Sage Fogle & Dana Lynne Varga – piano & voice
Doors open at 7:00 PM | Concert begins at 7:30 PM
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Praised for her “radiant soprano,” Dana Lynne Varga is a dynamic interpreter of a wide variety of repertoire on opera and concert stages. Dana frequently solos at Carnegie Hall, recently singing the Fauré Requiem and Mozart Requiem with the NYC Chamber Orchestra, as well as the Brahms Requiem and Haydn Lord Nelson Mass with the New England Symphonic Ensemble.
During Boston Lyric Opera’s 2023-2024 season, she performed as Clorinda in Rossini’s La Cenerentola and covered leading lady Léontine in Bologne’s The Anonymous Lover. Highlights of her busy concert career include Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with the Cantata Singers, Vaughan Williams’ Sea Symphony with the Metropolitan Chorale, Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor with Coro Allegro, Beethoven’s Mass in C at Tanglewood, and countless performances of Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Creation, and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony across the eastern seaboard. Favorite opera roles include Pallas Athene in Paride ed Elena,Micaëla in Carmen, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Alcina in Alcina, and Musetta in La bohème. A past first-place winner of the Classical Singer National Vocal Competition, Dana is also an accomplished voice teacher and career coach and a fierce advocate for progressive change in the classical vocal industry.
Sage Fogle (they/them) is a Boston-based collaborative pianist dedicated to building connections between musicians from diverse backgrounds and bringing people together through music. By creating rehearsal and performance spaces that push the boundaries of western classical music, Sage brings fresh perspectives to audiences across the United States.
Sage regularly appears as a recitalist, with a particular affinity for German Lieder, and has recently worked with the Boston Opera Collaborative, Harvard University, the Handel and Haydn Society, and the Brookline Symphony Orchestra. Sage holds a Master’s Degree in Collaborative Piano from the Longy School of Music of Bard College and a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance and Music History from the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music. Currently Director of Music at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Medford, Sage is also on staff in the vocal departments of Boston Conservatory and the Berklee School of Music.
Program
Piano & Voice:
Hermit Songs (complete) – Samuel Barber
Allerseelen – Richard Strauss
Die Nacht – Richard Strauss
Solo Piano:
Widmung – Schumann, arr. Liszt
Gretchen am Spinnrade – Schubert, arr. Liszt
Over the Rainbow – Harold Arlen
How Great Thou Art – arr. Mark Hayes
Water Sprites – Kathryn Woodard
Piano Four Hands (with Stephen Taylor):
Selections from Ma mère l’Oye – Maurice Ravel
