Ruixi Hu is a student of Jayne West.
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SECOND STAGE: Ruixi Hu, soprano | playing, playing as… | Graduating Student Project
Monday, May 11, 2026 | 11:00 am 12:00 pm
Second Stage Series
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program notes
This recital revolves around the idea of playing, both as amusement and as transformation.
It explores how people construct, disguise, and rediscover themselves through the act of performance.
To “play” is to pretend, but also to reveal, to shift between sincerity and irony, truth and imagination.
Through humor, imitation, and emotional masks, the characters in these songs navigate the spaces between innocence and awareness, control and surrender.
Each scene becomes a small theater of self sometimes playful, and sometimes painful where identity itself is fluid.
In the end, playing as is not simply acting. It is the process of becoming an experiment in empathy, freedom, and the art of being human.
artist bio
Ruixi Hu is a soprano currently pursuing graduate studies at the Longy School of Music of Bard College, where she studies with Jayne West.
Her artistic work centers on the relationship between music, language, and expression, with a particular focus on diction and text-driven repertoire.
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