Free Concert Series
Identität/個性
Samuel Chan, baritone; Rachael Kerr, pianoVocal Series
Germany-based Chinese-Canadian baritone Samuel Chan explores the unique identity of being an Asian artist working in Western opera through a program of songs and arias built around selections from Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde.
The effects of Orientalism in Western music, and how a Western education affects East Asian identity, are explored through a third-culture lens, a perspective unique to the second-generation Asian-Canadian/American experience.