Becoming America
With Rose Wollman, Viola, and Hyeji Seo, Piano
Soprano Anne Slovin with CSU faculty-artists Rose Wollman, viola, and Hyeji Seo, piano, present a chamber music commemorating America’s 250th anniversary. The United States has seen itself as a place where anyone can make their dreams come true: ‘a nation of immigrants,’ ‘a melting pot,’ ‘the land of the free,’ and home of the ‘American dream.’ This program turns the microscope on ourselves, and looks at the American experience from the perspective of people for whom this rhetoric does not necessarily ring true. Featuring music by Francisco Cortes Alvarez, Rene Orth, Nailah Nombeko, Cris Derksen, and Tamuz Nissim, the performance is also the release concert for the album Becoming America.
Anne Slovin, soprano, is a versatile performing artist, researcher, and voice pedagogue who earned her doctorate from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music in 2025. Passionate about crossing genres and exploring new vocal repertoires and styles, in Summer 2026, she performed Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre’s 1715 cantata Sémélé with Chamber Music Athens, was soprano soloist in Arthur Honegger’s oratorio King David with Summer Singers of Atlanta, and workshoped the new opera Rosenbaum and Li, by Dina Pruzhansky and Hai-Ting Chinn, at Atlanta Opera. Slovin joined the voice faculty at the University of Georgia in 2025.
Slovin has distinguished herself as an interpreter of contemporary opera, having originated the title role in Shulamit Ran and Charles Kondek’s Anne Frank in 2023 and performed the role of Clara in the collegiate premiere of Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s It’s a Wonderful Life in 2017 at the IU Jacobs School of Music. In 2015, she created the role of Mica Segal in The Property, a klezmer opera with music by Wlad Marhulets and a libretto by Stephanie Fleischmann, at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Other favorite roles in opera and operetta include Hanna Glawari in The Merry Widow, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, and Micäela in La Tragédie de Carmen. She is an avid recitalist, having recently performed a recital of Jewish song as part of UGA’s Faculty Artist Series, as well as Tom Cipullo’s song cycle A Visit With Emily and the pianoforte songs and duets of 18th-century composer Harriett Abrams. Recent oratorio performances include soprano solos in Orff’s Carmina Burana, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem and Handel’s Messiah, and the role of Eve in Haydn’s Creation.