The Gerda Lissner Foundation has announced that mezzo-soprano Erin Wagner is the first prize winner of the 2024 Lieder / Song Vocal Competition. “I am so immensely grateful and honored to have been awarded First Prize in this year’s Gerda Lissner Foundation Lieder Competition,” said Wagner, a winner of the 2021 Naumburg Foundation Vocal Award, per an official press release. {…}
The Young Concert Artists series continues this Spring with several major performances. Here is a rundown of the classical vocal showcases on offer. First up, tenor Daniel McGrew joins forces with pianists Sophia Zou and Nathaniel LaNasa for a performance at The Morgan Library & Museum in New York City. The program features works by Schumann and Fauré and a world {…}
Young Concert Artists has released the highlights of its spring 2024 season. Only vocal concerts are listed in this article. Starting things off, the Young Concert Artists perform at the New York Festival of Song: “All Together Now.” Performance Date: February 21, 2024 Mezzo-soprano Erin Wagner makes DC and NY debuts in “Everything Must Change,” with pianist Shawn Chang. Performance {…}
The Walter W. Naumburg Foundation will present mezzo-soprano Erin Wagner in recital on Nov. 20, 2023 at Weill Recital Hall. The event will feature Wagner alongside pianist Shawn Chang as they take on the world premiere “Joy,” a work by Errollyn Wallen, commissioned by the Foundation. The program also includes Mahler’s “Des Knaben Wunderhorn,” and works by Stefana Turkewich, Shawn {…}
Young Concert Artists (YCA) revealed its 2023-2024 season, including debuts of four new artists in New York and a co-presentation with the New York Festival of Song. The season will feature YCA Auditions and a Winners Concert, both live-streamed, four noontime performances, and a grand finale at Carnegie Hall. Four YCA artists will also showcase their talent at the Kennedy {…}
The New York Festival of Songs has announced the lineup for the 2023-24 season. “100 Years of Broadway Love” is presented by soprano Kerrigan Bigelow, mezzo-soprano Sophia Baete, and baritone Shavon Lloyd, with Steven Blier as pianist following a weeklong residency in Orient, NY. Performance Dates: August 21-27, 2023 Kicking off its 36th season mainstage season is curators and co-pianists {…}
The San Francisco Opera Center and Merola Opera Program continues Schwabacher recitals for season 39 on April 12 at San Francisco’s Dianne and Tad Taube Atrium Theater in the Veterans Building. Schwabacher’s series will feature a remarkable group of performers, including countertenor Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, mezzo-soprano Erin Wagner, and pianists Carrie-Ann Matheson and Shawn Chang. “We will present a {…}
San Francisco Opera and the Merola Opera Program have announced the 2023 Schwabacher Recital Series. The series opens with a concert featuring soprano Meigui Zhang and pianist John Churchill as they present music in German, French, and Chinese. Performance Date: March 1, 2023 That will be followed up by a concert featuring the San Francisco Opera Adler Fellows and Merola {…}
The Walter W. Naumburg Foundation is set to present Erin Wagner at the Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall on April 19, 2022. She performs alongside pianist Shawn Chang in a program entitled “But How Things Change.” The duo will present music Edie Hill’s “The Giver of Stars: Six Poems of Amy Lowell;” Gabriel Fauré’s “Rêve d’amour,” “Nell,” “L’Hiver a {…}
Erin Wagner has been named the winner of the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation’s 2021 International Vocal Competition. A student of Juilliard, Wagner will receive $25,000 and two New York concerts. The finals for the competition took place on Thursday, May 27, 2021. Other finalists included Megan Moore and William Socolof. Each artist was expected to present two full recital programs {…}
As most of The Juilliard School’s students are now off-campus or living back home due to the coronavirus pandemic, Juilliard’s faculty continues to proactively develop alternate ways to prioritize safety and support for their students and community. Juilliard is like other educational institutions that are trouble-shooting and preparing for indefinitely new circumstances that effect education moving forward. Specifically, however, Juilliard {…}