FARMINGTON – Melissa Carlsen, pianist, and Kate Reid, mezzo-soprano, will give a recital at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 12, in Nordica Auditorium at the University of Maine at Farmington.

Both are well known to Farmington area music lovers. Carlsen is in her fourth year at Oberlin’s Conservatory of Music and College of Arts and Sciences, working toward degrees in both piano performance and pure mathematics. She has won numerous awards and prizes, including two first prizes from the Maine Pine Tree Music Competition. In high school, she performed with the University of Maine at Farmington Orchestra and presented a senior recital at three locations statewide.

Reid has been a familiar performer in the Farmington area over the past few years. Recent performances include Villa Lobos’ “Bachianas Brasilieras No. 5,” sung with the University of Maine at Farmington Orchestra, as well as several concerts with the Arts Institute of Western Maine.

Reid took first place in the National Association of Teachers of Singing Maine Song Festival (2002), and was awarded the Bay Chamber Concerts’ Norman and Mary Louise Meyer Vocal Prize (2002). A long-term student of Jane Parker of Farmington, Reid studies music at UMF and voice with Joshua Hecht in Manhattan.

The program will begin with a set of romantic, enchanting songs by Reynaldo Hahn, fine examples of belle epoque salon music. Then Reid will sing a set of German lieder by Schubert and volkslieder by Brahms, including “Die Forelle,” a mock-tragic ballad involving a deceitful fisherman who tricks a trout into being caught, and “Der Tod und das Madchen,” in which a young maiden is forced to confront the terrors of death. Reid will also sing from the “Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson.” Copland’s longest work for solo voice. In closing, she will sing “Song to the Moon” from Dvorak’s “Rusalka,” in which a water nymph invokes the moon to tell her love that she is thinking of him. Besides accompanying Reid, Carlsen will also do works for solo piano by Schumann, Barber, and her father, Phil Carlsen.

There will be a charge of $5 for adults, $4 for seniors at this concert, which is being sponsored by the Arts Institute of Western Maine. For more information, please phone 645-2157.