We are excited to bring you a classical vocal recital during this year’s Little Norway Festival.

Stephanie Pfundt, soprano, and Kimly Wang, piano, present a recital Ethereal Synthesis. Program includes Ocean Airs, a set of original songs by Ms. Pfundt. Other works include vocal music by Mozart, Strauss, Grieg, Rachmaninoff, and Lili Boulanger.

Audience Q&A with the musicians will follow after the recital performance.

The recital program will be provided online via QR Code. We encourage attendees to scan the code with their phone to follow along. Translations of songs are included in the online program. (A few printed copies of the program only will be available for those who don’t have a phone.) For those who would like to print their own full program (12 pages) prior to the recital, the program document is available here.

Stephanie Pfundt

Alaskan soprano and composer, Stephanie Pfundt, has been praised for her pure bell like tone, effortless and malleable high notes, stunning musicality, and transportive sound worlds. An alumna of Pacific Lutheran University, she is grateful to have studied with acclaimed coloratura soprano, Cyndia Sieden. Operatic roles include Queen of the Night (Die Zauberflöte), 2nd Handmaid (Dido and Aeneas), Johanna (Sweeney Todd), and Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro). As a graduate student, she was seen as Ma Zegner in Boston University’s 2021 production of Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up and this April, she will make her role debut as Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Così fan tutte. Named a Seattle District winner in the 2018 MONC Auditions, she was most recently a 2021 Laffont Competition Encouragement Award Winner. An insightful chamber musician, she composed and premiered her first song cycle, “Ocean Airs,” for soprano and piano in the fall of 2020.

Kimly Wang

Born in China, pianist Kimly studied at Musikgymnasium C.P. E. Bach in Berlin, Germany, before immigrating to Canada. She holds a master’s degree in Collaborative Piano and a bachelor’s degree in Solo Piano Performance from the University of Western Ontario in Canada. As an emerging young artist, Kimly has appeared on stage in North America, Europe, and China, playing in a broad range of settings, including solo recitals, chamber music concerts, and opera performances. She was the prize winner of the KAWAI Music Competition and Germany Youth Music Competition. Kimly maintains a strong interest in vocal repertoire, which has been enhanced through her assistantships at the New England Conservatory of Music and Western University, where she played for voice lessons, vocal repertoire classes, and opera productions. Kimly is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Musical Arts in collaborative piano at Boston University under the tutelage of Shiela Kibbe.

Sponsors

Event space provided generously by the Petersburg Lutheran Church

Artist travel provided by FireLight Gallery & Framing

Sponsored in part by the Petersburg Rotary Club