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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Peabody Commencement Ceremony
Peabody Commencement Ceremony
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
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
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...
Acting Art Song: A Workshop
Acting Art Song: A Workshop
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...
Design: Elizabeth Van Os of Cavatina Creative With the generous support of the Presser Foundation's Presser Graduate Award, I traveled to Germany from late March until...
Design: Elizabeth Van Os of Cavatina Creative With the generous support of the Presser Foundation's Presser Graduate Award, I traveled to Germany from late March until...
Reflections on Lacy Rose's cycles Ria (2018) and Hope I (2017) Lacy Rose's Ria and Hope I were performed as part of Portraits: The Self Illuminated. For more...
Suffragist Series highlights the fascinating suffrage activists that I researched as dramaturg for A Women's Suffrage Splendiferous Extravaganza! (AWSSE!), a new...
Reflections on Melissa Dunphy's June (2012) June was presented as part of the recital-film project, I take the long way there. For more information about this program,...
Reflections on Zwölf Gedichte aus F. Rückerts Liebesfrühling von Robert und Clara Schumann (1841) German Romantics: Clara was featured on the film-recital project, I...
Reflections on Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's Sechs Lieder, Op. 1 (1846) Fanny Mendelssohn's Sechs Lieder, Op. 1 was programmed on The little ghost for The Cantanti...
Reflections on Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre's Semelé (1715) Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre's Semelé was performed as part of Portraits: The Self Illuminated. For more...
Reflections on Jessica Krash's Sulpicia's Songs (2015) Sulpicia's Songs was featured on the film-recital project, I take the long way there. For more information about...
Reflections on Francis Poulenc's Trois Poèmes de Louise de Vilmorin Francis Poulenc's Trois Poèmes de Louise de Vilmorin was performed as part of Portraits: The Self...