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BREATH THAT TETHERS US: Recital for unaccompanied voice
Stephanie Lamprea, soprano
“It is easy, you might say, to overlook something that is invisible. We do not commonly notice our breathing, although it enables all that we do notice. And we do not commonly see the air, since it is that through which we see everything else... We stopped feeling for the invisible qualities that reside in particular places. We quit tasting the breeze, stopped noticing the steady gift of our breath, and generally forgot the air.” (David Abram)
This program of contemporary music for unaccompanied soprano reconnects voice and atmosphere through breath that lifts, paints, and tethers us. In an array of vocal timbres and extended techniques, the listener is met with vulnerable interpretations of text, soaring vocalises, and mercurial acrobatics abound. Tech requirements: none
Stephanie Lamprea, soprano
“It is easy, you might say, to overlook something that is invisible. We do not commonly notice our breathing, although it enables all that we do notice. And we do not commonly see the air, since it is that through which we see everything else... We stopped feeling for the invisible qualities that reside in particular places. We quit tasting the breeze, stopped noticing the steady gift of our breath, and generally forgot the air.” (David Abram)
This program of contemporary music for unaccompanied soprano reconnects voice and atmosphere through breath that lifts, paints, and tethers us. In an array of vocal timbres and extended techniques, the listener is met with vulnerable interpretations of text, soaring vocalises, and mercurial acrobatics abound. Tech requirements: none
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PROGRAM
Gilda Lyons: A Manual for the Use of Wings (2017) Lesley Mok: In Case of Complete Reversal (2020) Josiah Catalan: Sage's Garden (2021) Luciano Berio: Sequenza III (1965) Jason Eckardt: Populus Tremuloides: "Quaking Aspen" (2021) James May: Flowers for Eurydice (2018) Aileen Sweeney: Luminous Tree (2021) Rebecca Saunders: O (2017) |
RECITAL PROGRAMS FOR VOICE AND ELECTRONICS
Stephanie Lamprea, soprano and electronics
Stephanie Lamprea, soprano and electronics
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WOMEN TAKE THE FLOOR
Rebecca Saunders - O (2017) Erin Thomson - Duthchas (2022) Melissa Rankin - The birds: they stare at me from the window (2022) Emily Doolittle - Social sounds from whales at night (2007) Katherine Balch - these intervals matter (2020) Chaya Czernowin - Adiantum Capillus-Veneris I (2015) Hannah Selin - Mid-day (2021) Tech requirements: Two speakers / access to PA system, microphone, microphone stand, microphone and speaker cables, laptop stand, music stand, small table. Optional tech: Interface (artist can also provide this), access to screen projector for optional visuals in performance. |
LOVE FROM AFAR
Nuria Gimenez Comas - No more words (2015) Mario Mora - Vox (2017) Kaija Saariaho - Lonh (1996) Kurt Rohde - Water Lilies Suite (2020-22) Tech requirements: Two speakers / access to PA system, microphone, microphone stand, microphone and speaker cables, laptop stand, music stand, small table. Optional tech: Interface (artist can also provide this.), access to screen projector for optional visuals in performance. NOTE: Additional electronic musician needed for this performance. |
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GEORGE APERGHIS: 14 RECITATIONS
Stephanie Lamprea, soprano
14 Récitations (1977-78) is a concert-length avant-garde song cycle for unaccompanied female voice which set phonemes and vocal sounds with atonality, extended vocal techniques, puzzles, and repetitions. Throughout the opus, the listener witnesses a woman attempting in many ways to speak, but not being understood, and thus trapped in her trauma. “We see and hear a singer realizing a musical score, but at the same time we witness somebody who can’t speak properly…” Aperghis writes. “That is the human dimension of this work. We see people in their daily life struggle, people who are not very healthy, people with trouble expressing themselves - elusive mental portraits en miniature.” The resulting work is an ode to the dynamism and humanity of the voice, but it is also a manifestation of the woman’s complex journey of personal authenticity in a patriarchal world.
Tech requirements: none (for choreographed performance, large floor space encouraged)
Stephanie Lamprea, soprano
14 Récitations (1977-78) is a concert-length avant-garde song cycle for unaccompanied female voice which set phonemes and vocal sounds with atonality, extended vocal techniques, puzzles, and repetitions. Throughout the opus, the listener witnesses a woman attempting in many ways to speak, but not being understood, and thus trapped in her trauma. “We see and hear a singer realizing a musical score, but at the same time we witness somebody who can’t speak properly…” Aperghis writes. “That is the human dimension of this work. We see people in their daily life struggle, people who are not very healthy, people with trouble expressing themselves - elusive mental portraits en miniature.” The resulting work is an ode to the dynamism and humanity of the voice, but it is also a manifestation of the woman’s complex journey of personal authenticity in a patriarchal world.
Tech requirements: none (for choreographed performance, large floor space encouraged)
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RECITAL PROGRAMS FOR VOICE AND PIANO
Tech requirements: One grand piano, one music stand
Tech requirements: One grand piano, one music stand
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MOMENTS OF CHANGE
Richard Strauss - Mädchenblumen, op. 22 (1886-88) Claude Debussy - Quatre chansons de jeunesse (1881-84) Elisenda Fábregas - Moments of Change (2004) George Crumb - Apparition (1979) |
CANCIONES DE AGUA Y SOMBRAS
Joaquín Turina - Poema en forma de canciones, op. 19 (1923) Alba Potes - Siete Haiku (1994) Tania León - Atwood Songs (2007) J Diaz - Señora de las Sombras (2022) Gabriela Ortiz - Canciones De Agua (2013) |
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