Artist Articles

She could have kept the spotlight. She had earned it. Instead, Dawn Upshaw walked into a room full of young voices and

No recording exists. No one has done it before. When Dawn Upshaw steps toward a brand-new piece of music, she steps into

Fifty-one years. Over 130 concerts in a single season. Six voices, one sound — and an ambition that shows no sign of

A child in an underserved school hears a human voice fill a room—no amplification, no production, only breath and resonance—and something shifts.

She read him first as a schoolgirl. She never stopped. Now Carolyn Choa is turning her lifelong devotion to Yasunari Kawabata into

She read him first as a schoolgirl. She never stopped. Now Carolyn Choa is turning a lifetime spent inside the pages of

Great operas are born in Milan. In Paris. In New York. This one dares to be born somewhere else entirely. Beauty and

Some symphonies are performed. Others are lived. Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 — the Resurrection — belongs unmistakably to the latter. Ahead of

There are no tenors. No baritones. No male soloists of any kind. In Symphony No. 2, Gustav Mahler entrusted the most intimate,

No costume. No set. No character to hide behind. Standing before a full orchestra in concert dress, a soloist has only one