Alla Voce Duo - part of our Emerging Artists series

Join us for our ongoing series of morning concerts and discover some great new talent from a selection of Scotland’s best young professional musicians.

The 2018/2019 Emerging Artist season gives audiences the opportunity to view the performances from the stunning Organ Gallery, on stage in the Usher Hall. Each concert is followed by an informal ‘Meet the Artist’ session with tea and coffee in the café bar afterwards. 

Alla Voce Duo | Classical mezzo-soprano and piano duo

American singer Sarah Pistorius (mezzo-soprano) and Hungarian musician Alina Horváth - Pianist were accepted into Live Music Now Scotland in 2017 and have since recorded several songs together. 

Although they have just begun performing together, they both have performed widely elsewhere as soloists. Sarah has performed extensively on the operatic stage. In June of 2017 she performed the role of Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro by Mozart with Opera in the Ozarks. In 2016 at DePauw University Sarah worked with composer Mark Adamo and played Jo March in his opera, Little Women. She has also performed the roles of Mrs. McLean in Susannah, Emma Jones in Street Scene, and Ramiro in La Finta Giardiniera. Sarah also enjoys choral singing. She currently performs with RCS Voices and the Glasgow Cathedral Choir as a deputy chorister. With the DePauw Chamber singers Sarah was able to tour in France, Mexico, and throughout the United States and worked with performers such as the King's Singers, Roomful of Teeth, and composers such as John Corigliano, Gabriel Lena Frank, and Christopher Theofanidis. Sarah received her Bachelors of Music from DePauw University in Indiana where she studied under Caroline Smith. She is currently pursuing her masters in vocal performance at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland studying with Wilma MacDougall. 

Alina is a classical pianist from Hungary and a master graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She is the recipient of the Philip Halstead Prize for Piano, winner of the ‘Music without borders’ International Contemporary Music Competition, including the Audience Award, the Governors' Recital Prize and the Mary D Adams Prize for Chamber Music. She has been a concerto soloist with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Symphony Orchestra and the Wind Orchestra, and a recitalist in many concert halls across the UK and Hungary. She has performed in various music festivals such as Budapest Spring Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Aberdeen International Youth Festival and Glasgow Piano Festival. Her love of music is not only dedicated to performances, but she is also an enthusiastic teacher at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (Juniors) and an accompanist at the National Youth Choir of Scotland.

11am-11.45am, £3 (on the door), FREE to students/schools.