SONGFEST 2019: May 25- June 24, 2019
Colburn School, Los Angeles CA
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SongFest Summer Institute comprises of three (3) programs for singers at every stage of their development: Studio Artist, Young Artist, Professional Fellow and Pianists, from freshmen in college to professional recitalists. A rigorous art song program with over 20 internationally distinguished pianists, singers, composers, and guest artists give daily thematic master classes, lectures, and private coachings in their area of expertise: covering the breadth of art song from lieder, to mélodie, to art song. Whatever your interest in song repertoire, work with the experts in the field on bringing your songs to dynamic and informed life, learn to consider songs you thought you knew from a different and enlivening perspective, encounter new exciting repertoire, either forgotten gems or new music from our resident composers, and build relationships with fellow art song enthusiasts that will last a life time.
Don't Miss our New CD!
Available on CDbaby, and for streaming on Spotify, iTunes and more! Featuring over 15 alumni performing commissions, world premieres, and songs featured during SongFest's 20 year history, by some of the best of modern day American song composers.
SongFest is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.
Erika Baikoff, SongFest alumna was awarded first prize at the 2019 Helmut Deutsch International Lied Competition. She is a Young Artist at the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Program and is singing Barbarina in Le Nozze di Figaro at the MET.