Secrest Artists Series presents Dawn Upshaw & The Brentano Quartet

A guest post by Wake Forest Univerity’s Secrest Artist Series

Grammy Award-winning American soprano Dawn Upshaw joins the Brentano String Quartet on Thursday, Feb. 24 at 7:30 p.m. in Brendle Recital Hall in a program of early and contemporary music based on the myth of Dido from Vergil’s Aeneid. The concert includes a World Premiere work co-commissioned by the Secrest Artists Series, “Dido Reimagined” by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Melinda Wagner and librettist Stephanie Fleischmann.

Join us at 6 p.m. for a special tie-in event hosted by the Department of Classics and the Interdisciplinary Arts Center featuring readings from Vergil’s Aeneid — including some excerpts in a translation by Wake Forest poet and classicist Allen Mandelbaum —and two pieces of Aeneid-inspired music composed by T. H. M. Gellar-Goad.

About Dawn Upshaw

Joining a rare natural warmth with a fierce commitment to the transforming communicative power of music, Dawn Upshaw has achieved worldwide celebrity as a singer of opera and concert repertoire ranging from the sacred works of Bach to the freshest sounds of today. Her ability to reach to the heart of music and text has earned her both the devotion of an exceptionally diverse audience, and the awards and distinctions accorded to only the most distinguished of artists. In 2007, she was named a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation, the first vocal artist to be awarded the five-year “genius” prize, and in 2008 she was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Learn more here.

WFU and medical school faculty, staff and retirees receive free admission for themselves and one guest to each Secrest Artists Series performance. WFU Students receive free admission for themselves. Simply show your WFU I.D. at the door. We encourage those with a WFU I.D. to pre-register here in order to keep track of seat availability. Seating is unassigned.

Tickets for the community are $5-$18.