The National Endowment for the Arts has approved a $30,000 Grants for Arts Projects award for “Freedom on the Move: Songs in Flight,” a project envisioned and led by art song organization Sparks & Wiry Cries for the commission of two world premieres and a subsequent performance tour in 2023.

“Early Music Vancouver’s latest streamcast is a lieder recital with a difference: Music by composers from the end of the 19th century, with a piano more or less contemporary with the songs. Good enough reason to give a listen; add the talents of baritone Tyler Duncan and pianist Erika Switzer, and you have a program of considerable appeal.” - David Gordon Duke

Composer Jeffrey Ryan has won first prize in the National Association of Teachers of Singing 2021 Art Song Composition Award for his work, “Everything Already Lost.” This work was commissioned and premiered by Erika Switzer, piano, and Tyler Duncan, baritone.

From January 11 - 22, 2021, the New York-based global art song platform Sparks & Wiry Cries will present their flagship songSLAM Festival with twelve days of song.

After over 25 years of collaboration, baritone Tyler Duncan and pianist Erika Switzer released their debut album, "English Songs à la française," on October 16th, 2020. The album features English texts set to music by French composers, and includes world premiere recordings by Darius Milhaud.

“The Brooklyn Art Song Society’s 2020/21 season was planned long before lockdown. Cancelling was never an option, so BASS, like many other performing arts organizations, has gone digital. Die schöne Müllerin, performed by baritone Tyler Duncan and pianist Erika Switzer, was the first of five concerts that it will present celebrating Franz Schubert.”