Date: Wednesday, April 20, 2022

                                                                                             Time: 7:30 - 9:30PM

                                                                                             Cost: $15 general admission, $10 seniors, Students free with ID

                                                                                            Please join us at the Spirit Room in the Lotus Studio for a concert of seventeenth-century                                                                                              music for voice and lute: Linh Kauffman, Soprano and Annett Richter, Lute.

                                                                                            Praised​ ​as​ ​"vocally​ ​and​ ​dramatically​ ​powerful" ​by​ ​the​ ​​Washington​ ​Post​ ​​and​ ​“radiant”​ ​by​ ​                                                                                                  the Saint​ ​Paul​ ​Pioneer​ ​Press,​ ​​Vietnamese-American soprano​ ​Linh​ ​Kauffman​ ​enjoys​ ​an​ ​                                                                                                    active​ ​career​ ​in​ ​opera,​ ​oratorio,​ ​new music​ ​and​ ​recital.​ ​Her​ ​recent​ ​performances​ ​include​ ​                                                                                                Orff’s​ ​​Carmina​ ​Burana​ ​​for​ ​the​ ​Prague Choral​ ​Festival,​ Mahler​'s ​​Symphony​ ​No.​ ​2​ and ​​                                                                                                       Carmina​ ​Burana​​ ​​​with​ ​the​ ​Minnesota​ ​Orchestra. A​ ​prolific​ ​concert​ ​artist,​ ​Ms.​ ​Kauffman​ ​has​ ​                                                                                               also​ ​appeared​ ​with​ ​the​ ​Pittsburgh​ ​Symphony,​ ​Akron Symphony,​ ​Richmond​ ​Symphony,​ ​                                                                                                   Quad​ ​City​ ​Symphony,​ ​and​ ​Saint​ ​Paul​ ​Chamber​ ​ Orchestra. A​ ​native​ ​of​ ​Connecticut,​ ​Ms.​ ​Kauffman​ ​earned​ ​music​ ​degrees​ ​from​ ​Carnegie​ ​Mellon​ ​University, University​ ​of​ ​Maryland,​ ​and​ ​University​ ​of​ ​Minnesota​ ​where​ ​she​ ​completed​ ​her​ ​Doctorate​ ​and Certificate​ ​in​ ​Vocal​ ​Pedagogy.​ She​ ​also​ ​studied​ ​at​ ​the​ ​Weill​ ​Institute​ ​at​ ​Carnegie​ ​Hall​ ​and​ ​the Salzburg​ ​Mozarteum.​ ​​ She​ ​teaches​ ​at​ ​Macalester​ ​College​,​ ​is​ ​Associate Artistic Director of Antiqva Panamá and serves on the Artistic Committee of the Minnesota Bach Ensemble.

Annett Richter, a native of Halle, Germany, is a musician, musicologist, and visual artist. She teaches courses in music history, music iconography, and aural skills at Concordia College, and she has served on the faculty at Minnesota State University Moorhead, the University of Missouri, Columbia, and North Dakota State University. As lutenist, Dr. Richter has appeared in concert with sopranos Linh Kauffman,

Candace Magner, Dawn Sonntag, and Kim Sueoka, lutenists Richard Griffith, Philip Rukavina, and Tom Walker, as well as with the early music ensemble Consortium Carissimi in Minneapolis. As a guitarist, she has performed for the Minnesota Guitar Society, and most recently, she appeared with the Concordia Band for their High School Honors Band Gala Concert. Richter is Vice President of the Minnesota Guitar

Society and has conducted interviews with internationally renowned artists which have appeared in Classical Guitar Magazine online. When she is not teaching, researching, writing, painting, or traveling to rehearsals, Dr. Richter freelances as an editor of scholarly writing, tutors German, and enjoys taking students to local art museums. She has also served as Artistic Evaluator for the Minnesota State Arts Board. In the world of the visual arts, she has most recently worked with alcohol inks, inspired by the

work of composer, musician, and multi-media artist Jo Verdis. Richter’s painting Follow the Light was shown at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in their Foot in the Door 5: A Virtual Exhibition (2020/2021), an exhibition of works by Minnesota artists. Last year, Follow the Light was selected by The Arts Partnership in Fargo for their Virtual Catalog to Fill Blank Spaces project (https://theartspartnership.net/virtual-catalog-of-art/) and will be installed as public art on the south- eastern corner of Concordia’s campus in the Spring of 2022. Richter’s first art exhibition of a series of her alcohol ink paintings, all created in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, was recently on view at the Twenty Below coffee house in Fargo. Dr. Richter holds master’s degrees in musicology and in guitar performance from the University of Minnesota and the equivalents of a B.A. and M.A. in British and American Studies from Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. She received her Ph.D. in musicology from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

For a sample of this musical performance, visit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP61BcOXSLk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqadtBVfmiI

Doors open at 7:00pm. Cash accepted at the door.

Seventeenth-Century Music for Voice and Lute: Linh Kauffman, Soprano and Annett Richter, Lute is made possible through funding in part by North Dakota Council on the Arts, the Arts Partnership, and grant funding from the McKnight Foundation through the Lake Region Arts Council, Fergus Falls.

Who: Open to the public, all ages welcome

Cost:  $15 general admission, $10 for seniors, Students free with ID                                  

Contact Us:   fargospiritroom@gmail.com