We always love a good composer interview, and this one’s extra exciting for us. Thanks to New Music Box for their work getting to know Juliana Hall, and especially for the video they created! Read the full interview here.
Category Archives: Juliana Hall
What They’re Saying: The Music of Juliana Hall
Press Quotes “beguiling” – Noel Goodwin (Times of London) “a brilliant cycle of songs” – Joseph McLellan (The Washington Post) “the most genuinely moving music of the afternoon” – Richard Dyer (Boston Globe) “beautiful in ways both traditional and strikingly original” – Robert Faires (The Austin Chronicle) “These songs were intimate, melancholy, haunting…legitimate modern heirsContinue reading “What They’re Saying: The Music of Juliana Hall”
Juliana Hall Song Cycle to be premiered by renowned mezzo Stephanie Blythe
Post by David Sims Renowned mezzo soprano Stephanie Blythe will premiere a new song cycle by composer Juliana Hall on Saturday, January 19, 2019 at the Sparks & Wiry Cries’ first songSLAM Festival at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music in New York City. Complete information about the songSLAM Festival – including links to purchaseContinue reading “Juliana Hall Song Cycle to be premiered by renowned mezzo Stephanie Blythe”
Stephanie Blythe on Art Song
Our friends at Sparks & Wiry Cries did this excellent interview with mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe ahead of their songSLAM festival. The festival will feature world premieres by Juliana Hall and Scott Gendel. Watch to find out what this great artist has to say about connecting with an audience, the importance of modern composers, and beingContinue reading “Stephanie Blythe on Art Song”
Juliana Hall Premieres – 2018/2019 Season
Juliana Hall: A Season of Premieres How Do I Love Thee? World Premiere Saturday, September 29, 2018 – 7:30 PM Contemporary Undercurrent of Song Project (CUSP) All Saint’s Church 16 All Saint’s Road Princeton, NJ Soprano Martha Guth and pianist Erika Switzer present the world premiere of How Do I Love Thee? – 5 songsContinue reading “Juliana Hall Premieres – 2018/2019 Season”
Juliana Hall’s Art Songs March Across America for Women’s Rights
Guest post by David Sims Part I Every now and then a project comes along that is so unique and so meaningful that a composer cannot refuse the opportunity. So says composer Juliana Hall, whose new mezzo-soprano song cycle Through the Guarded Gate is the result of such a project.Through the Guarded Gate was commissionedContinue reading “Juliana Hall’s Art Songs March Across America for Women’s Rights”
Fall Island Vocal Arts Seminar Features Juliana Hall
American art song composer Juliana Hall was our January Composer of the Month, and is maintaining a very busy schedule of performances and new compositions. Among her most recent activities, she was asked by famed mezzo soprano Stephanie Blythe, Artistic Director of the Fall Island Vocal Arts Seminar (which she founded), to be this year’sContinue reading “Fall Island Vocal Arts Seminar Features Juliana Hall”
Featured @ NATS
The National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) is one of the newer conferences we’ve added to our summer rounds, and we couldn’t be more excited about it collaborating with this great group! In 2018 we loved hosting a showcase of Juliana Hall‘s music, performed by soprano Amy Petrongelli and pianist Blair Salter, as wellContinue reading “Featured @ NATS”
May 23, 2018 | A Double-Feature for Juliana Hall
Art song composer Juliana Hall will be featured in two concerts on Wednesday, May 23, 2018—first in the U.K., then in the U.S. a few hours later. At 6:00 PM in London, the new art song series Re-Sung is devoting an entire concert to Hall’s work, touting her as “one of the brightest voices inContinue reading “May 23, 2018 | A Double-Feature for Juliana Hall”
Beauty, Truth, and Insight through Song: Interview with Juliana Hall
This month we’re featuring American art song composer Juliana Hall (b. 1958). A prolific and highly-regarded composer of vocal music, her songs have been described as “brilliant” (Washington Post), “beguiling” (Times of London), and “the most genuinely moving music of the afternoon” (Boston Globe). The NATS Journal of Singing wrote that “Hall’s text setting isContinue reading “Beauty, Truth, and Insight through Song: Interview with Juliana Hall”
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