New Voices Festival: Confessions II
Friday, May 6, 2022 7:30PM
Digital Release: Monday, May 23, 2022
VENUE CHANGE: Dweck Auditorium, 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11238
This program of vocal chamber music includes the world premiere of Lembit Beecher’s After the Fires, based on interviews with his own family and their community. Also on the program, David Ludwig and Ray Owen’s epic cycle about North Carolina’s Bleeding Pines and works for strings and voice by Marcos Balter, Amy Beth Kirsten, Jessica Meyer, Jessie Montgomery and Jane Sheldon.
Marcos Balter: Ear Skin and Bone Riddles
Lembit Beecher: After the Fires (World Premiere)
Amy Beth Kirsten: Yes I said Yes I will Yes
David Ludwig: Songs of the Bleeding Pines/Songs of the Spirit of Turpentine*
Jessica Meyer: The Last Rose of Summer
Jessie Montgomery: Loisaida, I Love You
Jane Sheldon: Kakagi
Kristina Bachrach, Sarah Brailey, Charlotte Mundy, Soprano
Annie Rosen, mezzo soprano
Michael Kelly, baritone
Catherine Gregory, flute
Moran Katz, clarinet
Stanichka Dimitrova, violin
Sofia Nowik, cello
Michael Brofman, piano
*Libretto by Ray Owen
New Voices Festival: Confessions III
Friday, June 3, 2022 7:30PM
Digital Release: Monday, June 20, 2022
An evening-length “cornucopia of song” from Daron Hagen, one of today’s most important American composers. A work at once epic and intimate- a landmark in 21st-century American art song.
New Voices Festival: Confessions I
Friday, April 1, 2022 7:30PM
Digital Release: Monday, April 18
Eve Beglarian’s Closer to the Heart explores “a certain kind of female unhappiness” through the poetry of Anne Sexton, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, and excerpts from her own mother’s journals. Reinaldo Moya’s new work on poetry by Ruben Dario explores our darkest emotions. Seering works by some of today’s best young composers round out this program.