Aldridge / Asel / Spillman - Love Songs - Music CD

Contemporary composer Robert Livingston Aldridge composed this set of 15 songs set to love poems in 2004. These are touching, moving works. Mezzo-soprano, Nicole Asel, serves as an Assistant Professor of Voice at Sam Houston State University. She holds a D.M.A. in Voice Performance and Pedagogy from The University of Colorado at Boulder, an M.M. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and a B.M. from Ithaca College. A finalist in the 2010 Rocky Mountain Regional Metropolitan Opera Council Auditions, she is a devoted operatic performer and recitalist. Robert Spillman, Professor Emeritus, was Chair of the piano faculty and Music Director of the Opera Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He studied at the Eastman School of Music, receiving a BM degree and Performers Certificate in piano and a MA degree in music theory.