Distinguished pianist and baritone to perform

Grammy award-nominated pianist Reiko Uchida and Thomas Meglioranza, called “one of America’s finest young baritones,” by Newsday, perform at Bates at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 2, at the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

Tickets for this Olin Arts Alive concert cost $12, available at batestickets.com. A limited number of free tickets are available for students and seniors (65 and older) at bit.ly/oacbates. For more information, please contact 207-786-6163 or olinarts@bates.edu.

At Bates, Uchida and Meglioranza are slated to perform music by Schubert, Fauré and others.

The duo have combined their talents on two recordings of Schubert lieder, both on the CD Baby label: 2007’s Schubert Songs, which The Berkshire Review called “one of the finest recordings of Schubert lieder you will find”; and Winterreise, a 2013 recording that Audiophile Audition described as “one of the best modern recordings of Schubert’s genre-defining” song cycle.

In 2013, the pair released The Good Song, a collection of songs by French composers.

Uchida is recognized as one of today’s finest, most versatile pianists. First-prize winner of the Joanna Hodges Piano Competition and the Zinetti International Competition, she has performed solo and chamber music concerts worldwide. Uchida was one of the first pianists to be chosen for Chamber Music Society Two, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s program for outstanding emerging artists.

Uchida’s past recital partners have included Jennifer Koh, Anne Akiko Meyers, Sharon Robinson, Jaime Laredo and David Shifrin. She has collaborated with the Borromeo and Tokyo String Quartets, and is a member of the Laurel Trio and the Moebius Ensemble. She is an associate faculty member at Columbia University.

Meglioranza has won a variety of competitions including the 2005 Walter W. Naumburg Competition and the Franz Schubert/Modern Music Competition in Graz, Austria. This “immaculate and inventive recitalist” (The New Yorker) works in styles ranging from pre-baroque to opera and classical to contemporary.

Two of Meglioranza’s highly acclaimed performances were his evening of World War One-era songs at the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society and his portrayal of Prior Walter in the North American premiere of Peter Eötvös’ “Angels in America” with Opera Boston. The former was on the Philadelphia Inquirer’s “Top Ten Classical Music Events of 2009.”

Meglioranza is a visiting artist in voice at the Longy School of Music at Bard College.