Celebrity Series of Boston to Present 'What Makes It Great?' with Rob Kapilow, Today

Celebrity Series of Boston will present What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow and soprano Emily Albrink in All the Things You Are, American song from Kern to Copland and beyond on Friday, November 6, 2015 at 8pm at NEC's Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston, MA. Sponsored by Amy and Joshua Boger, and the D.L. Saunders Real Estate & Hotel Investors Group, AMO.

Tickets start at $30, and are available online at www.celebrityseries.org, by calling CelebrityCharge at (617) 482-6661 Monday-Friday 10:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m., or at the Jordan Hall Box Office, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston, MA.

Celebrity Series of Boston has presented What Makes It Great?© with Rob Kapilow 37 times since its Boston debut in 1997.

Rob Kapilow is a graduate of the Yale School of Music and the Eastman School of Music, and is an accomplished pianist. He has brought the joy and wonder of classical music to audiences of all ages and backgrounds, opening their ears to musical experiences and helping them to listen actively. The reach and diversity of his interactive events is considerable, both geographically and culturally: from Native American tribal communities to inner-city high school students and from children barely out of diapers to musicologists long out of Ivy League programs. Mr. Kapilow's popularity and appeal are reflected in notable engagements: on NBC's "Today Show" in conversation with Katie Couric, in a program for broadcast on PBS's "Live From Lincoln Center" in January 2008; and in his books, All You Have To Do Is Listen and What Makes It Great? Kapilow's What Makes It Great? (WMIG) made its debut on NPR's Performance Today nearly 20 years ago, and with its accessible ten-minute format it quickly attracted a wide base of fans and followers.

Soprano Emily Albrink has been hailed by The New York Times as "delightful and vocally strong and versatile," and has collaborated with venerable composers and conductors such as James Levine, Plácido Domingo, Robert Spano, Marin Alsop, Jake Heggie, and John Musto. A 2010 alumna of the Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program at the Washington National Opera, Ms. Albrink was a finalist in the Stella Maris Vocal Competition. She recently performed at Washington National Opera to perform the role of Sophie in Werther, and sang Marian Paroo in The Music Man with Ash Lawn Opera. Previously, Ms. Albrink made her Kentucky Opera debut as Adina in L'Elisir d'Amore and returned to the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, conducted by Alsop. She also made her Alice Tully Hall debut singing Knoxville Summer of 1915 with the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas and finished the season as Evvy in the U.S. premiere of Death and the Powers with the American Repertory Theater and the Chicago Opera Theater.

In 2010, Ms. Albrink made her international debut with a 10-day tour of China as the soprano soloist with the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir, and appeared in Le Nozze di Figaro with the Washington National Opera. Ms. Albrink appeared in 2008 at Carnegie Hall to sing Nuria in Osvaldo Golijov's Ainadamar with Dawn Upshaw and the Orchestra of St. Luke's, conducted by Spano. She also performed the role with the Colorado Music Festival, Opera Boston, the Phoenix Symphony, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the latter of which was under the baton of Miguel Harth-Bedoya. An ardent champion of new music, Ms. Albrink made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2006 in the world premiere of Clarice Assad's Confessions. She returned three years later to sing John Adams' Grand Pianola Music. In addition, Ms. Albrink performed the West Coast premiere of Heggie's Rise and Fall with the composer at the piano.

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