***CALENDAR ADVISORY*** 

 Faculty Recital Featuring Arisa Kusumi, Accompanied by Helen Huang

  WHAT: Rollins College Department of Music will present a faculty recital featuring light

lyric soprano Arisa Kusumi accompanied by acclaimed pianist Helen Huang. This event is free and open to the public.

WHO: Light lyric soprano Arisa Kusumi has been praised for her “elegant tone and

beautiful phrasing,” (Orlando Sentinel). Her recent concert and recital appearances include the Verbier Festival in Switzerland, the Marlboro Music Festival, Austrian Embassy in Washington, D.C, the Robert Schumann Philharmonic of Germany and the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park. She has sung in more than 300 opera performances around the world, including at the San Francisco Opera and at the Chemnitz and Halle Operas of Germany. She received her Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music and continued her studies at Münchener Singschul' of the Bavarian State Opera, Ravinia Festival, and the Goethe Institut. Currently, she is an adjunct professor of voice at Rollins College.

WHERE: Tiedtke Concert Hall Rollins College

1000 Holt Avenue Winter Park, FL WHEN: 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 31  CONTACT: For more information, contact Susan Throm-White, sthrom@rollins.edu, 407-646-

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__________________ About Rollins College:

Founded in 1885, Rollins College is Florida’s oldest recognized college. Located in Winter Park, near Orlando, Rollins is consistently ranked as one of the top regional universities in the South by U.S. News & World Report. In addition to full-time undergraduate programs in Arts & Sciences and the College of Professional Studies, Rollins offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs for working adults through its evening program at the Hamilton Holt School and graduate business degree programs through its Crummer Graduate School of Business, which has been ranked a top MBA program by Forbes and Bloomberg Businessweek. Rollins serves approximately 3,300 degree-seeking students annually. For more information, visit www.rollins.edu. “Like” Rollins on Facebook and follow on Twitter @RollinsCollege.

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