2015 Houston Grand Opera 'Informance'

The Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts will host a free “Informance” concert on Thursday, December 7 featuring members of the Houston Grand Opera Studio's Artist-in Residence program. Soprano Megan Samarin and pianist Kirill Kuzumin will perform beautiful opera pieces and field questions on what it takes to perfect their craft. The concert will take place in the Main Gallery of the museum. 

When

Monday December 7, 2015
Main Gallery
Performance starts at 7:30pm
Please arrive by 7:15pm to ensure priority parking and seating

Get Tickets

Tickets are general admission only.
​Seating is limited. Only 2 tickets per order. Reserve your spot by clicking this link to our EventBrite page to claim your ticket or call the museum directly at 281-376-6322.

The Performers

Megan Samarin
mezzo-soprano

Megan Samarin, a second-year artist with the HGO Studio, was a finalist in HGO’s 2014 Eleanor McCollum Competition Concert of Arias and is an alumna of HGO’s Young Artists Vocal Academy. Last season at HGO, she sang Johanna in Sweeney Todd and Second Lady in The Magic Flute, and this September she performed Lady Columbia in HGOco’s world premiere 
of Gregory Spears and Royce Vavrek’s O Columbia. She has performed Marzia in Vivaldi’s Cato in Utica at Glimmerglass Opera; La Marchande in Les mamelles de Tirésias as a Wolf Trap Opera Studio Artist; Madame Larina in Eugene Onegin, Cherubino in John Davies’s The Three Little Pigs, Cis in Albert Herring, Third Graduate in Street Scene, and Ethel in 42nd Street with the Seagle Music Colony Young Artist Program; Soeur Mathilde in Dialogues of the Carmelites at the Brevard Music Center Janiec Opera Company; Hansel in Hansel and Gretel with the New York Lyric Opera Theater; and Flower Girl in
The Marriage of Figaro with Opera on the Avalon. She recently sang Olga in Eugene Onegin at HGO, and later this season she will sing Third Wood Nymph in Rusalka and Lady Meresvale/Mistress Revels in the world premiere of Carlisle Floyd’s Prince of Players.

Kirill Kuzmin
Mezzo-Soprano

​Kirill Kuzmin was born in Moscow and began his piano training at the age of four. He studied at the State Musical College in Moscow and then at the Moscow State Conservatory. After graduation, he entered the Young Artists Program of the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia, and then worked for that company as a pianist and coach on numerous productions. In 2014 and 2015, he served as an apprentice coach with San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program. Most recently, he was a collaborative piano student at the University of Michigan, where he studied 
with Martin Katz. He has appeared in recital in many of the world’s most prestigious concert halls, including the Bolshoi Theatre Beethoven Hall and Carnegie Hall, where he collaborated on Marilyn Horne’s art song initiative, The Song Continues. So far this season at HGO, he coached singers in Eugene Onegin as well as acted as Russian diction coach for the production. He will continue to coach this season on the productions of The Little Prince, The Marriage of Figaro, and Siegfried.