11th Biennial Art Song Competition
Competition
Program
Isaiah Diaz: Orphanage
text by Federico Garcia Lorca
translated by Will Kirkland
Mila Zhou, soprano
Diego Carillo, piano
Mukil Narayanan: When Everything is Quiet
text by Mukil Narayanan
Tony DeLousia, baritone
Max Tafoya, piano
Sam Mason: A Poison Tree
text by William Blake
Natalie Sweeney, mezzo-soprano
Sam Mason, piano
Cooper Grosscup: I Confess
text by Sappho
translated by Mary Bernard
Adellyn Geenen, mezzo-soprano
Oliver Moore, piano
Claire Stephenson: No, thank you, John
text by Christina Rossetti
Clara Abrahams, soprano
Youmei Xia, piano
Jodie Lai: Landscape
text by Federico Garcia Lorca
translated by Will Kirkland
Clara Abrahams, soprano
Xingang Lei, piano
Grant Steinweg: We Wear the Mask
text by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Sheng Feng Chan, tenor
Grant Steinweg, piano
Matt Holloway: A Ballad of Old and New
text by Cicely Fox Smith
Jana Justus, mezzo-soprano
Wei Zhao, piano
Max Marcus: Leve Me Here Crying
text by Federico Garcia Lorca
translated by Will Kirkland
Mumtozbegim Ochilova, soprano
Niyang Wang, piano
Alexander Malinas: Starry Rhymes
text by Allen Ginsberg
B. Schaubhut, baritone
Alexander Malinas, piano
Lawrence Pech: Call to Arms/The Battle
text by Herman Melville and John W. De Forest
Sid Chand, tenor
Alexander Malinas, piano
Composition
David Conte
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