MUSIC AT TABARET: WINTERREISE WITH LEOPOLDO ERICE AND KATHLEEN FLYNN
As part of the “Music at Tabaret” concert series, mezzo-soprano Kathleen Flynn joins Spanish pianist and uOttawa professor Leopoldo Erice for a afternoon recital of Franz Schubert’s “Winterreise.”
Composed in 1827 near the end of Schubert’s life, Winterreise is a song cycle based on 24 poems by Wilhelm Müller that follow a wanderer confronting heartbreak, memory, and the stillness of winter. The work traces a solitary traveler’s path from fragile hope to deep resignation, utilizing musical intensity to explore themes of solitude and reflection.
Guest artist mezzo-soprano Kathleen Flynn joins pianist and uOttawa professor Leopoldo Erice for an afternoon recital of the complete cycle. The event begins with an informal pre-concert talk, Schubert’s Winter, where the performers will offer insights into the poetry, musical structure, and emotional landscape of this masterpiece.
KATHLEEN FLYNN
A voice imbued with theatrical intensity and shimmering beauty.—Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail “A lush voice and hidden reserves of power.—The New Yorker
Kathleen Flynn has performed across the globe with a repertoire spanning five centuries. She has sung diverse operatic roles under the batons of Seiji Ozawa, Julius Rudel, Robert Spano, Christopher Hogwood, Mario Bernardi, and Jane Glover.
In addition, she has sung with Chicago Opera Theater and New York State Baroque, and at the National Arts Center of Ottawa with the Winnipeg Ballet, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Juilliard Theater, Carnegie Hall, and the Kennedy Center.
Flynn is also an accomplished recitalist, performing in such locations as Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall and Lincoln Center Theater, Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood, and Harris Concert Hall at the Aspen Festival of Music.
Her recordings include A Hand of Bridge and Orchestral Songs by Samuel Barber with the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Ovidiu Marinescu. Recent engagements include performances of För levande och döda in Trondheim, Norway with the chamber ensemble SiTron; at the Northwestern Bach Academy in Chicago, IL; the Alto soloist in Elijah in Shrewsbery, MA; in recital at Distler Hall at Tufts University, Boston MA; and with Fugue Mill, a Boston based eclectic fusion ensemble. Kathleen holds degrees from Stony Brook University (DMA), the Juilliard School (MMUS and Juilliard Opera Center), University of Toronto (Diploma in Operatic Studies), and Dalhousie University (BMUS).
She has been an Artist Fellow at the St. Botolph Club in Boston, MA, is a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique, and is on faculty at Berklee College of Music, Boston Conservatory at Berklee, and Tufts University in Boston, MA.
LEOPOLDO ERICE
Leopoldo Erice is a Spanish pianist born in Madrid, enjoying a successful career in performance and teaching that has taken him across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa. He is a professor at the University of Ottawa’s School of Music and has been a member of the Faculty of Music at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada. Erice has also held the position of Associate Professor of Music at the American University of Sharjah in the UAE and taught at Middle Tennessee State University in the USA.
In 2006, he founded the Festival Internacional de Música Clásica de Ribadeo in Spain. Erice has received several prestigious national and international awards and has recorded for television and radio programs in Spain, Argentina, Syria, and the USA.
An Odradek Records Artist since 2023, his recording Beethoven: The Last Sonatas has recently been launched internationally. He studied at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid in Spain, the Koninklijk Conservatorium in the Netherlands, and as a Fellow of the prestigious “la Caixa” Foundation Fellowship Program at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University in the USA.
Erice holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.