Ann Moss Soprano Sings Art Song at North Hill Friday, April 25 at 2pm
Poetry In Song
Ann Moss – Soprano
Marie-Elise Boyer – Piano

Art Song is a genre of Western classical chamber music that fuses poetry and music, typically composed for the duo of voice and piano. This afternoon program of Art Songs in German, French and English spotlights the words of three beloved poets – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Paul Verlaine, and Massachusetts’s own Emily Dickinson – writers whose imagery and insights have inspired composers past and present to set their words to music. Soprano and Teaching Artist Ann Moss is joined by Collaborative Pianist Marie-Elise Boyer to lead the audience on a listening journey that explores the beautiful marriage of language and melody
About the Artists
Soprano Ann Moss is an acclaimed recording artist, passionate teaching artist, and champion of contemporary vocal music. Described as a “fearless performer” of some of the most challenging music of the last two hundred years, Ann’s artistic mission is to lift up contemporary vocal literature to serve as narrative for the hard to speak about issues of our times. Her newest album Now I Am, with songs by Stephen Sondheim, Joni Mitchell and Tom Petty, was released on January 1st, 2025. She can also be heard on commercial releases from Angels Share Records, Albany Records, ARSIS Audio, Navona, Naxos, Ravello, and Jaded Ibis Productions. A twice-elected Governor of the SF Chapter of the Recording Academy, Ann shares that organization’s commitment to promoting diversity & inclusion, advocating for creators rights, protecting musicians in need, and saving music in our schools. She has been a featured soloist with San Francisco Symphony, SF Chamber Orchestra, UC Berkeley Symphony, West Edge Opera, SF Contemporary Music Players,Orchestra, UC Berkeley Symphony, West Edge Opera, SF Contemporary Music Players, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Earplay, Music of Remembrance, the Ives, Alexander, Lydian and Hausmann String Quartets. She is a native of Lincoln, MA and a graduate of Hampshire College, the Longy School of Music of Bard College, and San Francisco Conservatory. A long-time resident of the San Francisco Bay Area, Ann Moss recently returned to Massachusetts with her husband, multi-instrumentalist Justin Ouellet. She currently serves on the Voice Faculty at Groton Hill Music Center and as Resident Vocal Instructor at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, while maintaining an active private teaching studio at home.
Marie-Elise Boyer is a French pianist currently completing her Doctoral of Musical Arts in Collaborative Piano at the New England Conservatory of Music. After finishing her piano studies with Roland Meillier in St-Etienne and with Jean-Marie Cottet at the CNR in Paris, where she was awarded a First Prize, she completed the accompaniment course at the CNR in Lyon with Marie-Cécile Milan and was awarded a First prize with Distinction in both Accompaniment and Composition. She completed a Master in Accompaniment and as a Repetiteur at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, earning both Master of Music and Master of Performance with distinction. She further developed her piano skills with Martin Roscoe and participated in the Creative Voices class led by Sarah Walker, where she worked closely with singers and composers. At NEC, she has been fortunate to receive musical guidance and inspiration from artists such as Cameron Stowe, Jonathan Feldman, Kayo Iwama and Margo Garrett. Marie-Elise worked as a repetiteur for one year at the National Opera Studio in London, and for 9 years in German theaters such as Staatsoper Hamburg, Staatstheater Nürnberg and Theater Bremen. Her passion for Art Song led her to reach the Final of both Nadia et Lili Boulanger competition in Paris with Eva Ganizate in 2009 and Concours International de Mélodie Française in Toulouse with Sophie Boyer in 2013. She won First Prize in the 2018 Elsa Respighi competition in Verona, Italy with Canadian Soprano Leah Gordon; they both reached the Final in the 2019 Brahms competition in Pörtschach, Austria. Marie-Elise regularly performs as half of the duo Les Boyer Sisters with her sister, mezzo-soprano Sophie Boyer.
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