VOICE 2018 Edition – Art Song division
Third Prize and Radio-Canada People’s Choice Award
Mezzo-soprano
Biography 2018: Mezzo-soprano Clara Osowski is an active soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States and Europe. In her most recent competition success in 2017, she was named the winner of the Houston Saengerbund Competition and placed third in the Madison Handel Aria Competition. In March, Clara became the first ever American prize winner when she placed second at the Thomas Quasthoffs International Song Competition in Heidelberg, Germany, and in September she was awarded the Richard Tauber Prize for the best interpretation of Schubert lieder at the Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation Song Competition in London. Recent recital appearances include the Dame Myra Hess Series in Chicago and the Schubert Club International Artist series in St. Paul.
Clara received her Bachelor of Musical Arts degree with emphasis in Voice from North Dakota State University in 2008, and Master of Arts Degree in Voice from the University of Iowa in 2010. She currently studies voice with Emma Small of Minneapolis.
Clara Osowski is generously sponsored by par Nathalie Pratte.
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Voice 2018 Program
ART SONG
FIRST ROUND
Franz Schubert
Memnon D. 541
Francis Poulenc
Homme au sourire tendre (La Fraîcheur et le Feu FP 147)
Benjamin Britten
Sephestia’s Lullaby (A Charm of Lullabies op. 41)
Dominick Argento
Parents (From the Diary of Virginia Woolf)
Franz Schubert
Bei dir allein! D. 866 n° 2
SEMIFINAL
Franz Schubert
Heliopolis 1 D. 753
Auflösung D. 807
Die Sterne D. 176
Jean Sibelius
Den första kyssen op. 37 n° 1
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Tired (Four Last Songs)
Gabriel Fauré
Clair de lune op. 46 n° 2
Joseph Marx
Pierrot Dandy
Francis Poulenc
Pierrot FP 66
Virgil Thomson
Let’s Take a Walk
FINAL
Franz Schubert
An Sylvia D. 891
Hector Berlioz
La mort d’Ophélie H. 92A
Robert Schumann
Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart op. 135
Abschied von Frankreich
Gebet
Robert Fleming
The Confession Stone (Songs of Mary)
Bring me those needles, Martha
Everything is black
Oh, my boy Jesus
Franz Schubert
Die junge Nonne D. 828
Virgil Thomson
A Prayer to Saint Catherine
Official pianist: Olivier Godin
