Past Seasons
2019
Mt. Holyoke Concerts
February 15, 2019
McCulloch Auditorium, Pratt Music Hall
South Hadley, MA
Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire Plus: Honoring Black History
DA CAPO CHAMBER PLAYERS with LUCY SHELTON
Luciano Berio, O King
David Sanford, Dogma 74
Valerie Coleman, Portraits of Langston
Arnold Schoenberg, Pierrot Lunaire
Vibrant Song with Lucy Shelton
February 24, 2019
Kaufman Music Center, Merkin Concert Hall
New York, NY
From Jan de Gaetani, through to Lucy and on to the next generation...repertoire of Schubert, Rossini, Ravel, Foster, Ives, Villa-Lobos, Knussen, Carter, Schwantner and Zuidam!!
Lucy shares the stage with many collaborators and former students. This concert will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the opening of Abraham Goodman House (now Merkin Hall), which Lucy was the first to rent!
21st Century Consort
April 13, 2019
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Washington, D.C.
River Spirits
World premiere of Susan Botti's new piece for 3 soprani (Susan, Mary Bonhag and Lucy), with bagpipes, recorders, viola da gamba and percussion, conducted by Christopher Kendall.
MusicHaul Pierrot in English
May 27 - 29, 2019
Diversity Plaza - Plaza 33 - Flatiron Plaza
New York, NY
Outdoor Pierrot Lunaire, performed in English, with Yellow Barn musicians.
Chelsea Music Festival
June 8, 2019
St. Paul’s Church
New York, NY
Readings of new songs, with pianists Birnbaum and Tanikawa.
http://www.chelseamusicfestival.org/2019-events
Chelsea Music Festival
June 11, 2019
St. Peter’s Church
New York, NY
Songs by Clara Schumann and Shulamit Ran, with pianist Robert Fleitz; and the PREMIERE of a work by Helena Winkelman for voice and violin.
http://www.chelseamusicfestival.org/2019-events
Chelsea Music Festival
June 12, 2019
General Theological Seminary
New York, NY
Premiere of “Leider liegt kein Schnee” by Santa Ratniece for 2 sopranos and strings.
http://www.chelseamusicfestival.org/2019-events
A Tasting Menu
December 15, 2019
National Sawdust
Brooklyn, NY
Mostly 20th Century song (Cage, Carter, Crawford, Kohn, Rochberg, Gideon, Ran, Druckman, Stravinsky) with pianists Jeremy Gill, Robert Fleitz, Yoon Lee and Sophiko Simsive.
2018
Resonant Bodies Festival House Concert
February 7, 2018
Private Home
New York, NY
I will perform Susan Botti's Bird Songs (with a nest of percussion) perched in some corner of a private home. Three other singers will also perform—a fundraiser for the amazing Resonant Bodies Festival!
Linda Chessis, flute - Faculty Concert
March 18, 2018
Manhattan School of Music, Ades Performance Space
New York, NY
Lukas Foss's Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird with Linda; Peggy Kampmeier, piano; and Matt Ward, percussion.
Composers of The Century Club
April 12, 2018
The Century Club
New York, NY
With Richard Wilson, piano. Songs by Joel Mandelbaum, Eric Schorr and Ben Yarmolinsky.
Felicja Blumental International Music Festival
May 10, 2018
Tel Aviv, Israel
Israeli premiere of Shulamit Ran's Moon Songs.
Yellow Barn Music Haul
May 25, 2018
Broadway & 108th Street
New York, NY
From 12pm to 3pm, many Yellow Barn musicians will perform. I will do Ursula Mamlok's Haiku Settings (with Aawa White, flutes) and Cathy Berberian's Stripsody around 1pm.
Da Capo Chamber Players
June 4, 2018
Kaufman Music Center, Merkin Concert Hall
New York, NY
I will join the Da Capo Chamber Players for Mario Davidovsky's Romancero (which I premiered in 1983 with Speculum Musicae) and Brook Taylor's Amalgam.
Resonant Bodies Festival House Concert
June 17, 2018
Private Space
Bronx, NY
I will be one of 4 singers for this Resonant Bodies event, and will perform Berio's Sequenza III.
Yellow Barn Music Festival
July 13 - August 2, 2018
The Big Barn
Putney, VT
Chamber music with colleagues at Yellow Barn. I will sing in at least five concerts between July 13 and August 2.
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
August 5 - 6, 2018
Santa Fe, NM
Willam Walton's Facade (poems of Edith Sitwell) for two reciters and flute, clarinet, saxophone, percussion, cello.
Lake Champlain Festival
August 22, 2018
Flynn Space
Burlington, VT
Luciano Berio: Sequenza III
Arnold Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire
Tactus
October 8, 2018
Manhattan School of Music, Ades Performance Space
New York, NY
Along with 3 Contemporary Performance Program students, I will sing Montague's Tigida Pipa.
Momenta Festival IV: Canciones
October 13, 2018
Tenri Cultural Institute
New York, NY
With Momenta String Quartet, I will sing Cristobal Halffter's Canciones de Al-Andalus (1988) and Villa Lobos's Suite for Voice and Violin (1923) with violinist Alex Shiozaki.
American Romantics, with Noree Chamber Soloists
October 17, 2018
Bruno Walter Auditorium, Lincoln Center
New York, NY
Roy Harris: Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight (with piano trio)
Charles Ives: Sunset (with violin and piano)
Ruth Crawford Seeger: Chinaman, Laundryman (with piano)
Virko Bailey 80th Birthday Concert
November 8, 2018
University of Nevada Las Vegas, Beam Music Center
Las Vegas, NV
With Virko at the piano, I will sing 5 of his Dickinson Settings, which I recorded years ago.