Tours & Training Programs

In the 2012-2013 Season, NYFOS will return to Boston, Washington DC and College Park, MD with performances at the unique, cube-shaped Calderwood Hall in Renzo Piano's new wing at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Terrace Theater at the Kenndey Center for the Performing Arts, and the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center in College Park, MD. NYFOS will also continue its residency with the Caramoor Vocal Rising Stars program in Katonah, NY.
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum presents NYFOS

Dvořák and the American Soul

Sunday, October 14, 2012 at 1:30pm

Calderwood Performance Hall, Boston, MA

Tickets: www.gardnermuseum.org

Dina Kuznetsova, soprano; Julia Bullock, soprano; James Martin, baritone; Michael Barrett, pianist

Antonin Dvořák discovered America's voice in the Negro spirituals brought to him by Harry T. Burleigh, his African-American composition pupil at New York's National Conservatory of Music, where Dvořák taught from 1892-1895. Our program celebrates this inspiring creative exchange, its profound influence on Dvořák and his other pupils, and on the path of American music. Works by Dvořák, Burleigh, Will Marion Cook and others.

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Vocal Arts DC presents NYFOS

Mr. Gershwin Goes to Washington

Lyrics by Ira Gershwin, Music by George Gershwin and Burton Lane

Adapted by Laurence Maslon from the libretti by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind.

Monday, October 22, 2012 at 7:30pm

Terrace Theater at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Tickets: www.vocalartsdc.org

Marc Kudisch as John P. Wintergreen; Anne-Carolyn Bird as Mary Turner; Lauren Worsham as Diana Devereaux; David Garrison in seven comedic roles.
Steven Blier and Joseph Thalken, pianists; Directed by Laurence Maslon

Just in time for election fever, Mr. Gershwin gathers George and Ira's best satirical songs about politics–including “Of Thee I Sing," "Union Square," and “Strike Up the Band"–into a zany musical comedy about the presidential campaign of John P. Wintergreen. Learn more >

Mr. Gershwin Goes to Washington is funded, in part, by the A. L. and Jennie L. Luria Foundation.

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Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center presents NYFOS

Jacques Brel and Charles Trénet: Fire and Fantasy

Thursday, February 21, 2013 at 8pm

Joseph & Alma Gildenhorn Recital Hall

University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Tickets: 301.405.ARTS

Marie Lenormand, mezzo-soprano; Philippe Pierce, tenor; Bill Schimmel, accordion
Greg Utzig, banjo and guitar; Steven Blier, piano

This program celebrates two of the 20th century's greatest balladeers, the passionate social critic Jacques Brel and the endlessly imaginative Charles Trénet. Featuring both hidden gems and signature pieces, including Brel's "Ne me quitte pas" and Trénet's "La mer.”
Learn more >

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Song of the Midnight Sun

Sunday, March 10, 2013 at 4pm

Music Room, Rosen House

Caramoor Center for Music and Arts, Katonah, NY

Tickets: www.tickets.caramoor.org or call 914.232.1252

Caramoor's 2013 'Terrance W. Schwab Vocal Rising Stars'
Steven Blier and Michael Barrett, pianists

Great Scandinavian songwriters, including Grieg, Sibelius, Stenhammar, Nielsen, and Rautavaara, reveal a world of hidden loves, night-time confessions, and natural beauty. Concluding NYFOS’s fifth annual professional training residency, this concert showcases Caramoor’s Terrance W. Schwab Vocal Rising Stars with Michael Barrett and Steven Blier at the piano. Learn more >

Caramoor’s Terrance W. Schwab Vocal Rising Stars program is made possible by generous support from the Terrance W. Schwab Endowment Fund for Young Vocal Artists.

 

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All NYFOS programming is funded, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

NYFOS at Merkin Concert Hall and NYFOS Next at DiMenna Center are funded, in part, by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.