Women’s Life and Love at Cathedral of St John – Albuquerque, NM

Enjoy an afternoon recital featuring three captivating and emotionally powerful art song cycles by Robert Schumann, Francis Poulenc, and Manuel de Falla.

Jacqueline Zander-Wall
A proponent of new music, Jacqueline Zander-Wall has premiered works with the Composers Forum in Moscow, L’art pour l’art in Frankfurt, the Goethe Institute in Boston, Chaosma, Hugo Wolf Akademie in Stuttgart, Scala in Hamburg and the Hamburg Opera Stabile.

She has performed with numerous music festivals including the Aspen Music Festival, Skaneateles Music Festival, Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival, Music in the Mountains, Britten-Pears Festival, Hugo Wolf Akademie, Brooklyn Academy of Music Monteverdi Festival, and Taos Chamber Music. She has been a soloist with the Valdosta Symphony, the Asian American Symphony, the New Mexico Philharmonic, the New Haven Symphony, the Duluth Superior Symphony, Orchestra X in Houston and many orchestras and chamber ensembles throughout the United States and Germany.

After a Masters Degree from the University of California in Santa Barbara, she received a Rotary Scholarship to study in Hamburg. Further fellowships include the Boston University Opera Institute, the Music Academy of the West, the Ost West Musik Academie, the Britten Pears School, the Aspen Music Festival, and the Utah Festival Opera.

Opera credits include many leading roles with the Boston Lyric Opera, the Chicago Opera Theater, Arizona Opera, Hamburg Opera, Duluth Superior Symphony, New Haven Symphony, Scala in Hamburg, Opera Southwest, and Hamburg Konzertante Oper.

She has served on the Voice Faculty at Phillips Exeter Academy, Phillips Academy, the College of Santa Fe, and the University of New Mexico. Now in its seventeenth year, she founded the Vocal Artistry Art Song Festival of New Mexico, to inspire and encourage students of singing and piano in the state of New Mexico. She is currently the President of the Albuquerque Music Teachers Association.

Louise Bass
The performance and study of 20th century French music has been a passion for Louise Bass throughout her career. She studied organ performance at Indiana University and at Oklahoma City University with the legendary Wilma Jensen, who continues to mentor and inspire. Bass has worked extensively in Paris, studying with renowned organist Susan Landale. She is Artist-in-Residence in Organ at Piedmont University and has toured with the Piedmont Singers throughout the United States, England and Wales.

An experienced performer of sacred music, Bass has deep roots as a church musician. She has served as associate organist and choir director at the Cathedral of St. John in Albuquerque and as adjunct instructor at the University of New Mexico. She has performed at the Cathedral of St. Philip and at Spivey Hall in Atlanta, at St. James Cathedral in Chicago, and for the American Guild of Organists. She was featured guest artist at the Tuscia Music Festival in Viterbo, Italy, and has performed under the batons of Sir David Willcocks of King’s College, Cambridge; Wallace Hinson of Piedmont University; and Gerry Hancock of Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue Church.