Linfield College music Professors Anton Belov and Albert Kim will present a preview concert at Linfield before heading to perform at the Smithsonian Institute. They will perform “The East-Western Divan, Art Songs Inspired by Persia” Tuesday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. in Delkin Recital Hall in the Vivian A. Bull Music Center at Linfield.
The concert is a special preview performance before the duo heads to Washington, D.C., to perform at the Freer Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute. Currently, the Freer Gallery is hosting an exhibit featuring Persian calligraphy. In honor of this, Belov and Kim’s performance will feature German and Russian translations of Persian poets including Hafez and Mirza Shafi in settings by Schumann, Brahms, Wolf, Rachmaninoff, Glazunov and Rubinstein.
Belov, a Juilliard-trained baritone and assistant professor of music at Linfield, has been a featured soloist at Carnegie Hall, Portland Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Detroit Symphony and elsewhere, and has been praised by the New York Times for stealing the show with his “rich, mellifluous voice” and “soulful pathos.” Belov has appeared with opera companies throughout the United States and has earned critical acclaim for his portrayals of characters as diverse as Count di Luna, Don Giovanni, Escamillo, Count Almaviva, Doctor Malatesta and Eugene Onegin. He holds a bachelor’s of music degree from the New England Conservatory, an Artist Diploma and master of music degree from the Juilliard School, and a doctorate of music degree from Boston University.
A dedicated chamber musician, Kim has performed in the chamber music master classes of Robert Levin and Menahem Pressler and coached with Isaac Stern, Yo-Yo Ma and others. Most recently, he completed and premiered an original instrumental transcription of Strauss’ “Salome” for the Tabletop Opera in Rochester, N.Y. He is the winner of the 2008 concerto competition and performed Prokofiev’s Concerto No. 2 with the Eastman Philharmonia. During the 1998-99 concert season, Kim was selected by Carnegie Hall to participate in the European Concert Hall Organization’s “Rising Stars” program. He is active as a composer and arranger, with an original song cycle and a piano-contrabass arrangement of Piazzolla tangos and a publication of his solo piano transcription of Ravel’s “La Valse.” He holds a bachelor’s of arts degree in music from Harvard University, and both a master’s in music and a doctorate from the Eastman School of Music.
The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, call 503-883-2275 or visit linfield.edu/arts.
