{"id":7112,"date":"2024-04-16T00:13:41","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T04:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/?page_id=7112"},"modified":"2024-04-16T00:21:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T04:21:35","slug":"salonline-2024-04-14-elizabeth-marie-thomas-olga-volkova","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/?page_id=7112","title":{"rendered":"Salonline 2024-04-14 Elizabeth Marie Thomas &amp; Olga Volkova"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"block-0d20b080-1e86-4a9e-ad57-bf72bedd3e76\"><a class=\"maxbutton-3 maxbutton maxbutton-button-3-text\" title=\"Click Here to donate (100% Matched!)\" href=\"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/?page_id=5466\"><span class='mb-text'>DONATE!<\/span><\/a> <a class=\"maxbutton-3 maxbutton maxbutton-button-3-text\" title=\"Watch Salonline\" href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/live\/Ms-O6t3eMBs?feature=share\"><span class='mb-text'>Watch Salonline<\/span><\/a> <a class=\"maxbutton-3 maxbutton maxbutton-button-3-text\" title=\"Click to see Older Salonlines\" href=\"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/?page_id=189\"><span class='mb-text'>Previous Salonlines<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"block-6fa7d109-68e4-4b45-bedc-08265388e945\">Sunday, April 14, 2024<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"block-f116f455-d865-44ce-b6ca-415cc1089e4f\">&#8212; a &#8220;hybrid&#8221; event &#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"block-9b528778-b51a-4296-b27f-f250b1a7e093\" style=\"font-size:48px\"><strong>Elizabeth Marie Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"block-56ce652a-fa54-42ca-ada8-1bd81374849d\"><strong>soprano<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"block-1a379269-de72-4596-a9ac-d6a8921d36b3\" style=\"font-size:48px\"><strong>Olga Volkova<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"block-5ece9011-7f61-4ed4-9e9b-bb705a7f22d1\"><strong>piano<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-2df18fd9f683e982f3f6687b73d64cf2 wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"block-5a37c509-e6d3-42c5-ad38-f848099c2eee\" style=\"color:#282e75\"><strong>A Concert of <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color has-link-color has-large-font-size wp-elements-8ca99b82a0ef2bfbcc34bba802c9fd41 wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"block-5a37c509-e6d3-42c5-ad38-f848099c2eee\" style=\"color:#282e75\"><strong>Musical Theatre <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0ac3a01033066c7bb68c69f296131c69 wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"block-5a37c509-e6d3-42c5-ad38-f848099c2eee\" style=\"color:#282e75\"><strong>and <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color has-link-color has-large-font-size wp-elements-ca8666e8ec2861f8c2bdcb76dfc58884 wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"block-5a37c509-e6d3-42c5-ad38-f848099c2eee\" style=\"color:#282e75\"><strong>Classical Selections<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Elizabeth-Marie-Thomas-Olga-Volkova.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Elizabeth-Marie-Thomas-Olga-Volkova.gif\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is Elizabeth-Marie-Thomas-Olga-Volkova.gif\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"block-a0fe75c8-06ac-4866-89eb-b21e59a74f08\">Elizabeth and Olga present a recital of mostly traditional opera and musical theatre favorites, with a few art songs by the likes of Strauss, Debussy and Barber sprinkled in!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"block-78e4570a-06f9-42f4-a9a5-dba63cbaf35a\"><strong>Biographies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"block-3952ef40-ded6-4dd0-96b7-e0380e9631ae\">Soprano Elizabeth Marie Thomas is passionate about a wide variety of music, from opera to musical theatre to jazz and pop. Some of her favorite roles include Adele in Strauss&#8217; Die Fledermaus, the title role in Gilbert and Sullivan&#8217;s Princess Ida, Susanna in Mozart&#8217;s Le Nozze di Figaro, and Johanna and the Beggar Woman in Sondheim\u2019s Sweeney Todd. She holds a bachelor\u2019s in music from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a master\u2019s in music from Appalachian State University. She studied opera in Graz and Salzburg, Austria, and has sung throughout Germany and Austria. She is a frequent performer at various churches, retirement communities and other venues in the DC, MD and VA areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"block-5396505d-d6f5-4a8b-bf51-27395fced3bb\">Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Olga Volkova graduated with honors from the Herzen University Institute of Music (St. Petersburg, Russia), where she studied solo piano with Tatiana Zagorovskaya, collaborative piano with Vladimir Gourevich and chamber ensemble with Pavel Eliashevich. Later she continued her studies at Mannes School of Music in New York City (The New School), where she completed her Master\u2019s degree in piano performance under Eteri Andjaparidze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"block-b47ca706-a569-4d79-9f3d-00ba4176c40e\">Olga Volkova has extensively performed in Russia, Europe and the USA, as soloist and collaborative pianist, and has won several prestigious international piano competitions throughout her career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" id=\"block-e450d704-f7da-4406-b4da-29d60896f653\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"block-f3e47292-79af-478a-b660-6a9c249fa1b1\">If you&#8217;d like to receive Emerson Avenue Salon invitations, you can add yourself to the invitation list <a href=\"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/?page_id=1212\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, April 14, 2024 &#8212; a &#8220;hybrid&#8221; event &#8212; Elizabeth Marie Thomas soprano Olga Volkova piano A Concert of Musical Theatre and Classical Selections Elizabeth and Olga present a recital of mostly traditional opera and musical theatre favorites, with a few art songs by the likes of Strauss, Debussy and Barber sprinkled in! 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