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Released on October 31, 2025

The Lark Sings High in the Cornfield

feat. Cyndia Sieden & Steven Blier | Listen

Thomas Linley’s “The Lark Sings High in the Cornfield” is an irresistibly charming song from Mozart’s era. Metropolitan Opera soprano Cyndia Sieden combines sweetness and virtuosity, meeting all the music’s demands—and adding a few flourishes of her own. Steven Blier turns his Steinway into a sparkling chamber orchestra in this rendition of an eighteenth-century delight.

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mainstage opener

Single tickets and Subscriptions still available

South America, North America: A Love Story

Thu, Nov 20, 2025 | Merkin Hall | Tickets

Created for baritone Joseph Parrish, a Baltimore native, and Bolivian soprano Shelén Hughes, partners on- and offstage, this program will explore milongas, tangos, blues and art songs that span the two continents. With NYFOS’s own Steven Blier as pianist and host, and pianist Amir Farid.

Complimentary post-concert reception with the artists.
Student tickets ($10) available.

NEXT UP: NYFOS Next

The “invaluable” series for new song

The Many Worlds Interpretation

Sun, Nov 16, 2025 | 150 W 17th St | Tickets $25

The Many Worlds Interpretation takes playful aim at tellings and retellings of our self-narratives. Kimberly Osberg’s wistful You, Us, Me mourns an “us” that never had room for “me.” Sarah Gibson’s Breath’d back again, written for tenor Benjamin Brecher, remixes poems of Thomas Moore to unmoor stories of our own anguish in “endless space.” Michael Stephen Brown’s Love’s Lives Lost tells of an unexpected reunion between former lovers and their contrasting interpretations of their shared past. The composer joins the work’s dedicatee, soprano Susanna Phillips, to give this New York premiere. Additional songs performed by baritone Tim McDevitt with Nathaniel LaNasa at the piano.

Complimentary refreshments included. Student tickets ($10) available. more info.

Join Us for The 2025-26 Season

Mainstage, NYFOS Next, Emerging Artist residencies and more!

Subscriptions Still Available for to the Merkin Hall Series

Our 38th season reunites me with some beloved colleagues—a trio of powerhouse baritones, a pair of charismatic sopranos, and of course that force of nature known as Bénédicte Jourdois, who will partner with me at many of the Mainstage programs,” The season we’ve created is a series of duet concerts that place American song in consecutive dialogue with music from France, Germany, and South America. (There are, blessedly, no travel bans on song.) To expand our horizon, we’ll also offer our Caramoor program—a dazzling international collection of ocean voyages and river trips, filled with adventure and sensuality. I’m very eager to share the music with you!

— Steven Blier on NYFOS’s 2025-26 Season

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NEW ALBUM

Now available as a physical CD, digital download, or wherever you stream music!

Schubert / Beatles | Order your copy today!

featuring baritone Theo Hoffman, pianists Steven Blier and Kunal Lahiry, and special guests soprano Julia Bullock and tenor Andrew Owens. Listen now

First introduced to NYFOS audiences in NYC eight years ago as a thrilling live concert, this program pairs Schubert songs with Beatles songs on similar themes, and, in Blier’s words, “Lo and behold, the ‘Holy of Holies’ sits comfortably next to the ‘Oldie of Oldies’.” Yesterday and Im Frühling are hymns to lost love, while Der Wanderer an den Mond and She’s Leaving Home tell contrasting stories of young people cast adrift into the world. Learn more

This album was funded in part by a generous gift from Eileen Caulfield Schwab, in recognition of the featured Terrance W. Schwab Vocal Rising Stars program alumni: Julia Bullock, Theo Hoffman, & Andrew Owens.

LIVE CONCERT ALBUM

A NYFOS Records project

My Brother’s Keeper

Tue, Nov 19, 2024 | Merkin Hall | Donate to the album

Help us bring this extraordinary evening to the world with a gift toward NYFOS Records today in support of our ensemble’s live concert recording!

A story of brotherly love and community among Black men in America told through art song, soul, gospel, and opera, My Brother’s Keeper features a stellar team of Black American male singers, lead by baritone Will Liverman, including tenor Joshua Blue, bass-baritone Joseph Parrish, bass-baritone Alan Williams, baritone Jorell Williams, and tenor Chaz’men Williams-Ali, alongside NYFOS’s own Steven Blier. Conceived and co-artistic directed by long-time NYFOS artist Justin Austin. more info.

From our CatAlogue

Released on March 8, 2024

NYFOS Records: The Singles, Vol. 1

feat. highlights from the NYFOS archives | Order Today

NYFOS has gathered together a collection of treasured performances on this wide-ranging album. Spanning over 20 years of memorable moments and voices, it features performances by stars of the opera and concert world – Michael Spyres, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Kate Lindsey, Sasha Cooke, Bernarda Fink, Justin Austin, Kurt Ollmann, Brett Polegato, and Lucia Bradford – alongside singing actors like Darius de Haas, Jennifer Aylmer, Hal Cazalet, Dana Hanchard, and James Martin.