Toronto to present recital with alum, fellow faculty

Mezzo-soprano Emily Wood Toronto will present a faculty recital on Monday, Oct. 7, at 7:30 p.m. in Founders Recital Hall in the Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center on the South Dakota State University campus. 

Toronto is a professor of voice, voice pedagogy and opera workshop at SDSU. Carson Covey, an alumnus of SDSU, will accompany the program. The recital will also feature Immanuel Abraham, professor of violin and string pedagogy at SDSU, on violin. 

The recital is titled “Chiaroscuro,” an Italian word that means light and shadow. The program will feature works by British composer Roger Quilter and Italian composer Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari. The program will also include four art songs by 20th-century American composer, pianist and teacher Florence Price, “The Zigeunerlieder” by Johannes Brahms as well as the South Dakota premiere of art songs by Brazilian composer and conductor Alberto Nepomuceno. 

The recital is free, and the public is invited to attend. For more information, please contact the SDSU School of Performing Arts at 605-688-5187.