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Mezzo-soprano Samantha Hankey is set to make her Carnegie Hall debut on March 10, 2023 at the Weill Recital Hall as part of Great Singers III: Evenings of Song.

In a statement, Hankey said, “After having postponed this recital for over 2 years, when revisiting the program material I wanted it to be a celebration filled with music I adore and have always wanted to perform. Highlights include Ravel’s masterpiece, Schéhérazade, and selections of Schönbergs cabaret songs, the Brettl Lieder.”

She added, “The first half of the recital was inspired by Berg’s Sieben frühe Lieder, and my hope to explore and expand upon a journey from night to day, largely through repertoire from the second Viennese school and its predecessors. The inclusion of repertoire by Alma Mahler (who was herself a student of Zemlinsky) was particularly important to me because her music brings a female writing perspective from this time and is the perfect vehicle to highlight the evolution in compositional style of the early 20th century.”

Hankey will be joined by Sophie Raynaud on piano.