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17 July 2009 Brooklyn, NY
Galapagos Art Space
8:00pm
American Opera Projects and Opera on Tap return to Galapagos Art Space for the second in this ongoing series that brings new opera works to one of Brooklyn's most innovative art venues.
Gilda Lyons' Songs from the F Train commissioned by American Opera Projects, Fort Greene Park Conservancy and The Walt Whitman Project.
Nicole Mitchell, voice
Piano, Christopher Berg Galapagos Art Space 16 Main Street (corner of Water St.)
Brooklyn, NY
ADMISSION: $20 / $15 Students and seniors
Purchase online: www.galapagosartspace.com 14 July 2009
Wintergreen, Virginia
7:30 pm
Wintergreen Summer Music Festival and Academy
The Wintergreen Chamber Players with soprano Carolyn Worra present music by Hagen, Borzoni, Smith, Lyons, Carter and Mendelssohn.
Gilda Lyons: 'An Even Song' from Songs of Lament and Praise
* Text attributed to Saint Patrick (12th century) Caroline Worra, soprano
Tracy Cowden, piano Adult $25, Ages 10-17 $10, Under 10 Free 12 July 2009
Fort Greene, Brooklyn
1:00 PM
Walt Whitman's Fort Greene Park
A stroll sponsored by Fort Greene Park Conservancy, The Walt Whitman Project, Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership, and American Opera Projects. Featuring Gilda Lyons' The Wallabout Martyrs, commissioned by AOP and The Walt Whitman Project, performed by Cameron Smith.
Meet at the Visitors Center, Top of the Hill, Fort Greene Park Enter at Myrtle Avenue, Washington Park, or DeKalb Avenue, Brooklyn FREE event / rain or shine Information & Reservations (limited to 25 people): 718-391-8824 6-19 July 2009
Wintergreen, Virginia
Wintergreen Summer Music Festival and Academy
Gilda Lyons, Visiting Artist.
Wintergreen Performing Arts presents the Wintergreen Summer Music Festival and Academy. The 2009 Wintergreen Summer Music Festival and Academy will take place from July 6-August 2, 2009 at the Wintergreen Resort in Wintergreen, Virginia.
June 21, 2009
Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Make Music New York
3:00pm
The premiere of Gilda Lyons' "Songs from the F Train", commissioned by American Opera Projects, Fort Greene Park Conservancy and The Walt Whitman Project.
Nicole Mitchell, mezzo soprano
Tom Bagwell, pianist
Featuring other Lyons' works commissioned by the consortium:
"The Wallabout Martyrs"
performed by Cameron Smith
"Old Walt"
Amy Van Roekel, soprano
Adrienne Danrich, soprano
Sean Anderson, baritone
8 June 2009
New York City
8:30 pm
Colette's Heirlooms, on poems by Colette Inez
for two voices
Gilda Lyons, voice
Elaine Valby, voice
Composers Collaborative: Serial Underground
"the subversive nightclub series" (Time Out NY) at the Cornelia Street Cafe, NYC The Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street (betw. 6th and 7th Ave), NYC $15 general admission / $10 students & seniors
1 May 2009
New York City
8:00 pm
Musical Heirlooms
premieres for two voices and piano
Gilda Lyons, voice
Elaine Valby, voice
Jocelyn Dueck, piano
The Phoenix Concerts
of St. Matthew & St. Timothy
26 West 84th Street, NYC 10024
(between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue)
$10 donation at the door. FREE admission with student I.D.
18 April 2009
Hudson, NY
Hudson Opera House
8:00 pm
Core members of Manhattan's The Phoenix Concerts join together with Hudson Opera House for an evening of contemporary chamber works. Internationally noted composers Daron Hagen (piano), Paula Kimper (guitar), and Gilda Lyons (voice) perform their own recent works with the powerfully soulful vocalist Elaine Valby. $15, $12 HOH members.
31 March 2009
Worldwide
SHINING BROW, Daron Aric Hagen (complete opera) receives worldwide release on the Naxos label.
Buffalo Philharmonic (JoAnn Falletta) Gilda Lyons, Maid/Townswoman "Gilda Lyons's clear soprano compels admiration." - David Shengold, Opera, UK, July, 2009 6 March 2009
New York City
8:00 pm
Gilda Lyons performs "Teach Yourself to Fly", Sonic Meditation I by Pauline Oliveros with Eric Moe, piano, and Roger Zahab, violin.
minimal minimal
chamber works
works by Hill, Lang, Oliveros, Torke
premières by Baxter, Czubay, Malmquist
Erika Rauer, voice
Jocelyn Dueck, piano
Eric Moe, piano
Roger Zahab, violin
Gilda Lyons, voice
The Phoenix Concerts
of St. Matthew & St. Timothy
26 West 84th Street, NYC 10024
(between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue)
$10 donation at the door. FREE admission with student I.D.
19 December 2008 New York City
8:00 pm
Light & Shadow
Ruth Cunningham in concert
The premiere of Gilda Lyons' "Prayer" for three voices on text by Elizabeth Cunningham.
Ruth Cunningham, voice, harp and flute
Gilda Lyons, voice
Elaine Valby, voice
The Phoenix Concerts
of St. Matthew & St. Timothy
26 West 84th Street, NYC 10024
(between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue)
$10 donation at the door. FREE admission with student I.D.
15 November 2008 Brooklyn, NY
Fort Greene Park
Lyons' The Wallabout Martyrs, commissioned by American Opera Projects in 2006, is performed in arrangement for chorus and chamber players by Mark Shapiro, Conductor, as part of the Prison Ships Martyrs Memorial Centennial Celebration.
October 14 2008 Minneapolis, MN
2:30 pm
Lecture/Performance at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
School of Music, Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall
Two Sides Sounding performs excerpts from Gilda Lyons' Songs of Lament and Praise, (commissioned by the duo in 2007) in their lecture and performance for the voice students and faculty of the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
13 & 14 October 2008
Minneapolis & Saint Paul, MN
7:30 pm
Two Sides Sounding with Nautilus Music-Theater
Rough Cuts
Two Sides Sounding performs excerpts from Gilda Lyons' Songs of Lament and Praise, (commissioned by the duo in 2007), joining the artists of Nautilus Music-Theater, directed by Ben Krywosz, for two concerts of new works.
Tickets are $5 at the door.
Monday October 13th, at Nautilus: 308 Prince St #250, St Paul, MN.
Tuesday October 14th, at the Ritz Theater, 345 13th Ave NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413
10 October 2008 Saint Paul, MN
6:00 - 10:00 pm
Two Sides Sounding with Nautilus Music-Theater
Art Crawl
Two Sides Sounding performs excerpts from Gilda Lyons' Songs of Lament and Praise, (commissioned by the duo in 2007) in the Twin Cities' Art Crawl, a tour of open art studios throughout the Twin Cities interspersed with live performances.
Admission is free.
At Nautilus: 308 Prince St #250, St Paul MN.
08-14 October 2008 Yakima, WA
Seasons Music Festival
Gilda Lyons serves as Resident Artist for the 2008 Seasons Music Festival.
7 October 2008 Tarrytown, NY
Pocantico Hills / Kykuit
7:00 pm
American Opera Projects premieres its most recent Lyons commission: Old Walt, for three solo voices.
Her The Wallabout Martyrs, for solo voice, commissioned by AOP in 2006, will also be performed.
voice: Donna Smith, Adrienne Danrich, Matthew Curran
music direction: Kelly Horsted
01 June 2008 New York City Sundays at Five concert series
5:00PM
Seraphim
Music for Voices and Cello
Dowland/Lyons - Essex Songs (16th c. /2007)
Daron Hagen - Three Songs (2008)
Eric Moe - Heavenly Labials (2007)+
Faye-Ellen Silverman - Manhattan Fixation (2007)+
+The Phoenix Commissions
Gilda Lyons, voice
Elaine Valby, voice
Robert La Rue, cello
Sundays at Five concert series
Hudson View Gardens
Pinehurst Ave. & 183rd St.
30 May 2008 New York City 8:00 PM Seraphim
Music for Voices and Cello
Dowland/Lyons - Essex Songs (16th c. /2007)
Daron Hagen - Three Songs (2008)*
Eric Moe - Heavenly Labials (2007)* +
Faye-Ellen Silverman - Manhattan Fixation (2007)* +
*World Premiere
+The Phoenix Commissions
Gilda Lyons, voice
Elaine Valby, voice
Robert La Rue, cello
The Phoenix Concerts
of St. Matthew & St. Timothy 26 West 84th Street, 07 May 2008 New York City Friends & Enemies of New Music
Christ & St. Stephen's Church
122 West 69th Street between Columbus & Amsterdam, 8:00 pm
TWO SIDES SOUNDING: Eleanor Taylor, soprano, and Jocelyn Dueck, piano
perform Gilda Lyons' No Fame, No Trace.
14 April 2008
New York City ComposersCollaborative Inc. - Serial Underground
The Cornelia Street Café 29 Cornelia Street New York, NY 10014 SERAPHIM - Gilda Lyons, voice, Elaine Valby, voice, and Robert La Rue, cello - joins ComposersCollaborative Inc. for its Serial Underground series.
16 February 2008 Milwaukee, WI The Milwaukee Choral Artists premiere a new work by Gilda Lyons, commissioned by the ensemble in celebration of its Tenth Anniversary, to be recorded for release in fall of 2008. 07 December 2007 New York City Wayfaring Strangers piano trios by Daron Hagen and the spirituals that inspired them
Finisterra Piano Trio:
Kwan Bin Park, violin
Kevin Krentz, cello
Tanya Stambuk, piano
with:
Gilda Lyons, voice
Elaine Valby, voice
The Phoenix Concerts of St. Matthew & St. Timothy 26 West 84th Street, 8:00 PM 6 November 2007
New York City The Century Association
The Century Association presents The Phoenix Players in a performance of Daron Hagen's The Antient Concert - a 'dramatic recital in one act' - staged by the composer; with libretto by Paul Muldoon. James Demler, baritone
Elem Eley, baritone Elaine Valby, mezzo Gilda Lyons, soprano Jocelyn Dueck, piano 4 November 2007 South Hadley, MA Mount Holyoke College Orchestra
Eric Benjamin, Conductor The Mount Holyoke College Orchestra performs Gilda Lyons' Monarch as the grand finale of their "The Chronological Concert".
20 October 2007 South Hadley, MA Mount Holyoke College Orchestra
Eric Benjamin, Conductor The Mount Holyoke College Orchestra performs Gilda Lyons' Monarch. 13 October 2007 Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Conservatory of Music
58 7th Avenue in Park Slope, 8:00 PM TWO SIDES SOUNDING, Eleanor Taylor, soprano, and Jocelyn Dueck, piano, perform Gilda Lyons' Songs of Lament and Praise, commissioned by the duo in 2007, on the New Music Collective at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. 08 October 2007 New York City ComposersCollaborative Inc. - Serial Underground
The Cornelia Street Café 29 Cornelia Street New York, NY 10014 SERAPHIM - Gilda Lyons, voice, Elaine Valby, voice, and Robert La Rue, cello - joins ComposersCollaborative Inc. for its Serial Underground series. 05 October 2007 New York City Witches, Ghosts and Fairy Tales
music for voice and piano
The premiere of Gilda Lyons' Phantoms and Visitations - a new cycle commissioned by and written for Paul Sperry.
Paul Sperry, tenor
Elaine Valby, mezzo
Jocelyn Dueck, piano
The Phoenix Concerts
of St. Matthew & St. Timothy 26 West 84th Street, 8:00 PM 10 September 2007 New York City Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street New York, NY 10011 SERAPHIM - Gilda Lyons, voice, Elaine Valby, voice, and Robert La Rue, cello - performs selected works commissioned by the ensemble for the 07-08 season.
31 August 2007 New York City The Cornelia Street Café
29 Cornelia Street New York, NY 10014 SERAPHIM - Gilda Lyons, voice, Elaine Valby, voice, and Robert La Rue, cello - performs on Cornelia Street's program of "Opera and Song Cycles". July - August 2007 Amherst, Virginia
Gilda Lyons - Resident Artist at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. June 2007 New York City
Gilda Lyons receives The ASCAP Foundation's Charles Kingsford Fund Commission. 16 June 2007 New York City Symphony Space
Peter Sharp Theater 2537 Broadway at 95th Street New York, NY 10025, 7:00-8:00 PM Bloomsday on Broadway XXVI presents the professional American concert premiere of Daron Hagen's The Antient Concert - a 'dramatic recital in one act' - with libretto by Paul Muldoon.
James Demler, baritone Elem Eley, baritone Elaine Valby, mezzo Gilda Lyons, soprano Jocelyn Dueck, piano 18 May 2007 New York City The world premiere of Slavko Krstic's song cycle for soprano and piano: Sphinxes Gilda Lyons, voice
Marc Peloquin, piano St. Matthew & St. Timothy 26 West 84th Street, 7:30 PM 27 April 2007 New York City SERAPHIM, Gilda Lyons, voice, Elaine Valby, voice, and Robert La Rue, cello, return to The Phoenix Concerts to premiere new works by composers Hayes Biggs and Paula M. Kimper, commissioned by the trio for the 2006/07 season. The Phoenix Concerts of St. Matthew & St. Timothy 26 West 84th Street, 8:00 PM 30, 31 March 2007 Brooklyn, NY American Opera Projects 138 South Oxford Street, 8:00 PM Gilda Lyons' one act opera The Walled-Up Wife receives its concert premiere, presented by American Opera Projects on the FIRST CHANCE series.
About The Walled-Up Wife An opera in one act, The Walled-Up Wife sets an ancient tale of foundation sacrifice. As three royal brothers attempt to build a citadel, their efforts fail until a high priest reveals that, for the citadel to stand, one of their wives must be immured within it. After a series of betrayals, the youngest bride is tricked into delivering herself to the worksite where she is built into the foundation. She sings a lullaby to her infant son as the final bricks bind her to her fate. For mroe information, click here. Music Direction: Steven Osgood Pianist: Jocelyn Dueck Soprano: Ruth Cunningham Mezzo: Elaine Valby Tenor: Daniel Neer 13 March 2007 New York City Saint Peter's Church
619 Lexington Ave. at 54th Street TWO SIDES SOUNDING, Eleanor Taylor, soprano, and Jocelyn Dueck, piano, premiere Gilda Lyons' Songs of Lament and Praise, commissioned by the duo in 2007. 1,2,3 March 2007 New York City Dance New Amsterdam
280 Broadway, 2nd fl. (at Chambers St.) Songs for Solo Dance and Voice Gilda Lyons - voice Elaine Valby - voice Paula M. Kimper - guitar Amy Pivar - dance/choreography Thursday, March 1 at 8:00 PM
Friday, March 2 at 8:00 PM Saturday, March 3 at 8:00 PM 20 February 2007 New York City The Cutting Room
19 West 24th Street SWEET PLANTAIN performers newly commissioned works, including Gilda Lyons' Bone Needles II for string quartet. 19 February 2007 Pittsburgh, PA Bellefield Auditorium Gilda Lyons performs the role of Pamela in the concert premiere of the orchestral version of Daron Hagen's opera Broken Pieces with the Music on the Edge Chamber Orchestra conducted by Roger Zahab. 12 February 2007 Pittsburgh, PA
Bellefield Auditorium University of Pittsburgh faculty member and violinist Roger Zahab performs Gilda Lyons' Owl Light as part of a 'Music Mondays at Bellefield Hall' concert including works by Corelli, Paganini, Zahab, and others. 15 December 2006 New York City The Phoenix Concerts
of St. Matthew & St. Timothy 26 West 84th Street, 8:00 PM Silent Night A Suite of Carols for Voices and Cello
by Daron Hagen Gilda Lyons, soprano Elaine Valby, mezzo-soprano Robert Frankenberry, tenor Jim Gregory, bass Robert La Rue, cello conducted by the composer 18 November 2006 Bronx, NY Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance
841 Barretto Street 2nd Floor (718) 842-5223 Gilda Lyons performs with mezzo soprano Elaine Valby, composer / guitarist Paula Kimper, and dancer / choreographer Amy Pivar (Freda Rosen, director).
4, 5 November 2006 Buffalo, NY Buffalo Philharmonic, JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Kleinhans Music Hall
3 Symphony Circle Saturday, November 4th at 8:00 PM
Sunday, November 5th at 2:30 PM Gilda Lyons sings the role of the Maid and Townswoman in the Buffalo Philharmonic's semi-staged concert production of Daron Hagen's opera Shining Brow. 29 September 2006
New York City The Phoenix Concerts
of St. Matthew & St. Timothy 26 West 84th Street, 8:00 PM Thy Lucifer - by Gilda Lyons receives its world premiere, performed by Daniel Gundlach, countertenor, Mark Crayton, countertenor, and James Janssen, pianist. 22, 23 September 2006 Brooklyn, NY American Opera Projects
138 South Oxford Street, 7:30 PM Excerpts from Gilda Lyons' one act opera The Walled-Up Wife are presented in American Opera Projects' SIX SCENES 2006, the final presentations of compositions developed during this season's Composers & the Voice Series. July 2006 Amherst, Virginia
Gilda Lyons - Resident Artist at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. 20 May 2006 Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Conservatory of Music 58 7th Avenue in Park Slope, 7:00 PM Soprano Eleanor Taylor and pianist Jocelyn Dueck perform A Rocking Hymn and No Fame, No Trace by Gilda Lyons on the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music's New Music Collective Concert.
19, 20 May 2006
Brooklyn, NY American Opera Projects
138 South Oxford Street American Opera Projects presents new works by composers featured in the 2005-2006 Composers and the Voice Series: James Borchers, David Claman, Conrad Cummings, Jeff Grace, Hannah Lash, and Gilda Lyons. 18 May 2006
American Opera Projects premieres Gilda Lyons' The Wallabout Martyrs. Robert Mack, tenor. On Thursday, May 18 at 12PM at Brooklyn's Fort Greene Park a groundbreaking ceremony for the restoration of the historic Prison Ship Martyrs Monument will feature the premiere of the song The Wallabout Martyrs by composer Gilda Lyons. Commissioned by American Opera Projects and the Walt Whitman Project, The Wallabout Martyrs sets Walt Whitman's writings about the British prison ships where thousands of American patriots died during the American Revolution. The a cappella composition will be performed by tenor Robert Mack. Both Ms. Lyons and Mr. Mack are participants in this season's Composers & the Voice program. The event will also feature a brief presentation by Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner David McCullough, author of 1776.
14 May 2006 New York City Nicholas Roerich Museum
319 West 107th Street, 5:00 PM Charms and Blessings - Gilda Lyons
Gilda Lyons, voice Ann Roggen, viola 12 May 2006 New York City Church of St. Matthew & St. Timothy
26 West 84th Street, 8:00 PM Owl-Light - Gilda Lyons Roger Zahab, violin 21, 22, 23 April 2006 New York City Dance New Amsterdam 280 Broadway, 2nd fl. (at Chambers St.) OBject/obJECT Showcase On Her Decision to Stop Wearing Clothes - Paula Kimper Bone Needles - Gilda Lyons Gilda Lyons - voice Elaine Valby - voice Paula M. Kimper - guitar Amy Pivar - dance/choreography Freda Rosen - direction Friday, April 21 at 8:00 PM
Saturday, April 22 at 8:00 PM Sunday, April 23 at 2:00 PM 15 January 2006 Rhinebeck, NY Church of the Messiah 6436 Montgomery Street, 4:00 PM Sappho Songs - Daron Hagen; 10 of 10,000 - Paula M. Kimper; Incantations - Gilda Lyons performed by Gilda Lyons, voice; Elaine Valby, voice; Robert LaRue, cello. 16 December 2005 New York City Church of St. Matthew & St. Timothy
26 West 84th Street, 8:00 PM Songs for Voices and Chamber Ensemble A Concert of Premieres No Fame, No Trace - Gilda Lyons; as long as forever is - Frank J. Oteri; Intimate Lines - Roger Zahab; and songs by Tom Cipullo, David Del Tredici, Anne LeBaron, Ned Rorem and others performed by Gilda Lyons, soprano; Rob Frankenberry, tenor; Roger Zahab, violin; Daron Hagen, piano; and Baroque Instrument Players. 29 October 2005 Bowling Green, Ohio The Moore Musical Arts Center; Bryan Recital Hall
Presented by the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music 26th Annual New Music and Art Festival Bowling Green State University, 2:00 PM Three Robes by Gilda Lyons Song Cycle on Poems of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill 21 October 2005 New York City Church of St. Matthew & St. Timothy
26 West 84th Street, 8:00 PM An Evening of Songs by Daron Hagen Phantoms of Myself (Susan Griffin); Letting Go (American poets); Broken Pieces (Barbara Grecki) performed by Gilda Lyons, soprano; Robert Frankenberry, tenor; Jocelyn Dueck, piano.
23 September 2005 New York City Church of St. Matthew & St. Timothy; 26 West 84th Street; 8:00 PM
Songs for Two Voices and Cello A Concert of World Premieres Sappho Songs - Daron Hagen; 10 of 10,000 - Paula M. Kimper; Incantations - Gilda Lyons performed by Gilda Lyons, voice; Elaine Valby, voice; Robert LaRue, cello.
8 September 2005 New York City Christ & St. Stephen's Episcopal Church
120 West 69th Street; 1:00 PM Excerpts from The Bridge of San Luis Rey, an opera by Paula M. Kimper based on the novel by Thornton Wilder Presented by David S. McIntosh for the students of Capgemini Gilda Lyons performs the role of Camila.
11 June 2005 Fire Island, New York
Elaine Valby performs Lyons' Seven Times (from A Small Handful, E.C. Schirmer) as part of a dance / song collaboration with choreographer dancer Amy Pivar. Photo by Lorraine Michels.
20 May 2005 Brooklyn, New York Brooklyn Conservatory of Music
Gilda creates the role of Pamela in the East Coast premiere of Daron Hagen's one act opera Broken Pieces at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. Robert Frankenberry plays Antonio; the accompanist is Jocelyn Dueck. 21 February 2005 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Roger Zahab premieres the new Lyons composition for solo violin Owl-Light in recital at Bellefield Concert Hall at 8 PM. Owl-light, known also as "Blindman's Holiday" and to the French as Entre chien et loup (Between dog and wolf), is the hour of dusk when it is too dark to work but still too bright to light candles. It is the time of day when shadow and haze blur the world around us. A new light, albeit short lived, is born of the union of day and night. Owl-Light, for solo violin, plays with this space between opposites setting quick gestures against sustained tones, pizzicato phrases against legato lines, and airy bowings against the snap pizz.
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