Young artist to perform at Pepperdine Univ.

Soprano Emily Albrink will perform as part of the 2008-09 Stotsenberg Recital Series at 2 p.m. Sun., Jan. 11 at Raitt Recital Hall, Pepperdine University, 24255 Pacific Coast Hwy., Malibu.

Albrink will sing Alban Berg's "Sieben fruehe Lieder," John Musto's "Penelope," Modest Mussorgsky's "The Nursery," and Pulitzer Prize winner John Harbison's setting of Walt Whitman's poetry titled "Vocalism," which was premiered at SongFest.

Albrink is in her first season with the Young Artist Program at Washington National Opera.

The recital is a joint presentation of Pepperdine University Center for the Arts and SongFest, an intensive training program for musicians held each summer at Pepperdine and led by Rosemary Hyler Ritter.

Tickets, priced at $25 for the public and $10 for fulltime Pepperdine students, are available by calling (310) 5064522 and through Ticketmaster at (213) 365-3500.

For more information, go to www.arts.pepperdine.edu.