Her Music Lives
Season One
Five Extraordinary Songs by Five Exceptional Women. Dr. Susan Mohini Kane, soprano and Dr. Katharine Boyes, piano, bring you Season One: Night Songs by Women. We hope you’ll use these videos in your events, courses, or just in your life. They are beautiful and interesting.
Season One: Night Songs by Women
Season One: Night Songs by Women
Five Extraordinary Songs by Five Exceptional Women
This lecture-recital series will introduce you to five talented women composers, their stories and their music - destined to be discovered by you, here in the 21st-century. Each composer’s work highlights her settings of texts on the theme of “night.” These wonderful songs could be taught in vocal and piano studios, in music history and literature courses, and shared with groups that promote the voices of women and girls.
This video lecture/recital series was created by Dr. Katharine Boyes (piano) and Dr. Susan Mohini Kane (soprano). These talented artists studied the music and history of women composers while graduate students at The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Their doctoral theses that highlight women composers’ music for piano, and voice and piano, are listed below. Subsequent varied interests in promoting the works of women led to recordings - Spotify, Apple Music - workshops, conference presentations, and lecture/recitals on women in music.
Publications:
Dr. Katharine Boyes (piano) – Portraits of the Seasons by Women Composers on Amazon.com and CD Baby.
Katharine Boyes’s doctoral thesis: The Months of the Year Portrayed in Piano Works by Fanny Hensel, Charles-Valentin Alkan, Peter Tchaikovsky, and Judith Lang-Zaimont.
Dr. Susan Mohini Kane (soprano) – A Moment of Joy includes songs by Sara Carina Graef, Fanny Hensel, and Cécile Chaminade on Amazon.com & From the Heart includes a song by Madeleine Dring, also on Amazon.
Susan Kane’s doctoral thesis: Liza Lehmann (1982-1918): Her Times, Roles, and Songs.
Want to Meet These Artists in Person?
Both Susan and Katharine are available for workshops, presentations, performances, and masterclasses. Please use the form below to contact us. We’d love to hear from you!
Collaborator
Pianist Katharine Boyes, a native of England, has performed solo and chamber music recitals throughout Great Britain and the U.S.A. in venues such as the Royal Festival Hall and Barbican Center, London; Temple Square Concert Series, Salt Lake City; and Davis Symphony Hall, San Francisco. She received a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano Performance from the College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, and also degrees from the Royal Academy of Music, London and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
Katharine has a special interest in piano music by women composers and in 2001 she released Piano Portraits of the Seasons by Women Composers, a CD of repertoire which portrays the seasons. She is currently preparing repertoire for another CD entitled, Nocturnes by Women Composers. She is also developing a lecture-recital of songs by women composers about the night with soprano, Susan Kane, for 2020. Katharine has created a music-theatrical performance entitled Monologues and Music in which she performs as women composer-pianists of the European Salons of the nineteenth century. She also been featured on BBC Radio and American Public Radio.
Katharine is active in furthering the education of young musicians, college students and adults and frequently serves as adjudicator, clinician, masterclass specialist, lecturer, and workshop coordinator. She has studied the Alexander Technique with several clinicians including Charles Stein of Winston-Salem, NC and Barbara Conable of Columbus, OH, and her interest and study of Eurhythmics began with Allen Otte, a member of the Cincinnati Percussion Ensemble.
Currently, Katharine is Assistant Professor in the Fine Arts Department at Wake Technical Community College, Raleigh. Her previous faculty positions include University of North Carolina School of the Arts, North Carolina State University, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Wake Forest University, Preparatory Music School – University of Cincinnati, and Salem College.
Links:
https://www.amazon.com/Piano-Portraits-Seasons-Women-Composers/dp/B00005LB80
https://www.ccmusic.com/katharine-boyes-piano-portraits-of-the-season/660355563928