The Artists Performing Finch's Songs
Teresa Radomski is Professor of Voice at Wake Forest University, where she has taught in the Department of Music since 1977. Her extensive teaching, performing, and research experience has contributed to the successful training of numerous undergraduates, many of whom are active professional singers, voice teachers, and choral conductors. She holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the University of Colorado, and a Fellowship in Otolaryngology from the Wake Forest University Center for Voice Disorders. Her publications include articles on vocal pedagogy and the first critical editions of two nineteenth-century salon operas by Manuel García (1775–1832): L’isola disabitata, which received its modern premiere at Wake Forest University in 2005, followed by European stagings (Spain, France, Italy), and Un avvertimento ai gelosi, performed in Spain (2016) and at the Caramoor Music Festival (2017). Both operas are published by A-R Editions (2006, 2015). Her commissioned transcription of another García opera, Il finto sordo, was recently used for a modern premiere by the Fundación Juan March in Madrid and Bilbao (May, 2019); this production was internationally live-streamed and broadcast on Spanish National Television.
Peter Kairoff was born in Los Angeles and studied at the University of Southern California, where he received Master’s and Doctoral degrees with highest honors. He also studied for two years in Florence, Italy, as winner of a Fulbright Scholarship and a Rotary International Fellowship. His teachers include Jerome Lowenthal and Brooks Smith in California, and Orazio Frugoni in Florence. He has performed throughout the world as pianist and harpsichordist to great critical acclaim. In recitals in Shanghai, Rio de Janeiro, Berlin, New York, Rome, Moscow, and many other musical centers, reviewers have noted his “meticulous accuracy and profound musicality” (Oxford Mail, UK), and his “Fire and Passion” (Washington Post, USA). He has published eight CD recordings on the Albany and Centaur record labels, which have been enthusiastically received for their “powerful romantic passion and broad sweep” (American Record Guide), and are frequently heard on classical music radio stations throughout the world. Dr. Kairoff is Professor and Chair of the Department of Music at Wake Forest University, where he has taught since 1988. He also taught at the University of Texas at Austin, the State University of New York, and Middlebury College, and has given master classes at conservatories in Moscow, Brazil, Italy, China, and several states in the U.S. He has also served as judge in a number of international piano competitions. In 2012 he was named a “Steinway Artist” in recognition of his “outstanding artistic contributions” in the field of piano performance.
