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Bass Matt Boehler answers our questions on his background as an actor and journey toward composition as our Artist of the Month. Matt is returning to NYFOS on later this month in Manning the Canon in Orient, NY and NYC, and next season in Lyrics by Shakespeare (single...
Composer Laura Kaminsky discusses her hit opera AS ONE, facilitating new works from women composers, and what she's been reading lately in our Artist of the Month interview. Witness the world premiere of her collaboratively created song cycle AFTER STONEWALL in NYFOS...
Baritone Efraín Solís answers our questions about self-care, favorite singers, and more in advance of three appearances with NYFOS this season: García Lorca: Magician and Muse on April 24 at Merkin Hall and Manning the Canon on June 23 in Orient, NY and on June 25 at...
Composer/performer Kate Soper talks about her favorite music to sing and the "strange and wonderful world of electronics and the voice" in advance of her NYFOS Next evening on March 28 at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music. As you are especially known for...
In late 2017, Michael and I were busy trying to finalize the 2018–2019 NYFOS season. We had settled on the W. C. Handy project, and we were thinking about celebrating a famous poet on a later evening. (That poet turned out to be García Lorca, featured in our April 24...
Baritone and Five Boroughs Music Festival co-founder Jesse Blumberg discusses his varied career and dodges our final question. Jesse will return to NYFOS’s Mainstage in Hyphenated-Americans on February 20, 2019 at Merkin Hall. You co-founded the growing arts...