Minnesota-based mezzo-soprano Clara Osowski presents her debut solo recording with pianist Timothy Lovelace, an active recitalist who heads the Collaborative Piano program at the University of Minnesota. Regularly heard as soloist with Music of the Baroque, Osowski is an internationally recognized interpreter of song literature. She received the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society Prize at the 2019 Wigmore Hall International Song Competition for the best performance of English song by a British composer. In 2017, she became the first American prize winner at Thomas Quasthoff’s International Das Lied Competition in Heidelberg, Germany, earning Second Prize and the Richard Tauber Prize for her interpretation of Schubert. Osowski and Lovelace’s Schubert album features 19 songs on themes of nature: lakes, rushing streams, the rising moon, stars, flowers, birdsong.