träume
Maurice Ravel Shéhérazade
Manuel De Falla Siete canciones populares españolas

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