Illustration of composers Nadi and Lili Boulanger | Boulanger Initiative
Since 2022, I have worked periodically with the Boulanger Initiative (BI), a Washington DC-based organization that advocates for the music of women and gender-marginalized composers, as a Research Volunteer, Senior Research Intern, and freelance writer.
Also, don’t forget to check out the Boulanger Initiative Database, which contains more than 15,000 works by over 1,600 women and gender-marginalized composers. It’s an excellent resource for musicians, scholars, teachers, and all those interested in learning more about these incredible composers and their music!
With support from the Berlin Program and German Studies Association, I will present IN SEARCH OF COMPOSER LUISE ADOLPHA LE BEAU: A LIEDERABEND on Friday June 6th from 7-9pm. This concert will explore the songs of German composer Luise Adolpha Le Beau in performance, including commentary on the socio-cultural, historical, and musical elements of Le Beau’s Lieder oeuvre.
This event is free and open to the public; it will be followed by a garden reception. During the event, commentary will be given in German.
Please register by sending an email to bprogram@zedat.fu-berlin.de. Check out this flyerfor more information.
I’m excited to announce that I will be a 2024/2025 Max Kade Postdoctoral Fellow at the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies at the Freie Universität in Berlin. To read more on the 2024/2025 Berlin Program fellows and their research, click here.
During the fellowship, I will revise and expand my DMA thesis on the Lieder of composer Luise Adolpha Le Beau (1850-1927). My project is titled, Cornflowers and Heather: The ‘In-Between’ Songs of Luise Adolpha Le Beau.
For more information on my Le Beau research, including media clips and the Le Beau publishing project, click here.
In the fall of 2022, I performed with DC-based opera company, IN Series, in REQUIEM.
Conceived and directed by Timothy Nelson, REQUIEM is an innovative staged production of Mozart’s Requiem, paired with the music of two brilliant and often ignored 20th-century composers: French composer Lili Boulanger (1893-1918) and Canadian composer Claude Vivier (1948-1983).
Watch our performance of REQUIEM in Baltimore’s 2640 Space here on INVision, IN Series’ digital streaming platform.
In 2020, at the terrible height of the COVID-19 pandemic, eight current and former Peabody Institute voice students collaborated via Soundtrap to record Scott Ordway’s “North Woods.”
Ordway composed “North Woods” as an octet for treble voice in 2014, commissioned by the Lorelei Ensemble. Through texts by Roman historian Tacitus, “North Woods” explores the physical and psychological concept of the “North,” a frontier that mysteriously beckons us, remaining vast and ever elusive.
Check out our final recording of this atmospheric chamber work on Soundcloud and my projects.
In January 2024, I had a fantastic time creating a new set of aria recordings. Our session took place at St Malachy in Manhattan, and I was lucky to work with pianist Eric Sedgwick and recording engineer Nathan Siler.
I also shared the recording session with wonderful soprano (and longtime friend) Elizabeth Van Os.
We recorded selections from Mozart’s Così fan tutte, Kurt Weill’s One Touch of Venus, Jacques Offenbach’s Le fifre enchanté, and Leoš Janáček’s Příhody lišky Bystroušky (The Cunning Little Vixen). Check out the videos on YouTubeand my media.
