This preview has been provided by the Duke University Music Department.

“Shakespeare: Music’s Muse” presents musical works inspired by some of Shakespeare’s most famous plays performed by soprano Andrea Moore (UNC-CH) and pianist David Heid (Duke University), interspersed with monologues from Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Othello, and As You Like It performed by Duke theater students Molly Forlines and Steven Li.

Andrea Moore holds a Master of Music and an Artist Diploma from Yale University as well as a Bachelor of Music from the Peabody Conservatory of Music and is a graduate of the UNCSA. She has served as a Lecturer on the UNC-Chapel Hill voice faculty since 2009. Ms. Moore performs with companies such as Hamburg Kammeroper, Central City Opera, Aspen Music Festival, The North Carolina Opera, Greensboro Opera, Long Leaf Opera Festival, Yale Opera, and Peabody Opera Theater. She is a prize winner in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and has been twice awarded the Yale School of Music Alumni Award.

David Heid comes to North Carolina after a successful career in New York City as a vocal coach/accompanist. Among the many well-known singers he has performed with are Karen Beardsley, Susan Dunn, Adria Firestone, Carolyn James and Christine Weidinger. He made his Lincoln Center debut in Alice Tully Hall in 1994. In the summer of 1997, he was heard at both the Darling Harbor Convention Center and the historic Towne Hall in Sydney, Australia. His coaching clients include past Grammy and Tony Award winners. Heid is currently a staff accompanist and teaches piano at Duke University as well as being in demand throughout the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area as a collaborative artist.

Works include:

Twelfth Night

If Music be the Food of Love – Purcell
When that I was and a little tiny boy – Schumann
    “Schlußlied des Narren”, op. 127
       (Lieder und Gesänge von Kerner, Heine, Strachwitz, Shakespeare) no. 5
Come Away, Come Away Death – Finzi
O mistress mine – Amy Beach

Hamlet (Ophelia)

Brahms – Ophelia Lieder
Chausson Op 28 no 3 – Chanson d’Ophelie
Strauss – Sie trugen ihn auf der bahre

Othello

Willow Songs
   Korngold
   Coleridge-Taylor
   Rossini

As You Like It

Blow Blow thou Winter Wind – Quilter
It was a Lover and a Lass – Baber
Under the Greenwood Tree – Korngold