Srinivasan Raghuraman (G), Voice

Emerson Voice Scholar Student Recital

April 12, 2019 | 11:30 am

Free & Open to the Public
April 12, 2019 | 11:30 am

Program

 

Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
Die schöne Müllerin, op. 25, D.795
Texts by Wilhelm Müller (1794–1827)
Translations by Celia Sgroi
 
2. Wohin?
6. Der Neugierige
10. Tränenregen
18. Trockne Blumen
19. Der Müller und der Bach
 
 
 
Paolo Tosti (1846–1916)
‘A vucchella
La serenata
Ideale
Non t’amo più
 
Translations from LiederNet Archive
 
 
 
Benjamin Britten (1913–1976)
Winter Words, op. 52
Texts by Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
 
1. At Day-Close in November
2. Midnight on the Great Western
5. The Choirmaster’s Burial
7. At the Railway Station, Upway
8. Before Life and After

 

About the Performer

Tenor Srinivasan Raghuraman is a fourth-year graduate student in computer science at CSAIL. He has been singing with the Concert Choir at MIT for six semesters and the Chamber Chorus for four, performing as a soloist in Bach’s G minor mass, Bach’s Cantata 191, Vaughan William’s “Serenade to Music”, Britten’s “Choirmaster’s Burial” (Winter Words) and more. He is also an Emerson Voice Scholar since the Fall of 2017 and is pursuing training in western classical voice under Kerry Deal. Outside of MIT, he has sung in the chorus for the Odyssey Opera’s production of Maid of Orleans (Tchaikovsky) in September 2017 and Queen of Sheba (Gounod) in September 2018, Boston Pops and the VCI program at the Boston Conservatory in the summer of 2017. Srini is a professional Carnatic vocalist (a form of classical music in India) for the past decade and a half. He also plays the Veena (an Indian stringed instrument) and the piano, and enjoys composing music in his spare time.