UW Symphony with Cyndia Sieden: Schumann, Sibelius, Strauss

Richard Strauss — Tod und Verklärung (“Death and Transfiguration”), Op. 24
Robert Schumann — Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 120
Jean Sibelius — Luonnotar, Op. 70

Cyndia Sieden, soprano
David Alexander Rahbee, conductor

Schumann – Symphony in D minor (original 1841 version of Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 120)
Sibelius – Luonnotar, Op. 70
R. Strauss – Death and Transfiguration, Op. 24

David Alexander Rahbee conducts the University Symphony in a program of works by Robert Schumann, Sibelius, and Richard Strauss. Soprano (and UW faculty artist) Cyndia Sieden is featured soloist on Jean Sibelius's tone poem for soprano and orchestra Luonnotar, Op. 70.

About the artists

American soprano Cyndia Sieden moves easily among the Baroque, classical, romantic and contemporary repertoires to worldwide acclaim. In addition, her performances and recordings of his works affirm her status as one of the sovereign Mozart interpreters of the present day.

Cyndia Sieden was born in California, USA, and received her first vocal instruction there. The significant milestone in her studies was work with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf in master classes in Carmel Valley, CA in 1982. Schwarzkopf then invited Sieden to become her private student, and also to work with her in master classes at the 1983 Salzburg Mozarteum. Sieden sang in the culminating concert/competition and won first place, the springboard for her first professional engagements.

In 1984, Cyndia Sieden made her European debut in Il Barbiere at the Bavarian State Opera; her American debut also took place in 1984, in La Fille du Regiment, in Tampa, Florida.

David Alexander Rahbee is currently artist in residence at the University of Washington School of Music in Seattle, where he is conductor of the University Orchestra and teaches conducting. He was a recipient of the American-Austrian Foundation's 2003 Herbert von Karajan Fellowship for Young Conductors, the 2005 International Richard-Wagner-Verband Stipend, and received a fellowship from the Acanthes Centre in Paris in 2007.

About Cyndia Sieden

http://www.cyndiasieden.com/

About UW Symphony Orchestra

http://music.washington.edu/ensembles/uw-symphony-orchestra