Brooklyn Art Song Society (BASS) is set to open its 2026 New Voices Festival on Sunday, April 12. The first concert titled, “Longing I” will feature a program spotlighting the extraordinary vitality of composers from the United Kingdom. The concert will feature the world premiere of a new BASS commission by Charlotte Bray, recipient of the inaugural Van Koolbergen Commission {…}
The Brooklyn Art Song Society is set to close its Cycles series with “Evidence of Things Not Seen” on March 8, 2026. The evening will showcase the largest and most ambitious work by Ned Rorem. Written over decades and premiered in 1997, this evening-length song cycle sets 36 texts by 24 writers and unfolds as a profound meditation on the human {…}
Brooklyn Art Song Society (BASS) has announced the artists selected for its 2026–27 Young Artist Program, a year-long professional development and performance initiative supporting emerging singers and collaborative pianists with a deep commitment to the art song repertoire. The 2026–27 artists include soprano Bridget Esler, mezzo-soprano Katherine Lerner Lee, baritone Erik Grendahl, and pianists Anna Sunmin Park and Brock Tjosvold. {…}
The Five Boroughs Music Festival (5BMF) has announced its collaboration with soprano Alice Teyssier. The Philadelphia early music trio, Filament will make its 5BMF debut with Alice Teyssier in the program, “Bound Up in Love.” Filament’s soloists are violinist Evan Few, Elena Kauffman on the viola da gamba, and keyboardist John Walthausen. The program places works by Isabella Leonarda, Barbara {…}
Brooklyn Art Song Society (BASS) is set to present “Cycles V: Harawi.” The concert, which will be held on Feb. 1, will feature Messiaen’s song cycle for voice and piano. Mezzo-soprano Erin Wagner returns to BASS following her standout debut last season and she will be accompanied by pianist Shawn Chang. The evening will also feature a pre-concert lecture at {…}
On Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025, the Brooklyn Art Song Society continues its 2025–26 season with Cycles III: Die Schöne Magelone. The Brahms song cycle features fifteen songs that bring to life Ludwig Tieck’s medieval romance about a young knight from Provence and his beloved Magelone, blending vivid storytelling, lyrical passion, and Brahms’s most dramatic writing for voice and piano. The {…}
On Nov. 9, 2025, the Brooklyn Art Song Society will continue its 2025–26 season with the second installment of the Cycles series, a year-long journey through the most ambitious and emotionally expansive works in the art song repertoire. The “Cycles II: Dichterliebe Reimagined” concert will pair Schumann’s “Dichterliebe” with two contemporary reflections on similar themes, including selections from Bernard Foccroulle’s {…}
The Brooklyn Art Song Society (BASS) is set to launch its sixteenth season, Cycles, with all three of Franz Schubert’s song cycles performed in a single day. The event will be on Oct. 12, 2025, at Roulette, where audiences will experience the full expressive range of Schubert’s genius. The marathon opens at 3:00 p.m. with baritone Tyler Duncan and pianist Erika {…}
Brooklyn Art Song Society is set to launch its inaugural Young Artist Program in fall 2026. The program will encompass a year-long residency in which selected singers and pianists will understudy repertory, attend rehearsals, and perform in outreach concerts, house concerts,a nd masterclasses. Moreover, artists will only be required to spend one concentrated week each month in Brooklyn rather than {…}
Brooklyn Art Song Society (BASS) has announced its 2025–26 season. Artistic Director Michael Bronfman said, “In times of crisis, BASS has always doubled down on the core belief that the experience of sharing something expressive face-to-face with others is not a luxury but a fiercely urgent necessity. We will not be silenced and we will not slow down.” The season {…}
The Brooklyn Arts Song Society is set to present the New Voices finale “Lost/Found III.” The concert, which will be held on June 1, 2025, will explore a brave new world of sonic possibilities in song. The evening will include Katherine Balch’s “Phrases,” Fang Man’s Partridge Sky,” Samy Moussa’s “The Sick Rose,” Andrew Staniland’s “Execution Songs,” and Kate Soper’s “The Fragments of {…}