The World at War: Recovered Voices
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- Kristina Bachrach, soprano
- Anna Laurenzo, mezzo-soprano
- Thomas Meglioranza, baritone
- Stanichka Dimitrova, violin
- Nathaniel LaNasa, piano
Gideon Klein — Ukolébavka
Erwin Schulhoff — Drei Stimmungsbilder, Op. 12, WV 30
Viktor Ullmann — Liederbuch des Hafis, Op. 30
Viktor Ullmann — Six Sonnets de Louïze Labé, Op. 34
Ilse Weber — Selected works ("Kinderlieder," arr. Jorell Williams; BASS commission, world premiere)
The Holocaust silenced an entire generation of gifted composers This program includes works by those who lost their lives in the camps, but will never have their voices erased.
About Kristina Bachrach, soprano
About Anna Laurenzo, mezzo-soprano
About Thomas Meglioranza, baritone
About Stanichka Dimitrova, violin
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.
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