Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program Presents
First Songs: Dawn Upshaw and the Bard Graduate Vocal Arts Program at the Morgan Library
Sunday, April 12, 2015
Morgan Library, 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016
Dawn Upshaw, internationally renowned soprano and Bard Vocal Arts Program artistic director, will perform with pianist and Bard faculty Kayo Iwama, the singers of the program, and the Bard Conservatory Collaborative Piano Fellows. The concert will feature the world premiere of Garden Songs by the acclaimed Argentinian composer Pablo Ortiz on the poetry of Louise Gluck, and written for Dawn Upshaw. The program will also include new and recent works by Kyle Gann (Your Staccato Ways), Shawn Jaeger (Two Songs from The Cold Pane), Matthew Schickele (Since 1500), and Bard composer Tamzin Elliott (When Vera), among others.For more information, call 212-685-0008,
or visit http://www.themorgan.org/programs/first-songs-dawn-upshaw-and-bard-graduate-vocal-arts-program.
Location: Morgan Library, 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016