I’m very honored and very much looking forward to touring with pianist Dimitri Malignan as we bring his “Missing Voices” project to venues in a number of cities across the USA, starting with Temple Beth Rishon in Wyckoff, NJ. Dimitri and I will perform the music of persecuted Jewish composers whose voices were cut off and/or stifled by the Nazis, the Holocaust, and the events of World War II.
Details to be provided on Temple Beth Rishon’s website soon.

I’m performing with my friend and colleague Noah Palmer, bringing the “Of Dreams” recital program to the community at Trinity Church Lenox Massachusetts. Come and hear music of Clara Schumann, Franz Schubert, Kurt Weill, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Nathan Shields, Emily Cooley, Sally Wyche Coenen, Undine Smith Moore, and more! Details TBA.

I am so excited to sing this truly glorious and moving soprano solo along with my dear friend Barbara Pickhardt and her wonderful choral group Ars Choralis in Woodstock, NY. We perform at the historic Maverick Concert Hall.

Notes from the group: Ars Choralis presents Brahms’ masterful Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem) presented with Brahms’ arrangement for piano four hands. After major performances with orchestra of this work which had already captured the hearts of listeners and critics alike, the composer reverted to his original concept of the piece, written for piano-four hands in 1866, to perform his masterpiece in London in 1871. This version is not a simple reduction of the full score but a fresh, pianistic reworking of the entire piece which creates a new and unique listening experience.

More details and ticketing: https://arschoralis.org/brahms-requiem/

Location:
Maverick Concert Hall
120 Maverick Rd, Woodstock, NY 12498

I am so excited to sing this truly glorious and moving soprano solo along with my dear friend Barbara Pickhardt and her wonderful choral group Ars Choralis in Woodstock, NY. We perform at the historic Maverick Concert Hall.

Notes from the group: Ars Choralis presents Brahms’ masterful Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem) presented with Brahms’ arrangement for piano four hands. After major performances with orchestra of this work which had already captured the hearts of listeners and critics alike, the composer reverted to his original concept of the piece, written for piano-four hands in 1866, to perform his masterpiece in London in 1871. This version is not a simple reduction of the full score but a fresh, pianistic reworking of the entire piece which creates a new and unique listening experience.

More details and ticketing: https://arschoralis.org/brahms-requiem/

Location:
Maverick Concert Hall
120 Maverick Rd, Woodstock, NY 12498

My wonderful friend, Padre Spencer Reece, asked me to curate a recital on dreams and dreaming for his beautiful congregation in Rhode Island. I am so excited to share this music with them and with anyone else who wants to join us. Spencer is leading a whole month of study on dreams, and this is the kick-off event. I have the honor of performing with my other dear friend, the fabulous conductor/pianist Noah Palmer. We will be performing songs by Clara Schumann, Franz Schubert, Charles Ives, Gabriel Fauré, Claude Debussy, Henri Duparc, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Nathan Shields, Emily Cooley, Sally Wyche Coenen, amongst others!

The event is free and open to the public.

Location:
St. Paul’s Episocopal Church
55 Main Street
North Kingstown, RI 02852 (Wickford)

I’m looking forward to joining my friends Cecilia Sparacio (flutist) and David See (pianist) for an important fundraiser for The Church of the Good Shepherd. Come here us perform Mozart, Marx, Schubert, Bernstein, and more! Further details TBA.

Location:
The Church of the Good Shepherd
39 Granite Springs Rd, Granite Springs, NY 10527

I am looking forward to another collaboration with Libero Canto. This time, an octet of us will serenade you for an afternoon of Brahms duets, quartets, and even a few solos—including Brahms’ '“Liebeslieder-Walzer.” It is sure to be a beautiful afternoon.

Ticketing: Details TBA.

Location: Come hear us at the Salmagundi Club at 47 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY 10003

I get to go home to Iowa again! This time it is for a debut with the Quad City Symphony Orchestra for their performance of composer Jake Heggie’s and librettist Gene Scheer’s deeply moving chamber opera “Two Remain (Out of Darkness).”

The QCSO chamber ensemble will be under the insightful guidance of conductor Ernesto Estigarribia and stage director Shelley Cooper will help us tell the stories of two Holocaust survivors: In Act I, Krystyna Żywulska, assisted by ghosts of Auschwitz, shares her story of survival with a journalist. In Act II Gad Beck is haunted by his first love, the poet Manfred Lewin, who perished in Auschwitz. We have a stellar cast, so get your tickets and please join us!

For tickets and more information please click HERE.

It is a huge honor to be asked by the fabulous composer Sally Wyche Coenen to join the utterly artistic and pearlescent-toned countertenor Daniel Moody and the wonderful pianist Damon Denton for this recital retrospective of Coenen’s art songs. Coenen finds a great muse in the lyrics/poetry of Keller Cushing Freeman. If you are near Athens, GA or Greenville, SC, please come hear us! The songs are vibrant and enchanting. (Note: We will be singing on the 24th in Athens, GA and on the 25th in Greenville, SC!).

Location: Acadia Community - Meeting House: 1 Village Mews Rd, Piedmont, SC 29673 (ask for the Meeting House)
Tickets: Free and open to the public

It is a huge honor to be asked by the fabulous composer Sally Wyche Coenen to join the utterly artistic and pearlescent-toned countertenor Daniel Moody and the wonderful pianist Damon Denton for this recital retrospective of Coenen’s art songs. Coenen finds a great muse in the lyrics/poetry of Keller Cushing Freeman. If you are near Athens, GA or Greenville, SC, please come hear us! The songs are vibrant and enchanting. (Note: We will be singing on the 24th in Athens, GA and on the 25th in Greenville, SC!)

Location: Unitarian Universalist Fellowship - 780 Timothy Rd, Athens, GA 30606
Tickets: Free and open to the public

I could not be more excited for this West Village Chorale summer sings session! This will be my first
public performance of the soprano solo in the Brahms “Requiem.” It is one of those pieces a soprano dreams of singing, and I feel so lucky to do so under the direction of Maestro Ryan Brandau in the storied and gorgeous Judson Church along with the beautiful voices of the West Village Chorale and other singers!

Location: Judson Memorial Church - 55 Washington Square South (at Thompson Street)
Tickets: $15 general/$10 student
COVID policy: Must show vaccination and wear a masks that covers your nose and mouth at all times.

I am so looking forward to supporting the fundraising efforts of poet Richard Blanco and my dear friend, poet Spencer Reece as well as Reverend Jacob Smith and Calvary-St. George in New York City. They are fundraising for a library at the Anglican Center in Santiago, Spain. The Anglican Center is a place where ordained women can celebrate at the altar having just finished their camino. This center and library are extremely important additions to Santiago because the majority of the centers where pilgrims arrive upon finishing the camino are Catholic. As such, ordained women are not recognized or allowed to celebrate at the altar. The Anglican Center and the library within it will give women a place to properly mark the conclusion of their camino.

The library will be named in honor of the first girl's orphanage ever to exist in Honduras, named Our Little Roses (https://www.ourlittleroses.org). Having a library in honor of the girls continues the theme of empowering women in the church.

I will be singing two newly commissioned art songs which set poems by one of the girls from Our Little Roses. Her name is Aylin. These songs setting Aylin’s poetry are by the wonderful composer Laura Jobin-Acosta who also gave of her time to support the fundraiser.

Please come support this important event!

Location: Calvary-St. George in New York City
More Details TBA

Johanna is coming from the Netherlands to sing a gorgeous duo recital with me! We will be singing duets and solos by Mendelssohn, Schütz, Bach, Händel, and Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn. Come here us!

Location: The Hungarian House - 213 East 82nd Street, New York, NY 10028
Free and open to the public

Pianist Jason Wirth and I travel to Iowa to give a recital for the Iowa Federation of Music Clubs during their 2022 Conference (an event postponed from 2020). It means the world to me to return to my home state which I represented as the winner of the National Federation of Music Club’s Biennial competition in Voice in 2019. From the ages of 6 to 17, I participated in NFMC competitions as a pianist under the tutelage of my beloved piano teacher and friend, Marilyn Mitchem, of Bettendorf, Iowa. It will truly be a thrill to go home to sing and to see Marilyn and the IFMC community. Come here songs by Rodrigo, Strauss, and Weill, as well as a new and gorgeous song by Nathan Shields!

Open to the public and FREE

Location: Lyceum Theater (within the Campus Student Center) at Grandview University in Des Moines, IA.
#31 on the map: https://www.grandview.edu/about/community/campus-map-directions

I am honored to sing again as the soprano soloist with Ars Choralis as they welcome in the spring with Mozart’s Vesperae solennes de confessore (Solemn Vespers of the Confessor). The last time I sang this piece with Ars Choralis was in 2011!

Details: TBD but please check the Ars Choralis website: https://arschoralis.org/season/

I am honored to sing again as the soprano soloist with Ars Choralis as they welcome in the spring with Mozart’s Vesperae solennes de confessore (Solemn Vespers of the Confessor). The last time I sang this piece with Ars Choralis was in 2011!

Details: TBD but please check the Ars Choralis website: https://arschoralis.org/season/

Another concert cancelled last year is back on the schedule! 

I cannot wait to head home for my debut with Chamber Music Quad Cities. I’ll be singing with esteemed pianist and co-founder of CMQC, Thomas Sauer. Read more below!

Seven poets, nine composers: CMQC has commissioned nine composers to set to music poems submitted by Quad-City-area poets. On this special evening in March, poets Audra Kerr Brown, Joe Chambers, Therese Guise, Carl Herzig, Farah Marklevits, Beth Roberts, and Johnnie Woods will be present to read their poems aloud; each reading will be followed by a newly composed song using that poem as text. Composers include Jacob Bancks (Augustana College), Brian Baxter (QC Symphony), William Campbell (St. Ambrose University), as well as Patrick Castillo, Monica Gil, Robinson McClellan, Thomas Sauer, Nathan Shields, and Suzanne Sorkin. Join us for an evening exploring the alchemy of words and music.Thomas and the CMQC commissioned new art songs from seven contemporary composers and all of these new songs feature poetry chosen from . All of the poetry chosen for the songs is also commissioned, as the CMQC called for submissions of works by Iowan poets. The concert is a celebration of Iowa, its great poets, and of the composers who wrote these beautiful new art songs. 

Tickets and Details: HERE

After its cancellation in March 2020, I cannot wait to finally sing this gorgeous oratorio with Princeton Pro Musica under music director Ryan Brandau! The piece honors the life and legacy of Anne Frank, seventy-seven years after her death. James Whitbourn’s haunting, moving music sets the words of her diary for chorus, soprano, and chamber ensemble.

Location: Richardson Auditorium on the Princeton University Campus
To read more about the oratorio and for ticketing information, CLICK HERE.

I am honored that Princeton Pro Musica asked me to curate an evening of song and poetry in advance of their choir’s performance of James Whitbourn’s oratorio Annelies. The evening will feature compositions by Jewish composers: Erich Korngold, Leo Smit, Henriëtte Bosmans, and Ruth Schonthal. Selected poetry from “I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children's Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942–1944” will be read by well-known poet, and my dear friend, Spencer Reece (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/spencer-reece). Spencer also reads his own deeply moving poem, “Margaret,” about a Holocaust survivor he knew in Minnesota. We will be joined by the fabulous pianist, Jason Wirth (www.jasonwirth.com) and fantastic flutist, David Ordovskiy (www.davidordovskiyflute.com). Please listen in on live-stream!

How to watch us (in 2 steps)!:

Step 1 - Click this link on March 4th: https://tinyurl.com/March4thRecital (Important: there will be nothing to see until just before the performance.)

Step 2 - Click on the LIVE video when it appears. (Note: the right side of the screen will populate with a LIVE video around 7:25 PM EST on March 4th.)

Lily is excited to share a program of music by Austrian composers—most of them Jewish— who had to flee Austria just before or during World War II. The recital includes music of Schoenberg, Krenek, Grosz, Korngold, and Schonthal.

This concert is postponed to a time (hopefully soon!) when we can be perform safely again in front of an in-person audience in addition to the livestream-ed audience.

Lily can’t wait to sing her next online recital with her fabulously talented friend Jason Wirth at the piano. This time around the duo performs music of Rodrigo, Barber, Boulanger, Amy Beach, Strauss, Mascagni, and others. Please join us on Youtube live (see the below link) at 11:30-ish AM EDT! (11:30-ish because the concert begins when the NFMC group arrives to watch the Youtube recital, so please arrive a little early to watch live!).

Join us HERE: https://tinyurl.com/NFMCRegionRecital and then click on the LIVE video that will populate the right side of the screen once Lily and Jason are LIVE!

Lily returns to the master class series at The Metropolitan Opera Guild for their afternoon on Roméo et Juliette. She sings the famous aria “Je veux vivre” under the tutelage of soprano Jane Marsh. The class is pre-taped but will be played for a live webinar with Lily present along with the other singers and Jane for a discussion on the opera.
Zoom/link information will be available starting January 11th.

Lily and her friend Jason Wirth give a recital at the The Oratory Church of St. Boniface in Brooklyn, NY. They will perform music of Purcell, Poulenc, Schubert, and Weill.

This event is LIVESTREAM only. A link for the concert is forthcoming.

Lily can’t wait to go to Dayton, Ohio to sing with Katie Hughes at the piano in a recital for the Dayton Music Club/Ohio Federation of Music Clubs! The program includes Schubert, Purcell, Rodrigo, Puccini, and Weill!

Christ United Methodist Church
3440 Shroyer Rd, Kettering, OH 45429

This concert will be live-streamed and is available at:

https://www.facebook.com/events/243978220390638
or
https://vimeo.com/463062341  (This link should go live just before the concert begins)

Lily is honored to sing with organist Charles Duncan for the reopening of St. Mark’s Church in her neighborhood of Jackson Heights, NY. The church has been closed during the pandemic. Meanwhile, the gardens were lovingly cared for by a dedicated group of volunteers, and Lily is proud to have helped start a pollinator garden there this past summer with her friends. Now the gardens and church will reopen to the public as they welcome a new priest, Padre Spencer Reece.

Social distancing and masks required.
33-50 82nd St, Queens, NY 11372

Lily sings Amour one more time with Libero Canto. This time in Amagansett, East Hampton.

Location: Amagansett Life-Saving Station - 160 Atlantic Ave, Amagansett, NY 11930
Tickets: TBA

Lily appears as Amour in Gluck’s "Orphée et Eurydice” in New York City with Libero Canto. She loves this music and this role.

Location: The Hungarian House - 213 East 82nd St, New York, NY 10028
Tickets: TBA

Lily is excited to give a recital with Dr. Stephen Sachs at the piano in Canton, MS for the MFMC. Repertoire TBA.

Location: Canton United Methodist Church - 3808 N Liberty St, Canton, MS 39046

CURRENTLY CANCELLED FOR COVID-19.

Lily and the choir Ars Choralis of Woodstock, NY perform Whitbourn’s cantata “Annelies” in a two concert series.

Details TBA.