Enjoy this performance from almost anywhere in the world viaLIVE@jacobs!Repertoire Works by Franz SchubertAn die Sonne, D.439 (1816) Die Geselligkeit (Lebenslust), D.609 (1818) Gebet, D.815 (1824) Der Tanz, D.826 (1828) Psalm 23, D.706 (1820) Ständchen, D.920 (1827) Miriam's Siegesgesang, D.942 (1828)About the ConductorBetsy Burleigh is Thomas R. Kasdorf Professor of Choral Conducting and professor of music at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she was chair of the Choral Conducting Department from 2013 to 2024. Burleigh served as music director of the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh from 2006 to 2015, leading performances of Brahms' Requiem, Bach's B Minor Mass, Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil, and Mozart's Great Mass in C Minor, and preparing the choir for performances with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO). As a guest conductor, Burleigh has led the PSO, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Akron Symphony, Canton Symphony, and Handel Society of Dartmouth College. She prepared the Tanglewood Festival Chorus for performances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Cincinnati May Festival Chorus for performances with the Cincinnati Pops. Burleigh served as assistant director of The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus for 11 years, during which time she prepared the chorus for all performances at the Blossom Festival and oversaw the chorus for Pierre Boulez's Deutsche Gramophone recording of Berlioz's Roméo et Juliette. Other positions have included directing the Providence Singers, Akron Symphony Chorus, Canton Symphony Chorus, and Mastersingers of Lexington. Acclaimed for her oratorio conducting, Burleigh's Chorus pro Musica performance of Haydn's Creation was praised as an "expansive, poetic reading" (The Boston Globe). Her rendition of Orff's Carmina Burana was called both "nuanced" and "hair-raising" (The Boston Musical Intelligencer). She won the 2000 Northern Ohio Live Achievement Award for best classical/opera performance for Ulmann's Der Kaiser von Atlantis and conducted The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus on an Emmy Award-winning concert for the 9/11 Red Cross Disaster Relief FunD.Burleigh previously held teaching positions at Tufts, Clark, Southeastern Massachusetts, and Cleveland State universities, Longy School of Music, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She earned a Bachelor of Music Education degree with distinction from Indiana University, a Master of Music in Choral Conducting degree with distinction from the New England Conservatory of Music, and a Doctor of Music in Choral Conducting from the Jacobs School. Lauded for "superb playing" and "poised, alert musicianship" (Boston Globe) and labeled "definitely a man to watch" (The Independent), American pianist Spencer Myer is among the most respected and sought-after artists on today's concert stage. Myer's orchestral, recital, and chamber music performances have been heard throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Africa, and Asia. He has been soloist with a host of ensembles, including The Cleveland Orchestra, Cape Town Philharmonic, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Mexico's Orquesta Filarmónica de Jalisco, and Beijing's China National Symphony Orchestra, collaborating with such conductors as Michael Christie, Arthur Fagen, Jahja Ling, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Thomas Wilkins, and Victor Yampolsky. Myer has played recitals in prominent venues, including New York City's Weill Recital Hall, Philadelphia's Kimmel Center, and London's Wigmore Hall. An in-demand chamber musician, he has collaborated with such notable artists as cellists Lynn Harrell and Ralph Kirshbaum, clarinetist David Shifrin, soprano Nicole Cabell, the Miami, Jupiter, and Pacifica string quartets, and the Dorian Wind Quintet. Myer's career was launched with three important prizes: first prize in the 2004 UNISA International Piano Competition, the 2006 Christel DeHaan Classical Fellowship from the American Pianists Association, and the gold medal from the 2008 New Orleans International Piano Competition. He is a laureate of the 2007 William Kapell, 2005 Cleveland, and 2005 Busoni International Piano Competitions. Myer enjoys an esteemed reputation as a vocal collaborator since winning the 2000 Marilyn Horne Foundation Competition. An enthusiastic educator, he has served as a guest faculty at the Oberlin and Baldwin-Wallace Conservatories of Music and was a member of the piano faculty of Boston's Longy School of Music of Bard College. Myer is associate professor of music (piano) at the IU Jacobs School of Music, where he received a 2024 Trustees Teaching Award. He has released CDs on the harmonia mundi usa and Steinway & Sons labels, including William Bolcom piano rags, Chopin's four impromptus, and four discs with cellist Brian Thornton of works by Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Schumann, and Rachmaninoff. Myer is a Steinway Artist. Meeting URL: