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Yudha, Mosher perform Schubert song cycle

Pianist Cicilia Yudha and baritone Allan Mosher will collaborate on a performance of Franz Schubert’s “Winterreise (The Winter’s Journey”) for a Muse Series concert premiering Sunday.

“Winterreise” is a cycle of 24 songs that tell a story of unrequited love and alienation, published as Opus 89 in 1828. Schubert was editing the final “Winterreise” proofs for his publisher just a few days prior to his death; he had already heard it performed successfully.

Mosher and Yudha perform these mostly melancholy songs as a complete recital with simultaneous subtitled English translations, so that listeners may better understand the German texts. The piano part is particularly evocative of the mood and setting of each piece, describing the words musically.

Mosher, a professor of voice at the Dana School of Music, joined the faculty of Youngstown State University in 1992 and has degrees from San Francisco State University, University of California at Berkeley, Eastman School of Music and the College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati.

He has sung at such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall. He has appeared in the operas “La Traviata,” “I Pagliacci,” “Hansel And Gretel,” “La Sonnambula,” “Madama Butterfly,” “Tosca,” “La Boheme,” “Rigoletto,” “Faust” and “Don Giovanni,” and he has directed more than 25 operas.

A versatile solo pianist, avid chamber musician and dedicated educator, Yudha has given performances, presentations, and master classes in the U.S., Europe and southeast Asia. She is a frequent soloist with the Duke University Symphony Orchestra. Navona Records released her debut CD “Selected Piano Works by Robert Casadesus and Henri Dutilleux” in September 2016.

She holds degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music, New England Conservatory and the University of North Carolina Greensboro. She is a founding member of the Dana Piano Trio and an associate professor of piano at YSU.

The performance is part of the Muse Series, presented by the Dana School of Music and McDonough Museum of Art, and it will debut at 7 p.m. Sunday on Cliffe College and McDonough YouTube channels.

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