{"id":7993,"date":"2025-01-20T14:10:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T19:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/?page_id=7993"},"modified":"2025-01-20T14:10:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T19:10:55","slug":"salonline-2025-01-19-elizabeth-marie-thomas-olga-volkova","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/?page_id=7993","title":{"rendered":"Salonline 2025-01-19 Elizabeth Marie Thomas &amp; Olga Volkova"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-dark-gray-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\"><a class=\"maxbutton-9 maxbutton maxbutton-button-5b\" title=\"Click to donate (100% Matched!)\" href=\"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/?page_id=5466\"><span class='mb-text'>DONATE!<\/span><\/a> <a class=\"maxbutton-8 maxbutton maxbutton-button-5a\" title=\"Click to Watch Salonline\" href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/live\/AugD7uWhk3k?feature=share\"><span class='mb-text'>Watch Salonline<\/span><\/a> <a class=\"maxbutton-8 maxbutton maxbutton-button-5a\" 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 has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-15f04c3fc4831371098770f86ffef14f\" style=\"color:#000000\">Sunday, January 19, 2025<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#f30000\">&#8212; a &#8220;hybrid&#8221; event &#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9f83b67ee01b9fd700c57bda979c3812 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#445291;font-size:42px\"><strong>Elizabeth Marie Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1e3752c11e0a4a4f26b0c864f3310bb7 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#445291;font-size:42px\">and <strong>Olga Volkova<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Soprano and<\/strong> <strong>piano<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-x-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>An Evening of <\/strong><strong>German, French and Spanish Art Songs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Elizabeth-Marie-Thomas-Olga-Volkova-Jan-2025-1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Elizabeth-Marie-Thomas-Olga-Volkova-Jan-2025-1.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7985\" style=\"width:655px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-6c79e88160100a7df87d87e4f26df6b0 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#4a1375\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Elizabeth and Olga will present a recital of German, French, and Spanish Art Songs, with works by Franz Schubert, Richard Strauss, Hugo Wolf, Claude Debussy, and Joaqu\u00edn Rodrigo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>BIOGRAPHY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-text-align-left has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Soprano <strong>Elizabeth Marie Thomas<\/strong> 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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, <strong>Olga Volkova<\/strong> 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. 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\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">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, January 19, 2025 &#8212; a &#8220;hybrid&#8221; event &#8212; Elizabeth Marie Thomas and Olga Volkova Soprano and piano An Evening of German, French and Spanish Art Songs Elizabeth and Olga will present a recital of German, French, and Spanish Art Songs, with works by Franz Schubert, Richard Strauss, Hugo Wolf, Claude Debussy, and Joaqu\u00edn Rodrigo. 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