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A Kidney For Kara! Benefit Recital
August 6, 2016
Maggie Finnegan: maggiefinnegan@gmail.com/ [831] 238-7718

A Kidney for Kara! Benefit Recital

Where:

The Winchester Unitarian Society

478 Main Street, Winchester, MA 01890

When:

6pm, Saturday September 10th, 2016

What:

An evening of opera, cabaret, musical theater and art song performed by

soprano Maggie Finnegan and pianist John Kramer. Selections will include
pieces by Gershwin, Sondheim, Mancini, Faur, Debussy, Tchaikovsky, Verdi,
Britten, Copland, Juliana Hall and William Bolcom.
Kara Yimoyines, a Winchester resident and mother of three is in need of
a kidney. Diagnosed at age 16 with lupus, her kidney function is
currently at 11% and she is facing dialysis, which she had hoped to
avoid. Having exhausted her initial circle of potential donors, she is now
reaching out to the community for help. This event will serve to educate
others about lupus and kidney disease as well as raise money to help her
future donor pay for expenses like travel, housing and loss of income,
which are not covered by medical insurance.
Donations will be accepted through this YouCaring page:
https://www.youcaring.com/kara-yimoyines-608492

Kara with Hudson (10), Vivian (8) and Beckett (8)

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Hailed for her focused soprano and crystal tone,' local soprano Maggie Finnegan is a versatile singer, performing
repertoire spanning from medieval to contemporary. Specializing in new opera, she created the role of
Arrangiarsia in the world premier of Dominick DiOrio's The Little Blue One with Juventas New Music
Ensemble, for which she was praised as 'the opera's most captivating musical presence.' She made her
professional musical theater debut in The Sound of Music with Paper Mill Playhouse and she joined the
Metropolitan Opera Guild's School Touring Program of The Magic Flute, bringing opera to over 2,000
children throughout the New York metro area. Her performances this season include premieres with The
American Chamber Opera Company (as Lisa in Lisa's Room: A Dream Opera),Vital Opera (in Joshua
Groffman's Unfinished,) and the Center for Contemporary Opera in Louis Andriessen's Odysseus' Women.
Maggie made her Kennedy Center debut this spring as the winner of the Washington International Competition for Voice.
www.maggiefinnegansoprano.com
John Kramer is a composer, conductor and pianist based in Boston, MA. He has performed an has his music performed in
and around Boston, New England, throughout the United States and France. His CD of solo piano music, Orange
Earth/Blue Ether, was released in 2008, and a recording of his Meditations can be expected this coming fall. His most
recent composition A Dream of Hope, a five movement cantata, was commissioned by the Winchester Unitarian Society, on
the occasion of their 150th anniversary, and was premiered on Sunday, November 22nd, 2015. Mr. Kramer is Assistant
Professor of Harmony at Berklee College of Music and is the Music Director at the Winchester Unitarian Society. He also
teachers piano privately at the Winchester Community Music School.