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The
Brigham Young University-Idaho Department of Music will present a free
recital featuring pianist Mark Neiwirth and
soprano Kristine Ciesinski Wednesday, Oct. 27, at
7:30 p.m. in the recital hall of
the Eliza R.
Snow Center
for the Performing Arts.
Throughout her operatic career Ciesinski
has portrayed many of the great operatic heroines. She first gained
international recognition when she won both the Geneva International
Competition and the Salzburg International Opera Competition.
She
now resides in Victor and teaches voice and opera on a part-time basis at
BYU-Idaho.
Ciesinski “has the formidable
vocal and acting qualities of a great opera tragedian,”
according to the Muencher Abendzetung. She recently debuted in Warsaw
at the Teatr Wielki
singing Sieglinde in “Die Walkure,” in Tokyo,
Japan, at the New
National Theater singing Judith in “Bluebeard” and in Honolulu
performing the title role in her fifteenth production of “Salome.”
Neiwirth came to national prominence in 1983 and 1985
when he was a winner of the National Federation of Music Clubs Young Artist
Competition. He was the first musician in the country to receive the Young
Artist Grant through the Idaho Federation of Music Clubs.
A
graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, he was the teaching assistant of
Dora Zaslavsky while still an undergraduate. He
went on to pursue a career as a Community Concert pianist and toured the
country in the mid-1980s through Columbia Artists Management.
In
1985 he returned to his native Idaho
and has lived in eastern Idaho
ever since then. For the last four years he has served as the chairman of
the piano department at the Sun Valley Youth Conservatory. He lives in Pocatello
where he maintains a full schedule of private piano students.
For 16 years he was an annual concerto soloist at the Sun Valley
Summer Music Festival.
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