PHILADELPHIA, PA
Louise TALMA: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Ten Blake Songs
NEW YORK, NY
Carnegie Hall @ St. John the Divine
Well-Being Concerts
Arias by J.S. BACH and Dietrich BUXTEHUDE
SANTA FE, NM
Music by BACH, VIVALDI, CORELLI, BUXTEHUDE, PACHELBEL, BARBARA STROZZI
…Last week’s Thanksgiving holiday was chaotic and delicious in all the ways it’s supposed be. Noah and I hosted roughly 25 friends and family members, with multiple generations gathered (and running around) the dinner table. After the last few years of somber Thanksgivings navigating various family tragedies and health struggles, we are both hopeful that last week marks the beginning of a new chapter of joyful holiday gatherings with the incredible community we feel so lucky to have surrounding us…
I filmed and produced a new short documentary — Rebecca Clarke: Her Legacy Revealed — which premieres today on YouTube.
Created while recording our new album Rebecca Clarke: The Complete Songs for Signum Classics, this 40-minute film tells the story…
I send you greetings from Rome, where we are in the midst of preparations for the opening of Kaija Saariaho’s Adriana Mater at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma next week. It’s a joy to reunite with my Grammy-winning colleagues from San Francisco and to have another chance at this extraordinary opera we all worked so hard to learn a few years ago in the Bay. The sweltering summer temperatures lingered on…
I’m thrilled to share that five volumes of new editions of Rebecca Clarke’s early songs are now available from ClarNan Editions. I had the privilege of co-editing these scores with Christopher Johnson—Clarke’s great-nephew by marriage—who worked closely with…
“…Each day, our newsfeeds are filled with stories of conflict in our increasingly polarized world. The very technology meant to bring us closer together now often seems to be driving us apart. Social media’s algorithms, rather than fostering genuine connection, feed on division, amplifying outrage, and eroding empathy. As these societal rifts widen, the Internet relentlessly delivers images and videos of violence…”
Episode 12 of #BACH52 is now live! This episode features an interview with Dr . Reginald Sanders, Professor of Music at Kenyon College, who chats about leaving the Tech Industry to devote his life to the study of Bach’s music, and how he feels there really are no barriers to enjoy it.
“…American tenor Nicholas Phan lent his bright, lyric instrument and an expressive stillness to a handful of early German songs and brought an understated sensuality to The Cherry-Blossom Wand (Clarke once described the dividing line between music and sex as “so tenuous as to be almost non-existent”)...”
“Rich, radiant performances bring a forgotten voice to life
Rebecca Clarke’s songs have been edging on to the radar recently, but this recording, led by the mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately, tenor Nicholas Phan and pianist Anna Tilbrook, is the first time they have all been assembled together…”
100 years ago, one of the best viola players of her generation – Rebecca Clarke – gave a sold-out concert at London’s Wigmore Hall. All of the music on the programme she had written herself. A new album of her works and a series of events will mark the centenery. Tenor Nicholas Phan and writer and broadcaster Leah Broad discuss.
“Nicholas Phan, in the role of Yonas, addresses with rare musical intelligence a part of extraordinary psychological complexity. His voice, of clear lyricism and finely-controlled vibrato, moves between innocence and despair, never giving in to pathos.“
– GB Opera
This November, the music of the trailblazing yet long-neglected British composer Rebecca Clarke takes centre stage with the release of a landmark recording and a dedicated Focus Day at Wigmore Hall. Internationally-acclaimed British mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately, Grammy Award-winning American tenor Nicholas Phan, and distinguished British pianist Anna Tilbrook have joined forces to record Rebecca Clarke – The Complete Songs, the first album to encompass Clarke’s entire song output, many of which are world premiere recordings….
CINCINNATI, OH
Geroge Frideric HANDEL: Messiah