ELENA SHARKOVA, CONDUCTOR

Conductor Elena Sharkova returns for a concert highlighting the creative expressions of women composers and poets. Enjoy a diverse program of music where the lives, experiences, passions, and pains of women are described in their own voices. The program will feature Imogen Holst, daughter of Gustav Holst and known for her folk and dance-like melodies, alongside medieval mystic Hildegard von Bingen, and contemporary Russian composer Svetlana Nesterova, among others. University of Miami Ensemble Artist Program students join the professional ensemble for this concert for a cappella chorus.

FEATURING WORKS BY:

Imogen Holst

Hildegard von Bingen

Judith Weir