NYFOS: The Wider View – Songs by Black Composers
$20-$70
- Kearstin Piper Brown, soprano
- Lucia Bradford, mezzo-soprano
- Jorell Williams, baritone
- Steven Blier, piano
- Nathaniel LaNasa, piano
H. Leslie Adams — Selected works
Robert Owens — Selected works
Florence Price — Selected works
Henry Thacker "Harry" Burleigh — Selected works
Hall Johnson — Selected works
Duke Ellington — Selected works
Music by Margaret Bonds, H. Leslie Adams, Robert Owens, Florence Price, Harry Burleigh, Hall Johnson, Duke Ellington, and many others. Featuring soprano Kearstin Piper Brown, mezzo-soprano Lucia Bradford, and baritone Jorell Williams, with pianists Steven Blier and Nathaniel LaNasa.
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About Kearstin Piper Brown, soprano
About Lucia Bradford, mezzo-soprano
About Jorell Williams, baritone
About Nathaniel LaNasa, piano
Pianist Nathaniel LaNasa discovers fresh possibilities of sonority, gesture, and storytelling in music — especially in music being written NOW. In early 2022, Nate played sixty performances of Ricky Ian Gordon’s new opera for two pianos, Intimate Apparel, at Lincoln Center Theater. The work debuted on PBS Great Performances in September. In 2023, Nate's also appeared at Wigmore Hall, Royaumont Abbey, Musée d’Orsay, and with the Federation of Art Song (Princeton); he looks forward to returning to Brooklyn Art Song Society in January. Nate appeared in NYFOS Next’s 2021 show, 9 under 34, and on the mainstage in The Wider View last April. In October 2022 he became the curator of NYFOS Next, presenting a composer portrait of Errollyn Wallen and a program of diverse living composers entitled The Threefold Terror of Love at the Rubin Museum.
A consummate collaborator, he has been praised for his "stormy lyricism" (The New York Times) and his
"poise and elegance" (Feast of Music). As winners of the 2019 Joy In Singing International Art Song Competition, Nate and baritone Gregory Feldmann made their sold-out Carnegie Hall debut in February 2020. In April, they recorded Fauré and Ullmann songs for B records (Paris). Nate has also partnered extensively with vocalist Lucy Dhegrae; they have performed together in a candlelit crypt, as part of the Resonant Bodies Festival, and at the American Music Festival (Albany Symphony). Nate has premiered works for quarter-tone pianos by Dimitri Tymoczko at Princeton, made first recordings of chamber works by Tobias Picker for Tzadik, and workshopped Hannah Lash’s opera Desire at Columbia’s Miller Theater.
Nate's NYC credits include Alice Tully Hall, MoMA, and (le) Poisson Rouge. A graduate of the Juilliard School and a 2018 fellow at Tanglewood, Nate joined the coaching staff at Berlin Opera Academy in 2019, and the faculty of Saluzzo Opera Academy in 2021. He’s been teaching at Piano Works in Progress, in residence at the Adamant Music School, since 2017.
https://www.nathaniel-lanasa.com/