Dr. Schutz will be giving her solo recital debut at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall next week as the winner of the 2019 Pro Musicis International competition. The recital is on Monday, November 8th at 7:30pm and she will be joined by her long-time mentor, Timothy Long (Music Director of Opera at the Eastman School of Music), on piano.
School of Music voice faculty Rachel Schutz makes Carnegie Hall debut!
By Molly Windover, November 4, 2021
The program is centered around the theme of resilience, a quality we have all had to foster over the last eighteen months. It traces some of the difficulties that composers and their muses have faced, including experiences of exclusion imposed on immigrants, women, and other marginalized groups, and the resilience in the face of those challenges that finds expression in their music.
They will be performing Margaret Bonds’s Songs of the Seasons, Alan Smith’s Vignettes: Ellis Island, Chen Yi’s Meditation, and Rachmaninoff’s Op. 38 songs. Additionally, they’ll be giving the world premiere of a new piece by Thomas Osborne, “No Road Back Home.” Tom has set a heartbreaking poem by the incarcerated Uighur poet Abduqadir Jalalidin. More information about the program can be found here.