Mezzo soprano Kindra Scharich has been praised by the San Francisco Chronicle for her “exuberant vitality,” “fearless technical precision,” “deep-rooted pathos” and “irrepressible musical splendor.” She has performed more than 150 songs in 10 languages and given solo recitals with pianists Ricardo Ballestero, George Fee, Jeffrey LaDeur, John Parr and Joyce Yang. As a dedicated recitalist, she has sung at the American Composer’s Forum, La Jolla Athenaeum, The Wagner Society, Lieder Alive, and the acclaimed Sala Cecilia Meireles in Rio de Janeiro. Enthusiastic about working with modern composers, Ms. Scharich is featured in David Conte’s Everyone Sang: Vocal Music of David Conte, and has premiered works by Elinor Armer, Kurt Erickson, Janis Mattox, and Anno Schreier.
Recent recordings include In Meinem Himmel: The Complete Mahler Song Cycles with the Alexander String Quartet and Nepomuceno and His Muses with Ricardo Ballestero. In the world of opera, Ms. Scharich has sung more than 30 roles in the lyric mezzo repertoire and will perform in the upcoming premier of Laura Kaminsky’s Today it Rains with Opera Parallele.
For her Music in the Gallery recital, Ms. Scharich will perform Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte, and Schumann’s Frauenliebe und Leben, Fantasie, Opus 17.
Appearing with Ms. Scharich will be pianist Jeffrey LaDeur, a St. Charles native and alumnus of St. Charles East High School. Praised for his “delicate keyboard touch and rich expressivity" (San Francisco Chronicle) and playing that is “deeply moving, probing, entirely felt as in the moment” (Eduard Laurel) Jeffrey LaDeur performs worldwide, from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to the San Francisco Jazz Center, from the Shanghai Conservatory to the Orlando Festival in the Netherlands. LaDeur is founder and artistic director of New Piano Collective and the San Francisco International Piano Festival. His recent debut solo performance at Carnegie Hall in New York coincided with the release of his solo CD, Rameau & Debussy: The Unbroken Line.
In addition to accompanying Ms. Scharich, LaDeur will perform as a piano soloist in this concert.
CLICK HERE to enjoy a brief excerpt of Ms. Scharich's performance of a Mahler song accompanied by the Alexander String Quartet.