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Tuesday, May 4 and Thursday, May 6
The Newest Deal
An all-new NYFOS program of American works to include the premiere of Beautiful Ohio, a song cycle by 2009 Pulitzer Prize finalist Harold Meltzer, composed specifically for the young American tenor Paul Appleby. Also featured, Gabriel Kahane’s Craigslistlieder, along with songs by Kenji Bunch, Jennifer Higdon, Gabriela Frank, Derek Bermel and others. Joining Mr. Appleby will be soprano Anne-Carolyn Bird, baritone Andrew Garland, and pianists Steven Blier and Michael Barrett.
All performances at 8:00 p.m. Programs and artists subject to change.
Past NYFOS Performances
Tuesday, October 13th
Where We Come From
Songs of home, offered by members of NYFOS's newly created Artist Council, including Amy Burton, Sari Gruber, Dina Kuznetsova, Sasha Cooke, Kate Lindsey, Paul Appleby, William Sharp and James Martin. We'll make musical journeys to their respective birthplaces, from Indiana and Mississippi to Canada, Germany and Russia, explore their musical backgrounds, from opera and art song to garage bands and the blues, and celebrate the artistic home they have found in New York Festival of Song. NYFOS Artistic Directors and pianists Steven Blier and Michael Barrett accompany them.
Tuesday, November 17 and Thursday, November 19
Great American Songwriting Teams
A program of famous and rarely-heard songs in honor of America's classic songwriting collaborators: the Gershwin brothers, Dietz & Schwartz, Rodgers & Hart, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Lerner & Loewe, Bock & Harnick, Kander & Ebb, Leiber & Stoller, Bolcom & Weinstein and others. Performers include New York stage and NYFOS favorites Sylvia McNair, Mary Testa and Jason Graae with Steven Blier at the piano.
Tuesday, February 16 and Thursday, February 18
The Voluptuous Muse
The lush harmonies and exotic themes of songs by late-Romantic masters Nikolai Medtner, Karol Szymanowski, Erich Korngold and Richard Strauss are charged with seductive beauty and expressive power. These exquisitely-crafted artifacts of a unique historic moment—the era between the turn of the 20th century and the First World War—evoke a world of restless change that transformed the lives and aesthetics of their creators. The exciting Russian-American soprano Dina Kuznetsova and two rising stars of the Met Opera stage, mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey and tenor Joseph Kaiser, bring virtuosity and commitment to this dazzling repertoire. Steven Blier and Michael Barrett join them at the piano.
Tuesday, March 16
The Sweetest Path
The first great flowering of French art song is celebrated in a program of works by Gounod, Fauré, Bizet, and Chabrier, featuring Charlotte Dobbs, Rebecca Jo Loeb, Matthew Peña and John Brancy, accompanied by NYFOS directors Steven Blier and Michael Barrett. Two performances of The Sweetest Path (on March 13 at Caramoor, and on March 16 at Merkin Concert Hall) culminate the second annual Caramoor Vocal Rising Stars Program, a week-long residency sponsored and hosted by Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, and led this year, as last year, by Messrs. Blier and Barrett. This season's installment of the Caramoor Vocal Rising Stars Program is underwritten, in part, by The Terrance W. Schwab Fund for Young Vocal Artists.