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Opera singer and part-time Southampton resident Ashley Bell will team with noted Chinese organist Chao Liao in a solo recital to benefit Sacred Hearts of Jesus & Mary Church on Saturday, August 28.
Ms. Bell was the first member of the children’s choir at the church and became a cantor at age 9 while she performed during the week with the Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale with distinction in Italian and international studies in 2006 and has performed in the United States, France and Italy. Among her previous roles, Ms. Bell, who is also a 2006 recipient of the Yale Browne Irish Performing Arts Award, has performed as Guadelana in Offenbach’s “La Perichole” with Opera du Périgord in Thiviers, France, and as Lucy (“The Telephone”), Despina (“Cosi Fan Tutte”), Lauretta (“Gianni Schicchi”) and Clarina in “La Cambiale di Matrimonio.”
Chao Liao is currently the church organist at St John’s Episcopal Church in East Hartford and is the senior assistant organist and John Rose Organ Scholar at Trinity College.
The one-hour recital will begin at 7 p.m. in the church at 168 Hill Street in Southampton Village. Tickets are $10 and all proceeds benefit the church.
on Aug 24, 2010