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 Victoria Kirsch - Pianist and OperaArts Music Director |
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In 1998, pianist Victoria Kirsch began an extensive collaboration with Julia Migenes (Carmen in the 1984 film with Plácido Domingo) on the celebrated soprano's one-woman show, Diva on the Verge, playing the show throughout the world. Victoria has collaborated separately with soprano Robin Farnsley and baritone Gregorio González on numerous occasions, and she is delighted to bring these two very special performers together for the first time on the Rancho Mirage Library Music Series. She has recently been named music director and pianist for Opera Arts, a new organization dedicated to serving the performing arts in the Desert region. Victoria is a popular teaching artist for the Los Angeles Opera's Education and Community Programs Department and has served as an official pianist for the Operalia Competition and the Metropolitan Opera's National Council Auditions. She was a vocal faculty member at USC's Thornton School of Music and the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, where she played in the studio of renowned baritone and master teacher Martial Singher. She currently creates and performs ongoing exhibit-based programs at local museums, and she is the pianist and music director of the LA-based Operetta Foundation, which presents staged concerts of rare operetta gems. A recent recipient of an NEA Chairman's Grant from outgoing chair Dana Gioia, she is co-creating a program based on the works of Emily Dickinson. She has performed on numerous music series, including Sundays Live at LACMA, Grand Performances at California Plaza and Jacaranda in Santa Monica. She is married to Michael Alexander, director of Grand Performances in downtown LA and immediate past chair of the California Arts Council. |
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