Nam & Moteki in Recital and Masterclass
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Voice Area welcomes guest artists MeeAe Cecilia Nam, soprano, and Mutsumi Moteki, piano for a Guest Artist Recital and Masterclass. Nam and Moteki will present a masterclass for the UNL Voice students on Monday, October 15, 2007 at 7 PM in the Westbrook Recital Hall (WMB 119). The event is free and open to the public. On Tuesday October, 16 at 7:30 PM in the Kimball Recital Hall they will present a recital featuring the works of Mozart, Granados, and Debussy. The recital will also feature selections from David Kirtley’s Haiku Songs of Karigane, a Nebraska premiere. The event is free and open to the public!
Soprano MeeAe Cecilia Nam has appeared as soloist in operas, concerts, and recitals in the United States, Germany, Austria, and her native South Korea. Her artistry encompasses a wide range of vocal repertoire that includes composers as diverse as J. S. Bach, or the avantgardist Gyorgy Kúrtag. She has performed as guest artist with numerous ensembles including the Boulder Philharmonic, Colorado Music Festival, Colorado Chamber Players, Evergreen Chamber Orchestra, the Jefferson Symphony, the DaVinci String Quartet, the Denver Young Artists Orchestra, Denver Philharmonic Orchestra, Fort Collins Symphony.
She also sang “Pamina” in The Magic Flute and “Clori” in L’Egistowith the CU Lyric Theatre and recently performed the lead role “Shulamith” in the US premiere of Joseph Dorfman’s one act opera “Songs of Shulamith” in Colorado Springs. Other recent appearances as guest soloist were with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra in “Most Romantic Classics,” and the Mozarteum Symphony Orchestra in Mozart’s Requiem, “Coronation Mass” and “Exsultate, jubilate” during the Salzburg International Summer Festival.
Dr. Nam earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in vocal performance and pedagogy from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is Assistant Professor of voice at Metropolitan State College of Denver where she serves as chair of the vocal studies program.
In 2001 the MTNA invited Dr. Nam together with the Ariel Trio for their National Convention to sing “Voice of the River Han (2001)” written for her by David Mullikin. In June in 2001 and 2002 she was a guest recitalist and lecturer at the conference of the State Colorado Music Teacher’s Association and in March 2003 she gave a lecture recital at the MTNA National Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. Since 2002 she has been invited to perform series of recitals for Organ and voice in Salzburg, Austria and in Germany during the summer music festival.
Her upcoming concerts include performance of Bach’s “Easter Oratorio” with Boulder Bach Festival Orchestra a series of recitals with Dr. Horst Buchholz, organist, in Germany and Austria in Summer 2007.
“Soprano Mee-Ae Nam has a voice of surprising power for so petite a frame, accurate in intonation, well-supported in delivery and with sly bits of interpretation thrown in.”
— Glenn Giffin, The Denver Post
“A clear, well-supported voice that moves easily in its registers. .....extra care in projecting words,....in Fauré’s “Les Roses d’Ispahan” her projection was that of fantasy to match the text’s evocations of poetic grandeur.”
— Glenn Giffin, The Denver Post
Since her college years in Tokyo, Japan, Mutsumi Moteki has been active as a vocal coach/accompanist. She received extensive training in this area from Westminster Choir College and University of Michigan as well as prestigious summer programs such as Music Academy of the West, Steans Institute for Young Artists, Franz-Schubert-Institut in Baden bei Wien, and Conservatoire de musique in Genève. She is currently an associate professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she teaches singing diction, vocal repertoire, heads the musical staff of CU Opera, and is a member of newly formed Collaborative Piano Faculty.
In the spring of 2000 she taught 5 weeks at Hochschule für Musik “Hans Eisler” in Berlin, Germany, as an exchange professor. She also taught at Kobe College in Japan for a year as the Bryant Drake Guest Professor during the academic year 2002-2003, and holds a vocal accompanying faculty position at University of Miami’s Salzburg Summer Program.
