The Mozart Club heard a concert by Mezzo Soprano Kimberly Prins Moeller, associate professor of voice at Houghton University, and award winning pianist Sharon Johnson, who holds the Horne – Blanchard Chair at Houghton College, during a recent meeting at the Marvin House.

Moeller made her Carnegie Hall debut as soloist in Mozart’s Requiem and Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy. Her stage credits include the roles of the witch in Into The Woods ,Prince Orlovsky in Die Fledermaus, Flora in La Traviata,. the Sorceress in Dido and Aeneas, Dinah in Trouble in Tahiti as well as numerous chamber concert appearances. An active soloist in concert and oratorio singer, Moeller’s concert performances include Handel’s Messiah with the American Chamber orchestra, Hayden’s Lord Nelson’s Mass, and Vivaldi’s Gloria and Magnificat. She is also a two-time semifinalist in the professional Art Song division of the American Prize Competition. Other appearances include the University of Arizona Chamber Music Showcase, the Saarburg International Chamber Music festival and performances withGranny nominated True Concord, voices and Orchestra.

Johnson has toured North America, Asia and Europe, including an audience at the Library of Congress, on public radio and in Minneapolis, Rochester and Chicago, the Baltimore Composer Forum, the Schubert Club Courtroom Concert series, and as primary keyboard assistant director of the Continental Singers and Orchestra. She has served as the invited pianist for master classes, and as one of the official pianists for the International Horn prize competition, the International tuba/euphonium and Reed Society conferences and the NATS competition in 2017 she was chosen as one of the four pairs to participate in the Fall Island Repertoire development Program with Stephanie Blythe and Alan Smith.

Johnson gave the world premiere of Julie Hall ‘s Peacock Pie for solo piano as well as Songs of Enchantment at the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis.

Johnson is one-half of the duo piano team Music by Two with pianist Nancy Davis.

She holds the BMN MM degrees in piano at UNC Greensboro.

The duo performed Songs of Enchantment, contemporary art songs, including a song by a Navajo composer.

A variety of songs by Alban Berg followed, including Reed Song, The Nightingale, Crowned With Dreams , with lyrics by Raineer Maria Rilke,Ode to Love,and Summer Days among others.

The program concluded with Songs of Enchantment composed by Juliana Hall, one of the country’s most able and prolific art song composers. The songs included Daybreak, The Spotted Flycatcher, Silly Sally, and A Song of Enchantment with lyrics by Walter de la Mare.

The next meeting of the Mozart Club will be at the Marvin House on Wednesday, May 13, at 11 a.m. for the annual meeting followed by a scholarship winners program at 11:30 a.m.