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Music at Noon Series
Liesel Fedkenheuer, soprano (Mount Royal Conservatory of Music); Cheryl Emery-Karapita, piano
September 25, 2018
12:15 pm, University Recital Hall
Free admission, everyone welcome!

Fedkenheuer and Emery-Karapita present a program created out of love and about love. 
The progression of love as they see it: 
Sensual Love
Love Gone Wrong
Spiritual Love
Wedding Day Love
Longing/Renewed Hope Love

Biographies

Liesel Fedkenheuer is a soprano with extensive opera and recital stage experience. She earned her Bachelor of Music Degree as well as her Diploma in Operatic Performance at the University of Toronto studying with Mary Morrison and continued her training in Toronto as a singer in the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble. As a former member of the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Ms. Fedkenheuer was asked to perform and record the role of Donna Elivira in Leporello’s Revenge, a version of Don Giovanni in a made for television movie, with the distinguished Russian Baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky. She was also given the honor of performing the world premiere of Grammarye, an aria from the Canadian opera The Golden Ass, written by Randolph Peters. Ms. Fedkenheuer has studied with many of North America’s preeminent vocal teachers and coaches and is an alumna of various prominent music festivals including the Music Academy of the West, The Ravinia Music Festival, The Bowdoin International Music Festival and The Britten-Pears School in England. While participating at the Music Academy of the West Ms. Fedkenheuer was the winner of the esteemed Marilyn Horne Competition, which led to various recitals in North America, including Carnegie Hall in New York, under the auspices of the Marilyn Horne Foundation. Ms. Fedkenheuer has taught in California and Utah and now resides in Calgary where she maintains a vocal studio at the Mount Royal Conservatory of Music.

Canadian Pianist Cheryl Emery-Karapita specializes in the field of song in recital with Canada’s emerging vocal talent. After completing an M.Mus in Vocal Operatic Coaching at McGill University with Michael McMahon, Cheryl moved to Europe to pursue a Post-Graduate degree in Concert Accompanying with Julius Drake at the Kunst Universität in Graz, Austria. In addition to studies in Graz, Cheryl spent two summers in Baden bei Wien working with Helmut Deutsch, Roger Vignoles, Rudolph Jansen and Wolfram Rieger at the Franz Schubert-Institut.  Cheryl’s B.Mus in solo performance was completed at the University of Calgary with Marilyn Engle.

In addition to current recital and recording projects, Cheryl is busy with Spiritus Chamber Choir and Luminous Voices based in Calgary.