Liederabend!

Mezzo soprano Mary Ann Hart and pianist Dennis Helmrich will present Washington University’s annual Liederabend at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 10.

The recital, sponsored by the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences, will take place in the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum’s Steinberg Auditorium, located in Steinberg Hall, near the intersection of Skinker and Forsyth boulevards. Admission is $15, or $10 for seniors, students and Washington University faculty and staff; and $5 for Washington University students. Tickets are available at the Edison Theatre Box Office, (314) 935-6543, and at the door. For more information, call (314) 935-4841.

Literally translated as “evening of song,” Liederabend is a German term referring to a recital given by a singer and pianist, particularly of works by 19th-century Austrian or German composers. The Oct. 10 program will include lieder by Johannes Brahms, Antonín Dvorák, Edvard Grieg, Charles Ives, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann and Hugo Wolf.

Hart, professor and chair of voice at the Indiana University School of Music, holds a master’s degree in music from the University of Illinois and a diploma from the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna. Her many honors include first prize in the Concert Artists Guild International Competition and second prize in the Carnegie Hall International American Music Competition.

Hart has appeared with numerous American orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Kurt Masur, and given recitals in 26 states as well as Austria, Germany and Canada. She has recorded with the Chandos, Albany, Eterna, Arabesque, Telefunken-Decca and Musical Heritage labels, including songs of Charles Ives and Henry Cowell; music of Igor Stravinsky; and Philip Glass’s opera Hydrogen Jukebox.

Helmrich, a longtime faculty member at the Manhattan School of Music, has played piano from the age of five. He studied at Yale University and Boston University and also has served on the faculties of Antioch College, the State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany, SUNY Purchase, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and New York University. He has been affiliated with the Tanglewood Music Center continuously since 1970.

As a pianist, Helmrich has performed throughout the United States and in Europe, South America and Asia, with Hart as well as Phyllis Curtin, Richard Stilwell, Kathleen Battle, Roberta Peters, Roberta Alexander, Petra Lang, Eugenia Zukerman and Gary Schocker. He has recorded songs and chamber music on the Nonesuch, Albany, Delos, Chesky, Spectrum, Orion, Newport Classics, Musical Heritage and Samsung labels.