Stella Markou, director of vocal studies at UMSL, will perform "An Evening of Song" on Oct. 6.

For “An Evening of Song,” soprano Stella Markou will explore works by seven different composers with love, or some variation thereof, as the unifying theme. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 6 in the Anheuser-Busch Performance Hall at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. It is free and open to the public.

Markou, the director of vocal studies at UMSL, has sung throughout the world and locally with the Ambassadors of Harmony and Arianna String Quartet. She has performed roles from “Die Zauberflote,” “The Turn of the Screw” and “The Mikado.”

She will be accompanied for “An Evening of Song” by Alla Voskoboynikova, coordinator of piano studies at UMSL, Vincent Varvel and Elizabeth Schleicher. They will perform compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Claudio Monteverdi, Francis Poulenc, Enrique Granados, Richard Strauss, Martin Kennedy and Leonard Bernstein.

The Touhill is on UMSL’s North Campus, One University Blvd. in St. Louis County (63121).

More information:
http://www.umsl.edu/~umslmusic/bios/markou.html
http://www.stellamarkou.com/