Annual Recital
Awardees Recital: Amy Shoremount-Obra, soprano, and Cameron Schutza, tenor. Cameron Schutza, tenor
Awardees Recital: Amy Shoremount-Obra, soprano, and Cameron Schutza, tenor. Cameron Schutza, tenor
40th anniversary recital, reminiscences of Kit Gill (WSNY Vice President, d.2017), and gala reception/buffet.
Clay Hilley, tenor, and Abdiel Vázquez, piano.
Vocal showcase: Parsifal, with commentary, joint event with Met Opera Guild. WSNY grantees: Leah Crowne, Mauricio Trejo, John Dominick III.
Collaboration with Metropolitan Opera Guild, featuring six WSNY grantees.
Suzanne Hendrix, mezzo (WSNY?Robert Lauch Endowed Fund awardee), and Carami Hilaire, soprano (WSNY?awardee), with reception.
Jeffrey Swann, pianist and lecturer: "New Year's Concert."
Helena Brown, soprano (WSNY awardee), and Bradley Moore, piano.
Patrick Allen, organ. Recital of organ arrangements of Wagner excerpts.
Scenes from Götterdämmerung and Franz Schubert: Sonata in B flat major, D.960
In partnership with the Metropolitan Opera Guild, a vocal showcase featuring excerpts from Wagner's Lohengrin. Lohengrin is the third opera of Wagner’s middle period, and it continues a style of tonality that the composer had developed earlier in Tannhäuser. Lohengrin's musical style also anticipates Wagner’s future leitmotif technique and, as with all of his operas […]
Our Annual Recital featured mezzo-soprano Shanley Horvitz accompanied by pianist Craig Ketter in a selection of pieces by Wagner (including the Wesendonck Lieder), Ravel, Dvořák, and Janáček. Ms. Horvitz was the WSNY's 2022 Lauch awardee and has been reviewed "to spin lovely, warm legato phrases, replete with ease of emission, dynamic variety, elegance, yet holding […]