Patricia Au

If you've been to a student recital before, you probably expect to hear something like a traditional concert by a touring artist.

Recitals by doctoral students are a somewhat different affair. In the course of completing the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at New England Conservatory, performance majors present not just one, but three full-length recitals, for which they also write program notes. Composers present a recital of their chamber music, then complete a large-scale original work. In both cases, it's an opportunity to observe multiple facets of an emerging artist.

Collaborative pianist Patricia Au, student of Cameron Stowe and Jonathan Feldman, presents Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin with tenor Jonas Budris.

The program:

Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin (text by Wilhelm Müller)
The Poet as the Prologue (spoken)

Das Wandern
Wohin?

Halt!

Danksagung an den Bach

Am Feierabend

Der Neugierige

Life at the Mill (spoken)

Ungeduld

Morgengruß

Des Müllers Blumen

Tränenregen

Mein!

Pause

Mit dem grünen Lautenbande

Der Jäger

Eifersucht und Stolz

First pain, last joy (spoken)

Die liebe Farbe

Die böse Farbe

The Forget-me-Flower (spoken)

Trockne Blumen

Der Müller und der Bach

Des Baches Wiegenleied

The Poet’s Epilogue (spoken)