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Christopher Corwin

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James R. Oestreich

The New York Times

“baroque style and expressive panache”

David Shengold

Opera News

“silvery-toned”

Charles T. Downey

Washington Classical Review

Noelle McMurtry, soprano, has established herself as a versatile and expressive vocal performer, researcher, concert curator, and writer, who employs her interdisciplinary background in service of contemporary and inclusive storytelling. She engages with genre-bending music-theater projects that explore diverse and underrepresented feminist perspectives to question and re-contextualize the canon.

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Research Internship at the Boulanger Initiative

Research Internship at the Boulanger Initiative

Date: Jun 29th, 2023 - August 24th, 2023Time: All Day Event

I am excited to work again with the Boulanger Initiative (BI) as a Summer 2023 Research Intern. The Boulanger Initiative is a Washington DC-based organization that advocates for women and all gender marginalized composers.

Peabody Commencement Ceremony

Peabody Commencement Ceremony

Date: May 24th, 2023Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PMVenue: Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University

On Wednesday, May 24th, I will graduate from Peabody Insitute with a Doctor of Musical Arts in Voice and a Master of Music in Musicology. I am also excited to be a featured performer at the Commencement Ceremony, where I will present two songs by Fre...

Unearthing a Self-Curated Nachlaß: A General Survey of Luise Adolpha Le Beau’s Published Lieder

Unearthing a Self-Curated Nachlaß: A General Survey of Luise Adolpha Le Beau's Published Lieder

Date: April 29th, 2023Time: 6:30 PM - 7:30 PMVenue: Cohen-Davison Family Theatre

This DMA lecture recital will provide an overview of the published Lieder opuses of Romantic-era composer Luise Adolpha Le Beau (1850-1927). With the support of a Presser Graduate Award, this research project began over a year ago, as I undertook arc...

Acting Art Song: A Workshop

Acting Art Song: A Workshop

Date: March 15th, 2023Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PMVenue: University of Maryland

Acting Art Song is designed as a general introduction for undergraduate and graduate voice students to develop the necessary research, analytical, and performance skills to confidently engage with art song as a multi-faceted repertoire. In addition t...

Snapshots

by Noelle McMurtry | Aug 11, 2023 | Social Media | 0 Comments

July weekend in NYC: Mister Roger's Variety Hour, Rooftop at the Whitney & Tea with November ☀️

by Noelle McMurtry | Aug 1, 2023 | Social Media | 0 Comments

AMOR statue by Robert Indiana at the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden

by Noelle McMurtry | Jul 29, 2023 | Social Media | 0 Comments

Cashew prepping for his first job interview

by Noelle McMurtry | Jun 12, 2023 | Social Media | 0 Comments

We made it to Machu Picchu! 🦙

by Noelle McMurtry | Jun 12, 2023 | Social Media | 0 Comments

Hiking the Inca Trail in Peru

by Noelle McMurtry | May 25, 2023 | Social Media | 0 Comments

Peabody DMA Graduation 🎉

by Noelle McMurtry | May 16, 2023 | Social Media | 0 Comments

Gorgeous portrait of composer Luise Adolpha Le Beau by Kira of Coloraturastrations

by Noelle McMurtry | Apr 30, 2023 | Social Media | 0 Comments

DMA Lecture Recital prep with Hui-Chuan Chen (piano)

by Noelle McMurtry | Apr 22, 2023 | Social Media | 0 Comments

Cashew considering baby geese on the Tidal Basin

To Be Loved Less Than a Flower: “Hyacinth” by Margaret Bonds & Edna St. Vincent Millay

by Noelle McMurtry | Aug 11, 2023 | Composer | 0 Comments

In composer Margaret Bonds’ setting of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Hyacinth,” we encounter an unflinching intersectional feminist portrait of the ever-shifting dynamics between gender, power, and love.

Singing with Myself: Pandemic Virtual Performance & Melissa Dunphy’s June

by Noelle McMurtry | Dec 1, 2022 | Composer | 0 Comments

Through virtually recording Melissa Dunphy's "June" in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, I confronted long-held insecurities around technology by learning how to sing with myself.

In Search of Luise Adolpha Le Beau (Part II): An Estate in Ashes

by Noelle McMurtry | Aug 8, 2022 | Research | 0 Comments

In Part II of my Le Beau series, I trace the fate of the composer's estate materials from her death in 1927 through the totalitarian regimes of twentieth-century Germany.

In Search of Luise Adolpha Le Beau (Part I): My Mother in the Library

by Noelle McMurtry | Jul 1, 2022 | Research | 0 Comments

In Part I of my series on researching the songs of composer Luise Adolpha Le Beau, I unexpectedly uncover my mother's past in the library.

The Woman Within the Portrait: Ria & Mizzi

by Noelle McMurtry | Mar 1, 2022 | Composer | 0 Comments

In Lacy Rose's cycles "Ria" and "Hope I," the composer humanizes through song the models of painter Gustav Klimt: the women within the portraits.

Suffragist Series: Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954)

by Noelle McMurtry | Mar 1, 2022 | Research,Season Highlights | 0 Comments

Suffragist Series highlights the fascinating suffrage activists that I researched as dramaturg for A Women's Suffrage Splendiferous Extravaganza! (AWSSE!), including writer, educator, and civil rights activist Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954).

“one heart and one soul”: The Songs of Clara and Robert Schumann

by Noelle McMurtry | Feb 25, 2022 | Composer | 0 Comments

In the Pleiades Project film "German Romantics: Clara," we explore the musical and romantic partnership between composers Clara and Robert Schumann that produced Clara's Lieder Op. 12.

«… und, wo ist Fanny?»

by Noelle McMurtry | Feb 18, 2022 | Composer | 0 Comments

Despite intense self-doubt and familial pressure to forego publication, the 1846 publication of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's "Sechs Lieder, op. 1" represents the composer's assertion of a public and professional identity.

The Myth of Semele: A Woman on Fire

by Noelle McMurtry | Feb 18, 2022 | Composer,Research | 0 Comments

I explore the myth of Semele, a woman on fire, in its many visual and musical permutations, including historical portraits and Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre's 1715 biblical cantata "Semelé."

An Ancient Poet Speaks: Finding the Voice of Sulpicia

by Noelle McMurtry | Feb 18, 2022 | Poet,Research | 0 Comments

Jessica Krash's "Sulpicia Songs" (2015) for voice and piano counters the sexist narrative that Sulpicia, an ancient Roman noblewoman, did not write six love elegies in the "Corpus Tibullianum."

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