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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

JOE DAVISSON AND NATALIE ARDUINO IN CONCERT

Texas Wesleyan University’s Department of Music presents adjunct professor Joe Davisson, tenor, Natalie Arduino, mezzo-soprano, and visiting professor Mark Stamper, piano, in recital at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 3, in Martin Hall, which is located in the Ann Waggoner Fine Arts building, 1309 Wesleyan St. The performance is free and open to the public. No reservations are required.

Arduino will open the concert with Purcell’s “Music For a While.” Davisson will then take the limelight and present, “For This Our Truest Int’rest” by George Fredric Handel. Each of the vocalists will then perform three pieces each, which include pieces by Aaron Copland, Gilbert and Sullivan, and “Aria from Farewell to Arms,” by Gerald Finzi. The second half of the program includes the “Canticle II” from Abraham and Isaac and “Thou In thy Mercy from Israel in Egypt,” by Handel, which Arduino and Davisson will sing together.   

Davisson combines careers of teaching and performing. He instructs private voice at Texas Wesleyan University, Tarrant County College North East, as well as Keller Middle School, Keller High and Central High. Davisson has appeared a soloist with the St. Louis Symphony, St. Louis Bach Society, Austin Civic Chorus, Casa Manana and the Regal Opera. Davisson is a graduate of both St. Louis and New England Conservatories.

Arduino in an alumna of the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists and has appeared with opera companies all over the country including the Metropolitan Opera Guild and the Dallas Opera. In 1996 Arduino was the winner of the American Opera Society of Chicago competition. Arduino earned her Bachelor’s of Music from Southern Methodist University and her Masters of Music from the Mannes College of Music in New York.

Martin Hall is located at the northeast corner of Rosedale Street and Wesleyan Street on the Texas Wesleyan University historic campus in east Fort Worth. Free parking is available on campus.

For more details, contact the Department of Music at (817) 531-4992 or visit us on the Web at http://department.txwes.edu/mus/.