Tours & Training Programs

This season's NYFOS tour will include debuts at two venues: the unique, cube-shaped Calderwood Hall in Renzo Piano's new wing at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and the Dorothy Betts Theater, Marvin Center at George Washington University in D.C, as well as to our return to the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center in College Park, MD. NYFOS will also continue its residency with the Caramoor Vocal Rising Stars program in Katonah, NY.
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Vocal Arts DC presents NYFOS

In the Memory Palace

Saturday, October 22, 2011 at 7:30pm

Dorothy Betts Theatre, Marvin Center

George Washington University, Washington, DC

Tickets: www.vocalartsdc.org

Michelle Areyzaga, soprano; Rebecca Jo Loeb, mezzo-soprano; Paul Appleby, tenor; Andrew Garland, baritone; Steven Blier, Michael Barrett, pianists

In his song cycle The Memory Palace, Gabriel Kahane's haunting music and mordant lyrics point the listener along Kahane's own private East Coast route, an odd yet familiar-feeling detour dotted with personal landmarks and delicately remembered scenes of love and longing. A series of alternating cycles and quartets by other composers including Frank Bridge, Enrique Granados, Stephen Sondheim, and Heiter Villa-Lobos, follows the theme of desire across more distant borders of geography and imagination.

Paul Appleby appears with the cooperation of The Metropolitan Opera Lindeman Young Artist Development Program
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Clarice Smith Performaning Arts Center presents NYFOS

Manning the Canon: Songs of Gay Life

Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 8pm

Joseph & Alma Gildenhorn Recital Hall

University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Tickets: 301.405.ARTS

Scott Murphree, tenor; Jesse Blumberg, Timothy McDevitt, baritones; Matt Boehler, bass; Steven Blier, pianist

A tribute to gay composers and a celebration of the lives of gay men in songs by Poulenc, Tchaikovsky, Griffes, Bernstein, Porter, Blitzstein and many others. After last year's rapturously received performance, Anthony Tommasini wrote in The New York Times: "Such programs can easily fall into the trap of social politics and turn maudin, agenda driven and campy. This one was insightful and imaginative, touching and funny." Read the rave review >
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum presents NYFOS

A Modern Person's Guide to Hooking Up and Breaking Up

Sunday, February 12, 2012 at 1:30pm

Calderwood Performance Hall, Boston, MA

Tickets: www.gardnermuseum.org

Anne-Carolyn Bird, soprano; Liza Forrester, mezzo-soprano; Alex Mansoori, tenor; Andrew Garland, baritone; Steven Blier, pianist

In this "quirky survey of the awkwardness, pain, lust and perversity of contemporary relationships" (The New York Times), NYFOS tracks current trends in amorous attraction, just in time for Valentine's Day! Bring a date to Merkin Hall for songs of voyeurism, S&M, self-gratification—and good old-fashioned heart-to-heart love. Works by Irving Berlin, Stephen Sondheim, The Bobs, William Bolcom, Noël Coward, Jason Robert Brown, Ed Kleban, among others. Read the complete New York Times review >

This program is supported, in part, by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

"A Modern Person's Guide to Hooking Up and Breaking Up" is funded, in part, by the A.L. and Jennie L. Luria Foundation.
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New York to Paris, Paris to Paradise

Sunday, March 11, 2012 at 4pm

Music Room, Rosen House

Caramoor Center for Music and Arts, Katonah, NY

Tickets: www.tickets.caramoor.org or call 914.232.1252

Members of Caramoor's 2012 Vocal Rising Stars program with Steven Blier and Michael Barrett, pianists

New Yorkers' and Parisians' eloquent hymns to their hometowns and their dream vacations: Americans in Paris, Parisians in exotic climes. Featuring songs by Ned Rorem, Charles Trenet, Darius Milhaud, Albert Roussel, George Gershwin and others. This concert concludes NFYOS's fourth annual professional training residency at Caramoor.

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NYFOS programs are made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legistature. The NYFOS Merkin Hall concert series is made possible, in part, by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.