U of A Alumna Sarah Mesko's 'Through the Years' Coming to Faulkner Center

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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Faulkner Performing Arts Center opens its 2018-19 season in style with the operatic talents of Sarah Mesko at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7. Mesko, accompanied by pianist Lyndon Meyer, will perform 'Through The Years’, an assortment of opera selections that take the audience on a journey through composers and styles from multiple eras.

Praised by The Washington Post for her “consistently beautiful sound,” Mesko is rapidly gaining attention for her “rich mezzo soprano” voice and musicality. A native of Hot Springs, she holds a Master of Music in vocal performance from Rice University and a Bachelor of Music in vocal and flute performance from the University of Arkansas.

Tickets are $10-20 and available now. For tickets or more information about other performances and events, visit our website, give us a call at 479-575-5387, or stop by our box office at 453 N. Garland on the University of Arkansas campus, open 1:30–5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

About Sarah Mesko:  A native of Hot Springs, Sarah Mesko made her Metropolitan Opera debut as the Second Lady in The Magic Flute last season. She was heard in recitals with the Dallas Opera at the Dallas Museum of Art, and Henderson State University in Arkansas, and with tenor Paul Appleby for the George London Foundation at the Morgan Library in New York City. She also sang Mozart’s Requiem with Mercury Baroque in Houston and appeared in two pieces with the Oregon Bach Festival: Dejanira in Handel’s Hercules and in Beethoven’s Missa solemnis. She recently made her role debut as Carmen at Washington National Opera in the Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist performance. She joined the Metropolitan Opera for their Rising Stars concert tour across the United States and also covered Malcolm in La donna del lago on the mainstage. Ms. Mesko debuted at the Glimmerglass Festival in Vivaldi’s Catone in Utica to great acclaim. She was seen at Washington National Opera as the Second Lady in Die Zauberflöte and made her debut at Houston Grand Opera as Mrs. Segstrom in A Little Night Music. At Rice University, she appeared as Komponist in Ariadne auf Naxos and as Charlotte in A Little Night Music. While studying at the University of Arkansas, she performed the title role in Hansel and Gretel, Le Prince Charmant in Cendrillon, and Goffredo in Rinaldo.

About Lyndon Meyer:  Lyndon Meyer has studied voice with Carol Webber and Janice Yoes, and has performed continuo accompaniment on both harpsichord and organ. An experienced choral director and accompanist, he served previously as music director and organist for St. Thomas More Church in Rochester, New York. Lyndon holds degrees a Bachelor of Music from the University of Arkansas and a Master of Music from the Eastman School of Music.

About the Jim and Joyce Faulkner Performing Arts Center: The newest performing arts center at the University of Arkansas — a renovation of the old Field House — is named the Jim and Joyce Faulkner Performing Arts Center, in honor of the couple’s major gift to the project. Completed in September 2017, this world-class performance venue is 39,400 square feet, with seating for 587, and a stage that can accommodate as many as 250 performers. The center is the main performance venue for the university’s J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences Department of Music and hosts guest musical activities for the university and Northwest Arkansas community.

About the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences: The J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences is the largest and most academically diverse unit on campus with 19 departments and 43 academic programs and research centers. The college provides the core curriculum for all University of Arkansas students and is named for J. William Fulbright, former university president and longtime U.S. senator.

About the University of Arkansas: The University of Arkansas provides an internationally competitive education for undergraduate and graduate students in more than 200 academic programs. The university contributes new knowledge, economic development, basic and applied research, and creative activity while also providing service to academic and professional disciplines. The Carnegie Foundation classifies the University of Arkansas among only 2 percent of universities in America that have the highest level of research activity. U.S. News & World Report ranks the University of Arkansas among its top American public research universities. Founded in 1871, the University of Arkansas comprises 10 colleges and schools and maintains a low student-to-faculty ratio that promotes personal attention and close mentoring.