Media Contacts:  
Rachel Evey, WVC Foundation executive director, 509-682-6415
Lupe Brito, WVC Foundation development director, 509-682-6573

The Wenatchee Valley College Foundation will host a free Piatigorsky Foundation concert featuring award winning mezzo-soprano Katherine Calcamuggio Donner and pianist Gabriel Evens on Tuesday, April 8 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at The Grove Recital Hall, located in the Music and Art Center (MAC) on the WVC Wenatchee campus.

This event is free and open to the public thanks to the generosity of the Woods family. A wine reception will be held at 5:30 p.m. and the concert will begin at 6:30 p.m. Seating is first come, first served. 

Calcamuggio has been featured in important role and company debuts across the United States, eliciting praise for her “soaring, rich voice” (The Miami Herald), “polished musical and dramatic characterizations” (Kurt Weill Newsletter), “fine coloratura technique” (Philadelphia Inquirer) and being “endearingly funny” (KDHX St. Louis).

Calcamuggio has received top prizes in the American Opera Society, Palm Beach Opera, Bel Canto and Shreveport Singer of the Year competitions. She has awards from the Chicago Women’s Musician’s Club and the Anna Sosenko Trust. She holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts from University of Michigan, a Master of Music degree from Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Music degree from Bowling Green State University.  Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Voice at the University of Louisville.

Evens is the Associate Professor of Jazz Piano, Composition and Arranging at the University of Louisville, Jazz Studies Program.  He has performed throughout the United States and in Malaysia, Singapore, Spain, and France. As an arranger and composer, Evens has released eight albums of original music, written commissions for Sheena Easton and Kate McGarry with the Cape Symphony Orchestra, and for Nnenna Freelon with the John Brown Big Band.

He is a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique, holds a Master of Arts in Jazz Piano Performance from the University of Miami, a Doctor of Musical Arts in Performance, and a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies (composition emphasis) from the University of North Texas.

The Wenatchee Valley College Foundation hosts the Piatigorsky Foundation for concerts twice a year. The concert series is made possible by the Woods family. For more information, visit www.wvc.edu/foundation.

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