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“The Spirit Room Presents: Seventeenth-Century Music for Voice and Lute: Linh Kauffman – Soprano and Annett Richter – Lute”

April 20, 2022 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Free – $15

 

Short Title: “Linh Kauffman and Annett Richter”
Title of Event: “The Spirit Room Presents: Seventeenth-Century Music for Voice and
Lute: Linh Kauffman – Soprano and Annett Richter – Lute”
Where and When: Spirit Room Galleries
Event: Wednesday, April 20th, 2022, Lotus

Time: 7:30 – 9:30p.m.

What: 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:


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

Details

Date:
April 20, 2022
Time:
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Cost:
Free – $15
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Website:
https://www.spiritroom.org/

Organizer

Spirit Room
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Venue

Spirit Room
111 Broadway
Fargo, ND 58102
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