Presenters

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JAVIER ARREBOLA, piano
Tanglewood Music Center
Ravinia Festival’s Steans
Music Institute
SongStudio at Carnegie Hall

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DR. MICHAEL BECKERMAN
Professor, NYU; Czech music scholar; Co-Founder, OREL Foundation

WILLIAM BOLCOM, composer
The University of Michigan (Professor Emeritus)

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VICTORIA BROWERS, soprano
Westminster Choir College

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LYDIA BROWN, piano
The Juilliard School
Marlboro Music Festival

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AMY BURTON, soprano
The Juilliard School
Mannes School of Music

JAMES CONLON, conductor
Artistic Director, Ziering-Conlon Initiative for Recovered Voices at The Colburn School; Founder and Artistic Advisor, OREL Foundation

JOYCE DIDONATO,
mezzo-soprano

RITA DOVE, poet

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JOHN FELDMAN, filmmaker

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LUCY FITZ GIBBON, soprano
Bard College Conservatory
Cornell University

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MARTHA GUTH, soprano
Ithaca College
Sparks & Wiry Cries

DR. MICHAEL HAAS
Senior Researcher and recording producer, exil.arte Center, Vienna; Author of "Forbidden Music"

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JOHN HARBISON, composer
Massachusetts Institute
of Technology
Tanglewood Music Center

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JAKE HEGGIE, composer

GRAHAM JOHNSON OBE, piano
Guildhall School of Music

KATHERINE JOLLY, soprano
Oberlin Conservatory of Music

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ROBERT KIRZINGER, composer and writer
Boston Symphony Orchestra

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LIBBY LARSEN, composer

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RYAN McCULLOUGH, piano
Bard College Conservatory

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SUSANNE MENTZER,
mezzo-soprano

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JOAN MORRIS, mezzo-soprano

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KEVIN MURPHY, piano
Indiana University Jacobs School
of Music
Ravinia Festival’s Steans
Music Institute

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JOHN MUSTO, composer
CUNY Graduate Center

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MICHELE PATZAKIS, soprano
NATS LA

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FLORENCE QUIVAR,
mezzo-soprano
Academy of Vocal Arts

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GEORGE SHIRLEY, tenor
University of Michigan

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SHEILA SILVER, 2020
Sorel Commission Composer
Stony Brook University

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ALAN SMITH, piano
University of Southern California
Tanglewood Music Center

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DEVONY SMITH, mezzo-soprano

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LIZA STEPANOVA, piano
University of Georgia

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SIMON WYNBERG, musician
Artistic Director, ARC Ensemble
of the Royal Academy of Music
in Toronto

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MARK TRAWKA, piano
Pittsburgh Opera

ROGER VIGNOLES, piano
Royal College of Music

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OLLIE WATTS DAVIS, soprano
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

SUSAN YOUENS, musicologist
Notre Dame University
(Professor Emeritus)

SongFest Administrative Team

Javier Arrebola
Victoria Browers
Martha Guth
Rosalinda Monroy
Rosemary Ritter
Jackie Stevens