UMSL soprano Stella Markou will perform at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 10 in the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center at UMSL. The concert is free and open to the public.
Soprano Stella Markou will perform a dynamic program of timeless works by classical composers such as Bach, Purcell and Donizetti at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 10 in the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.
Markou is an associate professor of music and director of vocal studies at UMSL. The concert is free and open to the public.
Joining Markou for the faculty recital performance will be Alla Voskoboynikova, teaching associate professor of music and director of keyboard studies at UMSL, Vincent Varvel, instructor in guitar at Washington University in St. Louis, John Korak, professor of trumpet at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Tod Bowermaster, who plays the horn with the St. Louis Symphony, and Shermayne Brown, a soprano singer from New York.
The evening promises vocal pyrotechnics on the title work of J.S. Bach’s “Jauchzet Gott in allen landen” and the beautifully haunting sounds of Spanish composer Manuel de Falla.
Markou has been a featured soloist for the International Computer Music Conference, Heidelberg New Music Festival, SEAMUS Festival, Florida Electro-Acoustic Music Festival, Electronic Music Midwest and with the Dance New Amsterdam Company, among others.
She placed first in both the Doctorate Division of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and the Arizona Opera Guild competitions. She is the 2005 recipient of the Arizona Community Foundation/Piper Enrichment Grant. Her work can be found on the SEAMUS record label.
