POSTPONED: Soprano Deborah Lifton to Preview New York Recital

11/01/07

*** UPDATE: This concert has been postponed until Sunday, December 2.***

Soprano Deborah Lifton will preview her Merkin Hall debut concert in Ithaca on Wednesday, November 7, at 7:00 p.m. in the Hockett Family Recital Hall in the James J. Whalen Center for Music. Pianist Charis Dimaras will collaborate.

The Merkin Hall concert in New York City is a result of winning the 2007 "Joy in Singing" competition, and will take place in January 2008. The program includes music of Dorumsgaard, Strauss, Rachmaninoff, Larsen, and Ginastera.

Deborah Lifton is equally at home in opera, song recital, and musical theatre. Recent operatic appearances include the roles of both Susanna and Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro, Valencienne in The Merry Widow, Beth in Little Women, Elisa in Il Re Pastore, as well as the title roles in Bastien und Bastienne, L'enfant et les sortileges, and Armida.

In April, Lifton was featured at a "composer's concert" at the Yamaha Showroom in New York. She has also been a fellow of the Aspen Music Festival and a resident artist with the Ash-Lawn Highland and Natchez Festivals.

This spring, Lifton can also be heard on sound tracks for documentaries and nationally televised commercials.

She holds a master's degree from the Manhattan School of Music and a bachelor's degree in voice from the University of Michigan.

For more information about this or any of the approximately 300 concerts presented each year at the Ithaca College School of Music, visit www.ithaca.edu/concerts or call (607) 274-3717.

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