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	UW-Green Bay group helps to inaugurate new concert hall in Florence Three UW-Green Bay voice students performed at the opening event for a new concert hall as part of the closing concert for "Vocalissimo: The Glory of the Human Voice," in March in Florence, Italy. From left are soprano Lisa Andre; tenor Jacob Kaltenberg; Zuzana Martinakova, vice rector of the Academy of Music in Banksa Bystrica, Slovakia; bass Christian Ott; Prof. Sarah Meredith; and Prof. Egon Krák, vice dean of the Advanced School of Music and Performing Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia, who was an international visiting scholar in Green Bay in 2003. Martinakova and Krák have been instrumental in several musical exchanges with UW-Green Bay in recent years. The new hall in Florence was built by the Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation, sponsor of the "Vocalissimo" event as part of a cross-cultural initiative. Meredith says the opening, attended by the public as well as special friends of the Foundation and members of its board was "quite an event."

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UW-Green Bay group helps to inaugurate new concert hall in Florence

Photo: Soprano Lisa Andre; tenor Jacob Kaltenberg; Zuzana Martinakova, vice rector of the Academy of Music in Banksa Bystrica, Slovakia; bass Christian Ott; Prof. Sarah Meredith; and Prof. Egon Krák, vice dean of the Advanced School of Music and Performing Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia.

Three UW-Green Bay voice students performed at the opening event for a new concert hall as part of the closing concert for "Vocalissimo: The Glory of the Human Voice," in March in Florence, Italy. From left are soprano Lisa Andre; tenor Jacob Kaltenberg; Zuzana Martinakova, vice rector of the Academy of Music in Banksa Bystrica, Slovakia; bass Christian Ott; Prof. Sarah Meredith; and Prof. Egon Krák, vice dean of the Advanced School of Music and Performing Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia, who was an international visiting scholar in Green Bay in 2003. Martinakova and Krák have been instrumental in several musical exchanges with UW-Green Bay in recent years. The new hall in Florence was built by the Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation, sponsor of the "Vocalissimo" event as part of a cross-cultural initiative. Meredith says the opening, attended by the public as well as special friends of the Foundation and members of its board was "quite an event."