VOCAL ARTISTRY ART SONG FESTIVAL
English & American Art Song
University of New Mexico | October 24-26, 2025


The Temptation of Song
Mezzo Soprano Jacqueline Zander-Wall and Pianist James Harder invite you to join in a celebration of fourteen years of the VAASF in a recital of enticing works by Rossini, Colibran, Viardot, Mahler, Schubert, Harbison and Villa Lobos. Come and enjoy a tasting of Song.
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Recital credits include the Stuttgart Hugo Wolf Gesellschaft, the Hamburg Mahler Verein, the Villa Lobos Ensemble, the Goethe Institute in Moscow and Boston, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Jacqueline Zander-Wall has performed Chamber Music with the New York Skaneateles Music Festival, the Hamburg Opera, Taos Chamber Music Festival, Montage Music Society, the Aspen Music Festival, the Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival in Vermont and throughout Germany. A proponent of new music Ms. Zander-Wall has sung with L’art pour l’art in Frankfurt, Chaosmas in Moscow and Boston, and Hamburgs improvisatory Scala Theater.

After a dual career as a collaborative pianist and psychotherapist in New York City, James Harder relocated to Albuquerque in 2021. He joined the UNM Department of Music Faculty as a Part-Time Vocal Coach in fall 2022. An alumnus of California State University Fresno and Hunter College School of Social Work of The City University of New York, Mr.Harder is thrilled to be working with young artists at a collegiate level.
Festival Schedule
The 2025 Vocal Artistry Art Song Festival of New Mexico will be held at the University of New Mexico from October 24th to 26th. Specific event order and times have yet to be determined.