Congratulations to SongFest Stern Fellow ('12 & '13) and staff pianist ('14) Dimitri Dover for his selection as a member of The Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program!

SongFest is proud to welcome composer Libby Larsen to our 2015 Faculty! Masterclass topics and dates coming soon.

This summer 2015, SongFest is proud to welcome world-renowned mezzo-soprano Ann Murray to the faculty for the first time. Equally exciting, she will be presenting a special recital with longtime musical partner and SongFest faculty member pianist Graham Johnson. More information regarding her teaching schedule and masterclass topics will be coming soon!

This summer 2015, SongFest is proud to welcome soprano Dawn Upshaw to our faculty for the first time.

Congratulations to SongFest pianist alumnus Landon Baumgard for being hired by LA Opera!

Congratulations to longtime faculty member Graham Johnson for the publication of his extraordinary work on Schubert and his songs. Available soon!

Congratulations to SongFest alumna Sarah Davis on winning 1st place in The American Prize in Vocal Performance: Friedrich & Virginia Schorr Memorial Award
PROFESSIONAL ART SONG/ORATORIO DIVISION! http://theamericanprize.blogspot.com/

New score release: SongFest faculty and extraordinary composer William Bolcom's complete concert songs to-date are now available in two volumes each for high and low voices. With first editions (incl. SongFest 2012 commission "Gettysburg"!) and first-time transpositions. A wonderful addition to any singer's and pianist's library! http://www.halleonard.com/product/viewproduct.do?itemid=117086&seriesfeature&menuid=4183&subsiteid=27

Congratulations to the Met team, the wonderful cast of "Nozze di Figaro", and in particular SongFest faculty Susanne Mentzer (Marcellina) for an exceptional review and a fantastic opening! http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/09/24/arts/music/metropolitan-opera-opens-with-le-nozze-di-figaro.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0&referrer

Congratulations to SongFest 2010 Stern Fellow Julia Bullock for a gorgeous, engaging, and fun concert in New York this past Sunday with tenor Paul Appleby, baritone Andrew Garland, and the wonderful Steven Blier at the piano. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/23/arts/music/the-voce-series-with-french-songs-at-the-schimmel-center.html?ref=arts&_r=0

To celebrate our 20th anniversary in 2016, SongFest has recorded many of our favorite pieces we commissioned with generous funding from the Sorel Organization. Look for the CD to be released this coming spring 2015!

Titles include:

John and Abigail by Ben Moore
Devon Guthrie | soprano, Theo Hoffman | baritone, Kathleen Tagg | piano

Vocalism I and II by John Harbison
Kristina Bachrach | soprano, Liza Stepanova | piano

Three Neruda Songs by Libby Larsen
Matthew Morris | baritone, Brent Funderburk | piano

Edna St. Vincent Millay by Jake Heggie
Laura Strickling | soprano, Dimitri Dover | piano

House (from Insomnia) by Tom Cipullo
Michael Anthony McGee | baritone, Liza Stepanova | piano

Gettysburg by William Bolcom
Samuel Schultz | baritone, Pierre-André Doucet | piano

Honey (from the Kitchen Songbook) by Gabriela Lena Frank
Jessica Rivera | soprano, Kelley O'Connor | mezzo-soprano, Raquel Gorgojo | piano

Donal Oge by Libby Larsen
Anne Jennifer Nash | soprano, Nathaniel Salazar | piano

River Songs by John Musto
Steven Eddy | baritone, Edward Aaron | cello, Dimitri Dover | piano

SongFest is thrilled to announce an exceptional roster of master artist teachers and pedagogues for our 2015 faculty: pianists Margo Garrett, Graham Johnson and Martin Katz, singers Amy Burton, Gwen Coleman-Detwiler, Susanne Mentzer, Lucy Shelton, and Sanford Sylvan, and composers Jake Heggie, Libby Larsen, and John Musto, and more!

Announcing SongFest's 19th season in the state-of-the-art facilities at the Colburn School in downtown Los Angeles.