Roderick Williams is one of today’s most sought after baritones and is in constant demand on the concert platform and in recital, encompassing a repertoire from the baroque to world premieres. In 2016, in his native Britain, he won the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society’s Singer of the Year award. At the world’s leading opera houses, with the most prominent symphony orchestras, and in the major concert venues, Roderick Williams has been hailed for the beauty of his voice and his exquisite musicality.

Pianist Yi-heng Yang has been described as an “exquisite collaborator (Opera News), “suberbly adept (Gramophone)” and has been noted for her “remarkable expressivity and technique (Early Music Magazine).” Passionate about performing music of many eras and genres, she is also recognized as one of the leading fortepianists and early keyboardists of her generation.

Yi-heng is on the faculty of The Juilliard School, where she teaches piano, improvisation, and historical performance.

PROGRAM:

Robert Schumann:
Widmung
Du bist wie eine Blume
Meine Rose

Dichterliebe Op. 48

Roger Quilter: 7 Elizabethan Lyrics

Clara Schumann: Liebst du um Schönheit

Fanny Mendelssohn: Nähe des Geliebten

David Lang: Abschied

Robert Schumann: Er, der Herrlichste von allen

Caroline Shaw:  how do I find you

Sally Beamish: Nightingale (from 4 Hafez Songs)

Christopher Hoag: The Pros and Cons

Gerald Finzi: I Said to Love

Benjamin Britten: Tell me the Truth about Love