PHILADELPHIA, PA
Louise TALMA: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Ten Blake Songs
NEW YORK, NY
Carnegie Hall @ St. John the Divine
Well-Being Concerts
Arias by J.S. BACH and Dietrich BUXTEHUDE
SANTA FE, NM
Music by BACH, VIVALDI, CORELLI, BUXTEHUDE, PACHELBEL, BARBARA STROZZI
SANTA FE, NM
Music by BACH, VIVALDI, CORELLI, BUXTEHUDE, PACHELBEL, BARBARA STROZZI
MADRID, SPAIN
Samuel COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast
NEW YORK, NY
Franz SCHUBERT: Die schöne Müllerin
Franz SCHUBERT: Der Tod und das Mädchen
Who was Johann Sebastian Bach really?
When we talk about Bach, it’s so easy to slip into big claims — greatest composer ever, universal genius, before and after Bach. And while there’s truth in all of that, this conversation reminded me how…
…In a moment when despair can feel like the easiest response, it feels vital to resist it. My hope is to take action through art. To use it as a means of reflection, connection, and bridge-building, and to help keep a flame of hope alive as we wander…
...I am simply not someone who goes from sixty to zero easily. I find these abrupt descents into slowness jarring, and my mind struggles to make sense of them...
…This painful juggling act has become a hallmark of modern life for anyone who is “lucky” enough to accompany their parents along this final path…
…Last week’s Thanksgiving holiday was chaotic and delicious in all the ways it’s supposed be. Noah and I hosted roughly 25 friends and family members, with multiple generations gathered (and running around) the dinner table…
I filmed and produced a new short documentary — Rebecca Clarke: Her Legacy Revealed — which premieres today on YouTube.
“Nicholas Phan brought his peerless lyric tenor to bear on Handel’s music in a nuanced, dramatically subdued but powerful performance. He adorned ‘Comfort ye’…”
“…American tenor Nicholas Phan lent his bright, lyric instrument and an expressive stillness to a handful of early German songs and brought an understated sensuality to The Cherry-Blossom Wand (Clarke once described the dividing line between music and sex as “so tenuous as to be almost non-existent”)...”
“Rich, radiant performances bring a forgotten voice to life
Rebecca Clarke’s songs have been edging on to the radar recently, but this recording, led by the mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately, tenor Nicholas Phan and pianist Anna Tilbrook, is the first time they have all been assembled together…”
100 years ago, one of the best viola players of her generation – Rebecca Clarke – gave a sold-out concert at London’s Wigmore Hall. All of the music on the programme she had written herself. A new album of her works and a series of events will mark the centenery. Tenor Nicholas Phan and writer and broadcaster Leah Broad discuss.
“Nicholas Phan, in the role of Yonas, addresses with rare musical intelligence a part of extraordinary psychological complexity. His voice, of clear lyricism and finely-controlled vibrato, moves between innocence and despair, never giving in to pathos.“
– GB Opera
RALEIGH, NC
Carl ORFF: Carmina Burana