Viola Recital: Dr. Daniel Doña, Senior Lecturer at Boston University
In Person
Dr. Daniel Doña is concluding his Saint Anselm College residency with a viola recital. Dr. Doña will present a program featuring repertoire written by Filipinx composers Nicanor Abelardo and 2025 Pulitzer Prize-winner Susie Ibarra.
Abelardo is best known for his kundiman, a genre that is best described as Filipino art song and that informed his musical output throughout his life. Susie Ibarra’s modern take on kundiman is highlighted in “Pasig River,” excerpted from Ibarra’s new song cycle, CHAN: Sonnets and Devotions in the Wilderness, commissioned and premiered in Berlin by Maerz Musik Berliner Festspiele and produced with her fellowship in music and sound with the DAAD Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst.
The program will also feature music by Elliot Carter, Rebecca Clarke, and Arnold Bax. Dr. Doña will be joined by Victor Cayres on piano and Saint Anselm violin and viola professor Heather Braun-Bakken on violin.