German Lieder Master Class with Dr. Deen Larsen, Adjunct Professor and Founder & Director of the Franz-Schubert Institute Join Dr. Deen Larsen, founder and director of the Franz-Schubert–Institut, for a Vocal Study Master Class focusing on German Lieder. This collaborative master class will feature voice and piano students from the Department of Music performing Lieder by Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, and Clara Schumann. This master class is open to any interested students, faculty or members of the general public. For more information, please contact Catherine Abele : [email protected] Dr Deen Larsen - Biography Deen Larsen, founder and director of the Franz-Schubert–Institut, was born in Richfield, Utah, U.S.A. in 1943 and has lived in Austria since 1973. Larsen studied literature and philosophy at Reed College in Portland, Oregon (B.A.), at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut (M.phil.), and at the University of Vienna (Mag.phil., Dr.phil.). His main scholarly interests are German poetry from the age of Goethe, the philosophy of symbolic forms, the writings of James Joyce, and American social history. Larsen has taught poetry of the Lied at the Yale School of Music and the Vienna Academy of Music, opera history at Stanford in Austria, and is currently Adjunct Professor of Music at the University of Alberta. He has been awarded the Kaiser-Friedrich-Medaille in Bronze and the Kulturpreis für Musik of the City of Baden, as well as the Gold Medal of Honour of the Province of Lower Austria in recognition of the international significance of the Franz-Schubert-Institut.
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