Anne Sofie von Otter mezzo-soprano
Brad Mehldau piano
Bengt Forsberg piano
Friday, February 13, 8pm, Sanders Theatre
Jazz pianist Brad Mehldau is an elegant, classically informed, inventive and introspective musician, and mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter is a performer of poise, intimacy, and irresistible charisma. Mehldau and von Otter have begun a unique collaboration, at once audacious and perfectly sensible; a program of both jazz and classical music in the hands of superlative musicians, including a newly commissioned work by Mehldau. Enjoy this unforgettable evening of music in which the only genre that matters is beauty.
“[Anne Sofie von Otter] is everything you want in such a singer, with her wide-ranging, flexible voice seemingly hewn from some great Swedish pine. Beyond its solidity, there is a natural, unfussy beauty to her sound.”
—Los Angeles Daily News
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