02/16/2020
Director Peter Sellars on Lagrime
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SongFest is the United States' premier art song festival and training program held each summer at the Colburn School in Los Angeles. SongFest attracts an international roster of leading recital artists and pedagogues as well as students from some of the nation’s top music conservatories. Audiences enjoy a vibrant concert series presented in Colburn's state-of-the-art venues that is entirely free to the public, and auditors can attend daily masterclasses and lectures led by the most exciting artists of today.
In partnership with the Sorel Organization, SongFest has made a substantial contribution to the art song repertoire through its commissioning program that has produced new works for voice and piano by such distinguished composers as William Bolcom, Gabriela Lena Frank, John Harbison, Jennifer Higdon, and Libby Larsen.
A limited number of need and merit based scholarship opportunities are available, and eight full scholarships for both singers and collaborative pianists are graciously provided by the Marc and Eva Stern Foundation. SongFest Alumni feature prominently on the rosters of many opera companies, Young Artist programs, and university faculties.
Rosemary Hyler Ritter, Artistic Director
Matthew Morris & Liza Stepanova, Associate Artistic Directors
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Our Programs: PROFESSIONAL PROGRAM FOR SINGERS AND COLLABORATIVE PIANISTS For singers and pianists who have completed their formal school training. Take your artistry to the next level by intense study with the finest international faculty in chamber music and art song. YOUNG ARTIST PROGRAM For third and fourth year undergraduate as well as graduate level singers. Develop your unique artistry in a curriculum of movement, acting, voice lessons, coachings, and performance practice. Observe master classes with senior faculty in the professional program. Advanced students may also participate in professional program masterclasses and performances. STUDIO ARTIST PROGRAM For undergraduate singers in their first two years of study with significant potential for a major operatic or concert career. In rare cases, high-school seniors showing exceptional promise may be admitted to the program. The Studio Artist program at SongFest offers individual attention to every participant at the highest level through the medium of art song. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR COLLEGE TEACHERS Geared towards college faculty in voice and collaborative piano who maintain an active performance calendar and are in their first decade of teaching, this intensive program (offered for the full session or in two half sessions of two weeks each) provides ample opportunity for professional development, performance, and networking. Learn more at our new website www.songfest.us
Mission: SongFest strives to ensure the future of art song by providing young singers and pianists with training and performance opportunities with the most distinguished artists in their field - in a supportive, challenging, and rewarding musical environment. SongFest also aims to increase the understanding and appreciation of song among audiences by presenting classes and concerts in interesting formats.
02/13/2020
HIGH SCHOOL SINGERS!! Check out this new SongFest program Contact Michele Patzakis for information: [email protected]
Apply on Yaptracker
Inaugural SONGFEST High School Vocal Program for Singers!
June 7-21, 2020 at Colburn School
Director Michele Patzakis, michelepatzakis.com
Info: [email protected]
www.songfest.us
02/13/2020
Study with Katherine Jolly, soprano (Oberlin Conservatory), Martha Guth, soprano (Ithaca College) and more ... For full faculty listing visit: songfest.us/faculty
Sparks & Wiry Cries
02/13/2020
Inaugural SONGFEST High School Vocal Program for Singers!
June 7-21, 2020 at Colburn School
Director Michele Patzakis, michelepatzakis.com
Info: [email protected]
www.songfest.us
02/11/2020
APU has a wonderful has a wonderful vocal program and we are thrilled that Natalie will return this summer as a Stern Fellow.. APU Senior Talar Arslanian will attend SongFest also..
Natalie will be one of the soloists in the world premiere of the Sorel commission:" If Trees could Talk": by Sheila Silver (wait until you hear the Tibetan Ringing Bowls!!" with videography by John Feldman. Actress Tandy Cronyn narrates Silver's ' Beauty Intolerable" for soprano and piano- a cycle on the poetry of Edna St Vincent Millay.
SAVE THE DATE: June 13, 7:30pm Zipper Hall, The Colburn School and it''s FREE
www.songfest.us
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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT
Natalie Buickians, soprano ’15
Returns to SongFest 2020 as an Eva and Marc Stern Fellow
Congratulations to Natalie who is a finalist in the Metropolitan Western regionals. She sang at "SongStudio" in Carnegie Hall with Renee Fleming Carnegie Hall
carnegiehall.org/Education/Young-Musicians/Workshops/Song-Studio
02/11/2020
Meet one of the Eva and Marc Stern Fellows for 2020
Sigrún López Jack, mezzo-soprano
Sigrún completed her MM in Voice at USC with Rod Gilfry and recently was a finalist in the Met Western Regional Auditions. westernregionmetauditions.org/?page_id=87
02/11/2020
Natalie Buickians, soprano
SongFest '20 Eva & Marc Stern Fellow!
Come visit this summer! Classes are open to the public and there are concerts galore. www.songfest.us
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT
Natalie Buickians, soprano ’15
Returns to SongFest 2020 as an Eva and Marc Stern Fellow
Congratulations to Natalie who is a finalist in the Metropolitan Western regionals. She sang at "SongStudio" in Carnegie Hall with Renee Fleming Carnegie Hall
carnegiehall.org/Education/Young-Musicians/Workshops/Song-Studio
02/10/2020
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT
Natalie Buickians, soprano ’15
Returns to SongFest 2020 as an Eva and Marc Stern Fellow
Congratulations to Natalie who is a finalist in the Metropolitan Western regionals. She sang at "SongStudio" in Carnegie Hall with Renee Fleming Carnegie Hall
carnegiehall.org/Education/Young-Musicians/Workshops/Song-Studio
02/10/2020
Songfest NEWS!
excited to announce Lucy Fitz Gibbon as the 2020 Distinguished Alumni. She will be joined by Ryan MacEvoy McCullough (Colburn School Alum) in a recital June 3, 7pm Thayer Hall The Colburn School. SongFest faculty Alan Louis Smith's recent 5 song cycle “Surfing the Thin Places,” will be programmed. COME hear these wonderful artists!
Songfest Alumni Spotlight – Lucy Fitz Gibbon, ’09
Lucy Fitz Gibbon, ’09, soprano, will present the 2020 Alumni Recital June 5th at Thayer Hall. Featuring a new song cycle by Alan Louis Smith. Lucy will be joined by Colburn Alum Ryan McCullough, piano.
www.songfest.us
02/10/2020
SongFest
SongFest Faculty Spotlight – John Harbison, composer
SongFest honors John Harbison this summer in a concert featuring two world premieres June 6th: “In the Early Evening” – Addy Sterrett, soprano and Robert Thies, Pianist, piano and “Four Songs for Robin” – Daniel McGrew, tenor and Lydia Brown, piano.
Also:
“Milosz Songs” – Lucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano and Lydia Brown, piano
June 7th Concert – John will conduct two Bach Cantatas with strings, oboe and flute
www.songfest.us
02/10/2020
Songfest Alumni Spotlight – Lucy Fitz Gibbon, ’09
Lucy Fitz Gibbon, ’09, soprano, will present the 2020 Alumni Recital June 5th at Thayer Hall. Featuring a new song cycle by Alan Louis Smith. Lucy will be joined by Colburn Alum Ryan McCullough, piano.
www.songfest.us
02/09/2020
SongFest
SongFest Faculty Spotlight – John Harbison, composer
SongFest honors John Harbison this summer in a concert featuring two world premieres June 6th: “In the Early Evening” – Addy Sterrett, soprano and Robert Thies, Pianist, piano and “Four Songs for Robin” – Daniel McGrew, tenor and Lydia Brown, piano.
Also:
“Milosz Songs” – Lucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano and Lydia Brown, piano
June 7th Concert – John will conduct two Bach Cantatas with strings, oboe and flute
www.songfest.us
02/09/2020
SongFest Faculty Spotlight – John Harbison, composer
SongFest honors John Harbison this summer in a concert featuring two world premieres June 6th: “In the Early Evening” – Addy Sterrett, soprano and Robert Thies, Pianist, piano and “Four Songs for Robin” – Daniel McGrew, tenor and Lydia Brown, piano.
Also:
“Milosz Songs” – Lucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano and Lydia Brown, piano
June 7th Concert – John will conduct two Bach Cantatas with strings, oboe and flute
www.songfest.us
02/02/2020
Calling You - Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
Peter Serkin died today- Lorraine Hunt Lieberson 2013-
What a loss
Calling You (from Bagdad Cafe) Gravação ao vivo, em 5 de agosto de 2004 Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, voz Peter Serkin, piano A desert road from vegas to nowhere ...
01/20/2020
SongFest Bosto0j live auditions have been re- schedule for Monday Jan 27 at NEC
Apply on Yaptracker we still have spots!
01/10/2020
SongFest
A Master class at SongFest with MARTIN KATZ and the fabulous Mark Trawka playing
2017 alums Danielle Becvermit: Depuis le jour
ANNE WrIGHT: Senza Mamma
JOSH QUINN: COUNT"S Aria
Tune in LIVE to the incredible Martin Katz giving a class on arias this morning!! With SongFest participant singers and our wonderful coach Mark Trawka (Pittsburgh Opera) at the piano.
01/09/2020
Sparks & Wiry Cries
Wish I could go! New Yorkers don't miss this
Tickets for the songSLAM Festival are MOVING! Experience the fourth annual songSLAM Friday, January 17th (a competition for new song where the audience awards $2,000 in prizes), and then come back the next night to see legendary Stephanie Blythe in recital on the 18th.
These are not your typical song recitals! (psst- it ain't your grandmother's pricing either - with everything $25 or less) You *could* go to the Met for over $100 and see this kind of talent through your binoculars... or you could sit 20 feet away from the talent at the The DiMenna Center for Classical Music. 7pm both nights!
http://www.sparksandwirycries.org/songslam-festival
01/09/2020
SongFest
Can't help posting this video again of the AMAZING MARTIN KATZ teaching an aria class at SongFest and there is some gorgeous singing here. Anne Wright singing"Senza Mamma" gives me goosebumps!
We are so thrilled he will be at SONGFEST yaptracker.com/applications/songfest-2020
Tune in LIVE to the incredible Martin Katz giving a class on arias this morning!! With SongFest participant singers and our wonderful coach Mark Trawka (Pittsburgh Opera) at the piano.
01/09/2020
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SONGFEST: Singers/Collab. pianists - May 27-June 22, 2020
Live Audition visit songfest.us • Recorded deadline: Feb 14
SongFest is a student-centered festival dedicated to the study and performance of art song. Participants work with renowned faculty, composers, and voice teachers in private coachings, lessons, and masterclasses. SongFest is hosted by the Colburn School located in L.A. and is packed with performance opportunities and world-class faculty. Scholarships are available!
Selected faculty includes pianists Graham Johnson, Martin Katz, Kevin Murphy, and Roger Vignoles; composers John Harbison, Jake Heggie, Libby Larsen, John Musto, and Sheila Silver; and singers: John Aler, Amy Burton, Lorraine Manz and William McGraw.
01/06/2020
Look at all the piano faculty at SongFest this summer
Apply of yaptracker
yaptracker.com/applications/songfest-2020
love auditions start next week or you may apply with a recorded audition
01/04/2020
SongFest
APPLY SONGFEST 2020 in LA- Colburn School May 27-Jun 22
yaptracker.com/applications/songfest-2020
please share this with your friends
SongFest video and interview when the program was at Pepperdine. See some of the alumni who attended the program and what they and the faculty have to say! Live auditions start next week Jan 12 in TORONTO, NYC, BOSTO and LA. Check out our incredible faculty and programs www.songfest.us
12/30/2019
Canadian Singers and Pianists:
SongFest live audition Toronto:Jan 12
Apply: yaptracker.com/applications/songfest-2020
12/30/2019
Dear Friends: SONGFEST LIVE AUDITIONS are here: Jan 12-19!!! Apply: yaptracker.com/applications/songfest-2020
If you have any students, please have them look into applying for the SONGFEST 2020 program in Los Angeles. We have an amazing group of world-renowned teachers and performers, including Amy Burton, Martin Katz, Graham Johnson, Jake Heggie, William McGraw, John Aler and many many more.... Feel free to private message me with questions, email: [email protected] or visit the website: www.songfest.us. Deadline to apply is Feb 12. Please spread the word and share my post!
12/27/2019
SongFest 2020 at Colburn School, Los Angeles: May 27-June 22, 2020 APPLY:www.yaptracker.come
SONGFEST is a song gathering every June which brings together inspiring, talented and questioning singers and pianists, (faculty and participants alike) but it's more than that.... we have the great honor to perform not only songs from the great composers, but s the most revered texts
Quote from On BEING GATHERING in 2018
"Poetry offers the world something that’s small enough to carry close to your heart, and big enough to carry all of the ordinary things that can be encompassed in any one day.”
12/26/2019
SongFest
Collaborative Pianists!
Don't miss the chance to study with all of these pianists at SongFest.
SongFest 2020 auditions are quickly approaching. Please spread the word to your interested friends, students, and colleagues.
Apply on YAP Tracker: yaptracker.com/applications/songfest-2020
LIVE AUDITIONS
Toronto - January 12, 2020
Boston - January 13, 2020
New York City - January 14 & 15, 2020
Los Angeles - January 19, 2020
South Carolina - February 2, 2020
Accepting Recorded Auditions until February 14, 2020
Javier Arrebola Lydia Brown Graham Johnson Martin Katz Kevin Murphy #AlanLouisSmith Liza Stepanova - pianist
12/23/2019
A HUGE Thank you to the SongFest's graphic designer extraordinaire ROSALINDA MONROY!! What a beautiful collage she made of these fabulous pianists who will be teaching at SongFest this June!!!!!!
Collaborative Pianists!
Don't miss the chance to study with all of these pianists at SongFest.
SongFest 2020 auditions are quickly approaching. Please spread the word to your interested friends, students, and colleagues.
Apply on YAP Tracker: yaptracker.com/applications/songfest-2020
LIVE AUDITIONS
Toronto - January 12, 2020
Boston - January 13, 2020
New York City - January 14 & 15, 2020
Los Angeles - January 19, 2020
South Carolina - February 2, 2020
Accepting Recorded Auditions until February 14, 2020
Javier Arrebola Lydia Brown Graham Johnson Martin Katz Kevin Murphy #AlanLouisSmith Liza Stepanova - pianist
12/23/2019
Collaborative Pianists!
Don't miss the chance to study with all of these pianists at SongFest.
SongFest 2020 auditions are quickly approaching. Please spread the word to your interested friends, students, and colleagues.
Apply on YAP Tracker: yaptracker.com/applications/songfest-2020
LIVE AUDITIONS
Toronto - January 12, 2020
Boston - January 13, 2020
New York City - January 14 & 15, 2020
Los Angeles - January 19, 2020
South Carolina - February 2, 2020
Accepting Recorded Auditions until February 14, 2020
Javier Arrebola Lydia Brown Graham Johnson Martin Katz Kevin Murphy #AlanLouisSmith Liza Stepanova - pianist
12/22/2019
Bruno Roy(alias: "The Fly") seducing Abby Raiford! Bruno gave Jeff Goldblum a run for his money!
BRUNO ROY, baritone
A graduate of the Canadian Opera Company’s Ensemble, Montreal-born Bruno studied at McGill University. The 2018-2019 season included a house debut at Oper Frankfurt in “Capriccio”. In May 2019 Bruno is a recipient of the 2019 Eva & Marc Stern Fellowship at SongFest.
ABBY RAIFORD, soprano
Abby studies with our own SongFest faculty Amy Burton at The New School in NYC. She was recently featured with the Mannes Orchestra singing “Chanson de Ronsard” by Milhaud (lots of high notes!). Abby is thrilled to have been chosen as an Apprentice Artist at Sarasota Opera for 2020. Her performance of Tatyana in Heggie's Great Scott quartet “The Starry Spangled Banner" was unforgettable!
www.songfest.us - 2020 SongFest
12/21/2019
Big announcement! Tenor JOHN ALER will be joining the faculty at SongFest 2020. All you tenors out there (and really any singer) here is your chance to work with one of the most acclaimed lyric tenors! He is known for his wide range of repertoire. Highlight of his teaching will be ORATORIO and French melodie. Listen to:
HANDEL: Semele, HWV 58 “Where’er you walk”
youtu.be/r9UcKAcrj-8
LISZT – “I’ vidi in terra” - Sonetto 123 di Petrarca (S.158/3)
youtu.be/dIQEhJ9cHUg
SONGFEST 2020 | May 27 -June 22, 2020 | Colburn School – LA
www.SongFest.us | Information: info: [email protected]
Apply on YAP Tracker: yaptracker.com/applications/songfest-2020
12/15/2019
SongFest Alumni Spotlight!
Tenor,Sam Krausz, 2016
Seeing Sam recently (playing for singer!) reminded me how talented Sam is! in so many ways! (I told him he reminds me of Grant Gershon ( conductor of LA Master Chorale & LAO, Tenor, pianist!)
Sam attended SongFest 2016 as a Colburn Fellow (as a tenor) and now is teaching at The Musical Arts Center in Cincinnati and singing all over Cincy!.Sam wrote the most incredible daily blog about about his experience as SongFest (which I WILL post on the website).
IF you are a Songfest alumni, please share this post!)
Christmas is in the air now BUT songFest live auditions are coming up mid January!! We have an exciting program for our 25th annivery year: www.songfest.us
TO APPLY: yaptracker.com/applications/songfest-2020
12/07/2019
SongFest
Name that Singer - Day 3
bonus...... (from 2015)
12/07/2019
SongFest 2020 will be our 25th anniversary!
Alumni challenge! Day #3 (again from 2009)
NAME that SINGER! (and flutist and oboist....)
We will post an alumni picture every day and challenge you to NAME THAT SINGER (or pianist)
12/07/2019
SONGFEST 2009:
Can anyone name the singers in this picture?
Don't let the SongFest Jan Auditions sneak up on you with all that Christmas shopping!
APPLY: yaptracker.com/applications/songfest-2020
January 12: TORONTO January 13: Boston
January 14/15: NYC January 19: LA.
Feb 2: Furman
12/03/2019
SongFest
You can donate quickly and securely online through PayPal on our website.
songfest.us/make-a-gift
Since its inception in 1995, SongFest has been a sanctuary for young singers and pianists to learn, experience and discover what makes SONG such a powerful and necessary art in today’s world, studying with the most distinguished artists in the field.
Through an intensive program focusing on music AND words, SongFest offers a precious opportunity to be inspired and replenished and opens a door to a path that leads back to ourselves and to the best of our human nature.
Your contribution will make an impact, whether you donate $5 or $100. SongFest is a California 501(c)3 non-profit and all donations are 100% fully tax deductible.
Thank you!
The SongFest Team
SongFest auditions are quickly approaching. Please spread the word to your interested friends, students, and colleagues.
Apply on YAP Tracker: yaptracker.com/applications/songfest-2020
LIVE AUDITIONS
Cincinnati - December 6, 2019
Toronto - January 12, 2020
Boston - January 13, 2020
New York City - January 14 & 15, 2020
Los Angeles - January 19, 2020
South Carolina - February 2, 2020
Accepting Recorded Auditions until February 14, 2020
#AmyBurton #SophieDelphis #AngelaDeVenuto #BrittanySedgwick #GloriaEngle #CamiliaDillard
12/03/2019
SongFest is proud of alums Bruno Roy (SF 2019) and Ally Smither (SF 2014) opening in Opera Canada’s production of Marriage of Figaro!!
operacanada.ca/event/atg-figaros-wedding/?instance_id=11774
#BrunoRoy #AlexandraSmither
12/02/2019
Singers and Pianists!!!!
Apply NOW on YAP Tracker: yaptracker.com/applications/songfest-2020
Interested in Contemporary art song? SongFest composer faculty will be both curating and coaching at SongFest this summer. Wouldn’t it be fabulous to be able to coach the music you love with the composer themselves? Or maybe even perform for them? Our summer will consist of two premieres by John Harbison, SongFest ’20 Distinguished Faculty and the SOREL commission “Trees” for three solo voices and piano by Sheila Silver. YOU could be chosen to premiere “Trees”!
SONGFEST | May 27 -June 22, 2020 | Colburn School – Los Angeles
SongFest.us | Information: info: [email protected]
John Musto #JohnHarbison #JakeHeggie #LibbyLarsen #SheilaSilver
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SongFest Alumni Concert, Dec 8 in NYC
SongFest Alumni Concert: NYC, Dec 8, 2017 Anne Wright singing Heggie"'s I shall not lIve in Vain
Heggie-Edna St. Vincent Millay
Hello - all you fans of JAKE HEGGIE!!! Jake will be the distinguished composer at SongFest 2019. AT Colburn. There will be a special concert on June 2 , 2018 with SongFest singers + pianists. www.songfest.us LIve auditions start next week ENJOY this video with SF 17 alums, Simone McIntosh and Leona Cheung APPLY: https://www.yaptracker.com/applications/songfest-2019/songfest-submissions
New American Song - SongFest 2017 Concert Series
A Celebration of California Composers - SongFest 2017
A Celebration of California Composers from SongFest 2017 Concert Series.
Tune in LIVE to the incredible Martin Katz giving a class on arias this morning!! With SongFest participant singers and our wonderful coach Mark Trawka (Pittsburgh Opera) at the piano.
A bit of Bach for you from today's rehearsal of BWV 161. It has been so wonderful to have John Harbison with us this week!
SongFest Promotional Video featuring feedback from faculty
SongFest Promotional Video featuring feedback from participants
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Merry Christmas, and a very Happy New Year!!!
Applications now being accepted for SongFest 2019!
We are thrilled! to have Reena Esmail as the Sorel SongFest 2019 composer! Mark your calendars: concert is June 21, 7:30pm, Zipper Hall, The Colburn School, Los Angeles, CA