Empire Arts Center and Avant Hair & Skin Care Studio Present
The 20 Below Cabaret
Anne Christopherson performs "Songs that Raised Me" for one night only!
Enjoy cabaret and cocktails at the Empire as you enjoy the vocals of Anne Christopherson as she revisits the music that nurtured her artistic sensibilities, from opera, folk, pop, jazz, and country. Featuring Kaden Dowling at the piano and special guests Ella Henry and Justin Montigne.
Limited seating. Please reserve in advance.
Anne Christopherson, pictured above.
About Anne Christopherson:
Lyric coloratura soprano, Anne Christopherson enjoys a rewarding career as an educator, performer, and coach. Her “dazzlingly supple voice,” has been acclaimed in many genres in such venues as Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, Symphony Space, the Banff Centre for the Arts, Opera di Lucca (Italy), Renmin University (Beijing), the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, and the Colorado Music Festival. As a cabaret artist, Cabaret Scenes magazine lauded her “well-honed ability to convey emotion, tenderness, and poignancy...” in her one-woman show, I Hear Music, which premiered at The Duplex cabaret in NYC. Local audiences will have seen her perform on the UND campus, at the ND Museum of Art and the Firehall Theatre as well as with the Crimson Creek Players and Greater Grand Forks Symphony Orchestra.
She has premiered Oddly Beautiful and Three Songs to Texts by Terry Jacobson by North Dakota composer, Michael Wittgraf, and In the beginning, mountains, by Canadian composer, Diana McIntyre. She performed the France premiere of Christopher Berg’s Four Songs on Poems by Vladimir Nabokov at L’Atelier de la Main d’Or with pianist and Grand Prix du Disque winner, Mary Dibbern, a UND alumna.
In addition to her degrees from the University of Colorado-Boulder and The Ohio State University, she has studied with the esteemed Martin Isepp at the Banff Centre’s Academy of Art Song as well as multiple award winners of the cabaret world, Lennie Watts and Steven Ray Watkins. Dr. Christopherson is an Associate Professor of Voice at the University of North Dakota’s Department of Music.