Angela Haas giving faculty recital Feb. 8 in Rosch

Soprano Angela Haas (in photo) will perform a faculty recital Friday, Feb. 8 at 8 p.m. in Rosch Recital Hall. The program features Argento's Pulitzer Prize-winning song cycle "From the Diary of Virginia Woolf".  Dr. Haas will also be performing songs by Strauss, Wolf, Brahms, and Rachmaninoff with pianist Anne Kissel Harper.

Assistant Professsor in the Fredonia School of Music, Dr. Haas is a native of New Orleans, LA.  While teaching voice and vocal literature at SUNY Fredonia, she continues to pursue her performing career. Dr. Haas spent a summer at the Tanglewood Music Festival where she performed Bach cantatas under Seiji Ozawa. While studying in Rome, she performed in Suor Angelica and sang several recitals. She recently sang the role of the Mother in "Hansel and Gretel" with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. She was also the soprano soloist in the Mozart "Requiem" with the Western New York Chamber Orchestra and in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Midland-Odessa Orchestra in Texas.

After completing her undergraduate degree in chemistry at Tulane University, she earned a Master of Music degree from New England Conservatory and a Doctor of Music degree from Florida State University.