Beryl Garver, piano

Saturday, March 28, 2026 at 3:00 p.m.
Goodson Chapel – Recital Hall
Shenandoah Conservatory

Io già t’amai

George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)

Dichterliebe, op. 48

I. Im wunderschönen Monat Mai
II. Aus meinen Tränen sprießen
III. Die Rose, die Lilie, die Taube, die Sonne
IV. Wenn ich in deine Augen seh
V. Ich will meine Seele tauchen

Robert Schumann (1810–1856)

Dein Angesicht so lieb und schön

Robert Schumann (1810–1856)

Songs of Travel

Let Beauty Awake
Youth and Love
In Dreams
The Infinite Shining Heavens

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958)

- intermission -

Un’aura amorosa

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)

Chanson triste

L’invitation au voyage

Extase

Henri Duparc (1848–1933)

La ricordanza

Vincenzo Bellini (1801–1835)

Amor ti vieta

Umberto Giordano (1867–1948)

Estrellita

Manuel M. Ponce (1882–1948)

Algún día

Jaime León (1921–1989)

The theme of my recital, Travel with the Heart, traces a journey through love, emotion and reflection. Each set explores how music expresses different stages and perspectives of the heart.

The program begins with Handel’s “Io già t’amai,” a Baroque aria that blends elegance with heartfelt sincerity. It continues with selections from Schumann’s Dichterliebe, op. 48, where poetry and melody portray love’s progression from joy to quiet sorrow.

The English set, Vaughan Williams’ Songs of Travel, follows a wanderer who discovers that the search for beauty mirrors the journey of the heart.

After intermission, Mozart’s “Un’aura amorosa” offers calm and tenderness before turning to the expressive colors of Duparc’s French songs, which depict love and longing through lush harmonies.

The Italian set features Bellini’s “La ricordanza” and Giordano’s “Amor ti vieta,” two contrasting views of love, one nostalgic and the other passionate. The recital closes with the Spanish set, where León’s “Algún día” and Ponce’s “Estrellita” bring warmth and sentimental reflection to the program’s end.

Together, these works show how music carries the listener through the many emotional landscapes of the heart.

Jose Noe Barrera-Garcia is from Clinton, Maryland, and he is a Salvadoran-American tenor in his fourth year of his bachelor’s degree in vocal performance at Shenandoah Conservatory in Winchester, Virginia. He studies with Dr. Fotina Naumenko. He recently attended Opera Lucca in Lucca, Italy, located in Tuscany, this past summer 2025. He performed  in opera scenes from Mozart’s La finta giardiniera and Le nozze di Figaro in the 2025 summer season and participated in an arias concert. He has been a part of five operas at Shenandoah, including Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi and Moscow, Cheryomushki by Dmitri Shostakovich. Barrera-Garcia's repertoire has a focus on arias, classical arts songs and Spanish arts songs. He also specializes in Spanish diction and enjoys discovering and performing lesser-known art songs and arias.In addition to singing, he enjoys trying new foods, photographing nature and everyday life, working out and exploring fashion.

Jose Barrera-Garcia is from the studio of Fotina Naumenko. This recital is presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a Bachelor of Music in Performance (Voice).

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