Work by Berlioz, Wagner, and a variety of American composers
with soprano Paulina Swierczek
presented by Concerts in the Village
At the German Kabarett
with mezzo-soprano Clara Osowski and baritone Tyler Duncan
With mezzo-soprano Clara Osowski
featuring works by Madeleine Dring, Ethyl Smyth, Nadia Boulanger, and Libby Larsen
presented by Her Art in Song
With soprano Jardena Gertler-Jaffe
featuring works by Alma Mahler, Cecilia Livingston, Maria Schneider, and Adela Maddison
Works by Tchaikovsky, Fauré and Day-Lewis
with “Hudson Muse” piano trio: violinist Helena Baillie, cellist Anita Balázs, pianist Erika Switzer
Chapel Restoration
With soprano Katherine Jolly
presenting works by Gwyneth Walker, Dominick DiOrio, and Evan Mack
Works by Schubert, Fauré, and Morlock
with cellist Bridget MacRae
Klavierwerkstatt
Works by Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, and Ralph Vaughan-Williams
with baritone Günter Papandell
The Collaborative Piano Institute is proud to announce songSPARKS, led by Sparks & Wiry Cries’ co-founders Martha Guth and Erika Switzer. For nine days in June at the University of Michigan, songSPARKS will gather established and emerging composers alongside song performers to develop and share new works through dialogue, workshop, and world premiere performances showcasing the work of our accepted applicants.
Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin
with baritone Tyler Duncan
Whidby Island Music Festival
Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin
with baritone Tyler Duncan
on a McNulty-Graf piano
Celebrating Wolfgang Amadé Mozart
Bard Music Festival
Program One: Kurtág And the Lieder Tradition
Schubert Lieder with baritone Benjamin Appl
as part of the Kurtág Festival
Works for Cello and Piano by Gabriel Fauré
with cellist Raman Ramakrishnan
White Plains, NY
The 10th Annual NYC songSLAM
presented as part of the sparksLIVE Festival at Symphony Space
Presenting Rebecca Hass with Lucy Shelton, Kamala Sankaram, and Kate Morton
with pianist Erika Switzer
at the 2026 sparksLIVE Festival at Symphony Space
Presenting Stephanie Blythe and Ryan McCullough
at the 2026 sparksLIVE Festival at Symphony Space
Songs by Beethoven, Poulenc, and Britten
with tenor Eric Finbarr Carey
Silent awakening
Soprano Martha Guth, pianist Erika Switzer & cellist Anna Menzies
Oxford International Song Festival
Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin
with baritone Tyler Duncan
Brooklyn Art Song Society
Silent Awakening
Soprano Martha Guth, pianist Erika Switzer, cellist Raman Ramakrishnan
Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin
Baritone Tyler Duncan, pianist Erika Switzer
with soprano Robyn Driedger-Klassen
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Martinů, Program Two: The French Connection
Bard Music Festival
Olin Auditorium, Bard College
Martinů, Program 1: The Peripatetic Career
Bard Music Festival
Fisher Center, Bard College
Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin
with baritone Tyler Duncan
Eric Finbarr Carey, tenor in a program featuring Schubert, Poulenc, and Britten.
Concerts in the Village
Kinderhook, NY
Monstrous Gaia
St. John's in the Village, NYC
May 3, 2025 at 1:00 p.m.
Experience a brand new immersive pastiche song cycle that tells the story of Earth and its relationship with mankind. Filigree Ensemble
Experience a powerful and moving journey through Earth's story in Monstrous Gaia. This unique performance blends poetry, vocal artistry, and instrumental meditations to explore the profound and complicated relationship between our planet and humankind.
St. James the Less
Scarsdale, NY
Meltdown
Grounded in the lived experience of scientific practice, Meltdown uses music and video to explore the intertwined dynamics of grief over the climate crisis and the exploitation and extraction of people and land.
Performed by mezzo-soprano Hai-Ting Chinn, violinist Francesca Anderegg, cellist Jules Biber and pianist Erika Switzer, Meltdown was co-created by Hai-Ting Chinn, librettist David Cote, and composer Stefan Weisman. Visual design by Camilla Tassi.
Distant Beloved
with Tyler Duncan, baritone
Aspect Chamber Music Series
Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio in A minor
with Helena Baillie, violin and Anita Balàzs, cello
Thirty-five years after its dismantling, the Berlin Wall continues to hold a place in memory as a symbol of the Cold War. The collective output of a generation of writers, artists, and musicians on both sides of the Iron Curtain reveals a complex and often unexpected mix of conflicted nationalist loyalties, ideological optimism, and artistic triumph in the face of profound challenge. Guarneri Hall’s three-day festival commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 will explore the music of the Cold War and its context through the socio-political lenses of both the west and the east. With the help of leading topical experts, each event will illuminate less conventionally understood aspects of the era’s music and provide a balanced view of the forces that influenced its composers.
Selections from “The Hollywood Songbook” (1942-43) for low voice and piano
Fourteen Ways of Describing Rain, Op. 70 for flute, clarinet, violin/viola, cello and piano
Septet No. 2 (“Circus”) for flute/piccolo, clarinet, bassoon, and string quartet
“Serious Songs” for baritone and strings
Artists: Tyler Duncan, baritone; Erica Switzer, piano; Elizabeth Fayette and Stefan Hersh, violins; Brian Hong and Tanner Menees, violas; Ari Evan and Alexander Hersh, cellos; Constance Volk, flute; Katherine Jimoh, clarinet; Ben Roidl-Ward, bassoon
Between Science, Artistic Practice, and Health: Exploring the Harmony of Music and Social Connection
UBC Brain Wellness Program
2:30 pm • Preconcert Talk with Hilary Porris
3 pm • Performance: Laquita Mitchell, Monica Yunus, and Camille Zamora, sopranos; Rebecca Ringle Kamarei and Adriana Zabala, mezzo-sopranos; Noah Stewart, tenor; Babatunde Akinboboye, baritone; Anna Polonsky, Erika Switzer, and Lucy Tucker Yates, piano; Sharyn Pirtle, director of Le dernier sorcier; and others
Hector Berlioz (1803–69)
Le mort d’Ophélie, Op. 18, No. 2 (1842)
La captive, Op. 12 (1831–32)
Pauline Viardot (1821–1910)
Le dernier sorcier (1869)
Works by Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868); Louise Bertin (1805–77); Clara Schumann (1819–96); and others
11 am • Performance with commentary by Byron Adams; with Jana McIntyre, soprano; Rebecca Ringle Kamarei, mezzo-soprano; Maximillian Jansen, tenor; Tyler Duncan, baritone; and Kayo Iwama and Erika Switzer, piano
Hector Berlioz (1803–69)
Irlande, Op. 2 (1830); songs
Songs and arias by Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791–1864); Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868); Franz Liszt (1811–86); Richard Wagner (1813–83); Pauline Viardot (1821–1910); Ernest Reyer (1823–1909); Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921); Georges Bizet (1838–75); Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–93); Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924)
1 pm • Preconcert Talk with Jonathan Kregor
1:30 pm • Performance: Jana McIntyre, soprano; Rebecca Ringle Kamarei, mezzo-soprano; Tyler Duncan, baritone; Noël Wan, harp; Michael Stephen Brown and Erika Switzer, piano; Balourdet Quartet; and others
Hector Berlioz (1803–69)
Le montagnard exilé (1822–23)
Luigi Cherubini (1760–1842)
Etude No. 2 (1804)
Anton Reicha (1770–1836)
String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 49, No. 1 (1803)
Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826)
Invitation to the Dance, Op. 65 (1819)
Elias Parish Alvars (1808–49)
Introduction and Variations on Themes from Bellini’s Norma, Op. 36 (n.d.)
Arias by Jean-François Le Sueur (1760–1837); Gaspare Spontini (1774–1851); Ambroise Thomas (1811–96)
Tyler Duncan, baritone
Erika Switzer, piano
Canadian baritone Tyler Duncan and collaborative pianist Erika Switzer perform a recital of Ludwig van Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte, Lieder by Robert Schumann and a song cycle by Canadian composer Jeffrey Ryan; Everything Already Lost commissioned by and written for these artists. Join us for an afternoon of heartfelt emotion and artistic mastery as this music is brought to life by Canada’s most sought-after recitalists.
