Percussion Instructor Kevin Good presented a Voice Recital on Thursday starring vocalist Garineh Avakian and pianist Joseph Lee in the Performing Arts Building.
The duo synchronized sublime rhythm with the emotion of their first recital, “Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson,” by Aaron Copland.
The recital captured the feelings of Dickinson at every tone elevation and piano strike.
Pierce Music alumni Lexi Cantu, who now works as a professional vocalist, expressed what she felt from the performance.
“I felt happiness, joy and appreciation just to be here to hear them sing and. Joseph Lee on the piano,” Cantu said. “They really know how to bring us with them on their journey and where this song is taking them. It is a gift to be able to bring an emotion to an audience.”
Cantu said that this is what music is meant to do.
“It’s supposed to help us all connect and try to understand what the character is feeling in their song,” Cantu said.
Good said their goal for the entire series is that they can showcase different types of music week-to-week.
“We did world music the first week, some music from Indonesia, we also had a singer/songwriter come in, we had someone do classical composition, which was more of a talk than a performance,” Good said. “We really wanted it to be a variety show of different genres of music.”
Audience member Joyce Sindel expressed how wonderful the performance was.
“I studied with Dr. Avakian and I sang in the choir, but I never really heard her sing solo,” Sindel said. “This was really an amazing putting together of the things she tells us she does. She has a wonderful presentation, a fabulous range and I felt really good listening to her.”
