2025 COLLABORATIVE WORKS FESTIVAL
SONGS OF WAR & PEACE
ABOUT
The 2025 Collaborative Works Festival explores the ways composers and poets have responded to conflict and aspired toward peace. Throughout history, periods of violence and conflict have birthed some of the most important art, and song is no exception.
PROGRAM I
WAR
A program exploring the ways in which composers and poets have reacted to the vicissitudes of war.
ARTISTS
Raquel González, soprano | Zoie Reams, mezzo-soprano | Nicholas Phan, tenor | Leroy Davis & Schyler Vargas, baritones | Mark Almond, horn | Kuang-Hao Huang, piano
PROGRAM
works by
SAMUEL BARBER
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
NADIA BOULANGER
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
HENRI DUPARC
MOHAMMED FAIROUZ
CHARLES IVES
GUSTAV MAHLER
NICO MUHLY
WILFIRD SANDERSON
ROBERT SCHUMANN
ERROLLYN WALLEN
KURT WEILL
PROGRAM II:
PEACE
A program examining the aftermath of war and the various definitions and experiences of “finding peace”.
ARTISTS
Vanessa Becerra, soprano | Sophia Maekawa, mezzo-soprano | Nicholas Phan & Eric Ferring, tenors | Evan Bravos, baritone | Matthew Duvall, vibraphone | Lisa Kaplan, piano
PROGRAM
Works by
J. S. BACH
AMY BEACH
AARON COPLAND
VIET CUONG
GERALD FINZI
DAMIEN GETER
IVOR GURNEY
JAKE HEGGIE
GUSTAV MAHLER
OLIVIER MESSIAEN
MATTHEW RECIO
FRANZ SCHUBERT
ERROLLYN WALLEN
HUGO WOLF