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Save the Date – 12/28 – NCMF Redux

Quartet Integra will be presenting my “Epigram” on the opening concert of this year’s Nevada Chamber Music Festival, Saturday, December 28, 2024, at 7:30 pm in the Hall Recital Hall at UNR. Also on the program are works by Beethoven and Schubert.

 

“Oh, Will” for Pierrot In Dayton

Soprano Andrea Chenoweth Wells performed the aria “Oh Will, come see” from The Big Bonanza, in a new arrangement for Pierrot ensemble, on her Faculty Recital of Contemporary Chamber Music, which took place on October 9, 2024, at the Roger Glass Center for the Arts at the University of Dayton, Ohio, under the direction of Neal Gittleman.

Song Cycle ‘de la Noche’ premiere at Bowling Green State University

Mezzo-soprano Katherine Pracht Phares and pianist Kevin Bylsma delivered an impressive premiere performance of this cycle of seven songs on poems of Federico Garcia Lorca (in Spanish) on the evening of January 17,2024, in Bryan Recital Hall, at Bowling Green State University in Toledo, Ohio.

      World Premiere of de la Noche

Trio ‘Toiyabe’ Tour

Oboist Aaron Hill, violist Dustin Budish and harpist Emily Montoya Barnes, premiered a new ten-minute Houghton work commissioned by Toiyabe Chamber Music Society for their three-city inaugural tour as part of a full program featuring this unusual trio combination at St. Thomas Aquinas in Reno, Nevada, with additional performances at the Fallon Theater in Fallon, and at Eureka Opera House in Eureka, Nevada in May.

Here is a link to watch the Eureka performance of Houghton’s Trio ‘Toiyabe’

https://drive.google.com/file/d/18sFATSH3FYOq5I3da0QfmzHwELiRL0WI/view?usp=gmail

Art Song Album Release

The works on A BREATH OF AIR by Monica Houghton are “a clear reflection of true nobility and musicality,” said Sonograma Magazine.

https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6607/#listen

“I, Too” from the Hughes cycle, recorded by Albert R. Lee and John Etsell, was selected by Apple Music for “The Classical Voice” playlist.