Tuesday Musical welcomes pianist and composer Gregg Kallor back to Akron following an outstanding FUZE! concert in 2014. This concert will feature many of Gregg's compositions and other more familiar works as he collaborates with mezzo soprano Adriana Zabala.

Kallor is a composer and pianist whose music fuses the classical and jazz traditions he loves into a new, deeply personal language. Kallor received an Aaron Copland Award for composition in 2011; he wrote a concerto for piano and orchestra during his residency at the home of the late eminent American composer. Kallor is also the inaugural Composer-In-Residence at SubCulture in New York City, a two-year residency which will feature world premieres of three new pieces and collaborations with cellist Joshua Roman, violinist Miranda Cuckson, mezzo-soprano Adriana Zabala, and baritone Matthew Worth.

Adriana Zabala enjoys a vibrant career that spans performance and recording of new opera, song, and concert works, as well as beloved operatic roles, traditional concert and oratorio works, German Lieder, French Mélodie, and American and Spanish song.

In addition to an extensive repertoire of traditional works, Ms. Zabala is a champion of new music. For her recording with Gregg Kallor, Exhilaration: Dickinson and Yeats Songs, Opera News Online says, "Kallor has found a wonderful exponent in Adriana Zabala, a gifted, agile mezzo-soprano. Kallor knows how to make these words sing, and Zabala gives perfect flight to them. Singing with uncommon clarity and natural beauty, she seems to be deep inside both the poems and Kallor's musical realizations."