Pianist Lisa Withers, an alumna of West Virginia Universitys Division of Music who now heads the Music Department at Emory&Henry College, will join tenor Stephen Sieck for a guest artist recital at 8:15 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 23, in the Bloch Learning and Performance Hall at the Creative Arts Center.

The event is free and open to the public.

TitledAspects of Love,the recital will featureHorch, die Lercheby Otto Nicolai;Ganymed,Im FrhlingandDie Bse Farbeby Franz Schubert;Pome dun Jourby Gabriel Fauré;Chanson tristeby Henri Duparc;RimaandTu pupila es azulby Joaquin Turina; andSeven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22by Benjamin Britten.

Sieck, director of choral and vocal studies at Emory&Henry, will perform the love songs. The songs are all based on poems by Herman Mosenthal, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Ernst Schulze, Jean Lahor, Bécquer and Michelangelo, among others, in the original German, French, Spanish and Italian. Translations will be provided.

Withers previously served on the faculties of Augustana College in Illinois and Louisiana Tech University.

She has been active as a solo and collaborative pianistin college, university and civic concert series throughout the Midwest and eastern United States, collaborating with string quartets and trios, chamber orchestras, brass and woodwind soloists and vocalists in performances of new music, as well as works from the traditional repertoire.

Withers holds a doctorate in piano performance from WVU , a masters degree from the University of Michigan and a bachelors degree from Alderson-Broaddus College. She studied at the prestigious French Piano Institute in Paris in 1998.

Sieck received his doctoral and masters degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his bachelors from the University of Chicago.

As a choral singer, he has performed with ensembles such as the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the Roger Wagner Chorale and the Renaissance group Ensemble Chorags.

As a lyric tenor, he performed the principal tenor role in PurcellsThe Fairy Queen,Don Attavio in MozartsDon Giovanni,Nanki-Poo in SullivansThe Mikadoand Candide in BernsteinsCandide.His oratorio solo credits include symphonic/choral works by Bach, Handel, Mozart, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Gounod and Vaughan Williams.

For more information about the concert, contact the College of Creative Arts at 304-293-4841 ext. 3108.