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Under the baton of Ken Lam, John J. Cali School of Music faculty and students will be joined by MaryAnn McCormick for a performance of Gustav Mahler’s master work Das Lied von der Erde. This performance of the Schoenberg/Riehn chamber version will take place at 8pm on February 25, 2015, in the Jed Leschowitz Recital Hall. 

Internationally acclaimed mezzo-soprano MaryAnn McCormick has been hailed in the press as “charismatic”, “spell-binding” and “elegant.” Her international credits include Isabella in L’italiana in Algeri at La Scala, Azucena in Il trovatore at the Teatro Regio Torino, and First Maid in Elektra with Christoph von Dohnanyi at the Opéra National de Paris. She has also performed Maddalena in Rigoletto under Daniele Gatti at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna and with Seattle Opera and Gluck’s Alceste under Bruno Bartoletti at the Teatro Regio di Parma. Her recent accomplishments include performances as Carmen with Theater St. Gallen, Switzerland of which the critics wrote “she acts and sings a wonderful Carmen,” a role she has also performed with Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Teatro Regio di Torino and the Staatsoper Stuttgart among others. MaryAnn returned to the Metropolitan Opera in their 2011 season to sing the role of Grimgerde in their new production of Die Walküre which was broadcast in HD in theaters internationally. This production part of the complete Ring Cycle was recently released on DVD and also won the 2012 Grammy award for Best Classical Album. With the Metropolitan Opera of New York, MaryAnn has performed roles in many operas over more than fifteen seasons. MaryAnn has also performed with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Santa Fe Opera, Opera Ireland, and the Boston Lyric Opera. MaryAnn has recorded with the Emerson String Quartet in the Grammy-nominated recording of Anton Webern’s Three Pieces for String Quartet, Op. 3, No. 3, on Deutsche-Grammophon, as well as the New York Philharmonic and Orchestre National de France. She is featured singing in the Miramax film The Talented Mr. Ripley.

Tenor soloist, Robert Cart, is the Director of the John J. Cali School of Music.  He has performed more than 15 leading roles throughout the United States and Europe in Vienna, Munich, London, New York and Washington, DC, under such conductors as Bernstein, Leppard and Zinman.