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A Lunchtime Concert of Nordic Music and Opera Arias

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Start date: 16 Jun 2011 08:30 AM
End date: 16 Jun 2011 09:30 AM
Street / Location: Yerba Buena Gardens, Mission & Third Street
City / town: San Francisco
Country: California, USA
Organizer: The International Music Festival at Yerba Buena Gardens and the Consulate General of Sweden
Email: sf@consulateofsweden.org
Phone: 415.543.1718
Homepage: http://www.ybgf.org/

Lunchtime concert with the 2011 Jenny Lind scholarship recipient; Soprano Rebecca Rasmussen and 2011 Royal Academy of Museum scholarship recipient; Pianist Daniel Hormazábal Cortés.

Winners of the prestigious 2011 Jenny Lind Scholarship and Swedish Royal Academy of Music Scholarship, awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music and the People's Parks and Community Centers in Stockholm. It includes a tour of the United States in the footsteps of Jenny Lind, the famous Swedish Nightingale, who toured America in 1850-1851 at the invitation of impresario and circus manager P.T. Barnum and, on arrival in New York, was greeted by 30,000 people on the quay.

Presented by The International Music Festival at Yerba Buena Gardens and the Consulate General of Sweden.

The outdoor concert is free and open to the public.