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Brooklyn Art Song Society
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Irion Hall, Buik Recital Hall
Contact Information
Trish Thoren
walterp@elmhurst.edu
Featuring Elisabeth Marshall, soprano and Michael Brofman, piano.
“American Art Song,” featuring:
Samuel Barber: Hermit Songs, Op.29
Ned Rorem: selected songs
Libby Larsen: Donal Oge
James Kallembach: Three Songs on Poems by Christina Rossetti (2021)
Brooklyn Art Song Society has earned a reputation as one of the preeminent organizations dedicated to the vast repertoire of poetry set to music. Its mission is to preserve art song’s direct expressiveness and emotional honesty for today’s audience and future generations. Now in its 15th season, BASS makes its performance home at Roulette in Brooklyn, NY. In addition to monthly concerts in Brooklyn, BASS has traveled to Philadelphia, Kansas City, Portland, ME, Raleigh, San Francisco, and Seattle and has held residencies at Cornell University, University of Notre Dame, University of California-Davis, University of Chicago, Ithaca College and University of South Carolina. BASS also reaches music lovers around the country and globe with its innovative Digital Concert Hall. BASS’s artist roster features over 50 of the finest young interpreters of art song. For more information visit www.brooklynartsongsociety.org.
Michael Brofman, pianist, is the founder and artistic director of the Brooklyn Art Song Society. He has performed over one thousand songs to critical acclaim by the New York Times and Opera News. Mr. Brofman has championed new works and has fostered relationships with many living composers, including Katherine Balch, Lembit Beecher, Tom Cipullo, Michael Djupstrom, Daniel Felsenfeld, Herschel Garfein, Mikhail Johnson, Daron Hagen, Jake Heggie, James Kallembach, Libby Larsen, Lowell Liebermann, David Ludwig, James Matheson, Reinaldo Moya, Harold Meltzer, Russell Platt, Kurt Rohde, Glen Roven, Andrew Staniland, Carlos Simon, and Scott Wheeler. In all, he has premiered over 100 songs, many of them dedicated to him. https://brooklynartsongsociety.org/project/michael-brofman/
Elisabeth Marshall, soprano, has been praised for her “admirably flexible, gilt-edged voice” of “resonance and beauty” and “radiant sheen,” particularly in works of Bach, Handel, Haydn, and Mozart. She is a regular guest artist with the Brooklyn Art Song Society and is featured on their 2015 debut studio album “New Voices” (Roven Records) in James Kallembach’s Four Romantic Songs, which OPERA NEWS hailed as “radiant” and “sensuous.” A passionate song and recital artist, she has collaborated closely with composers such as Libby Larsen, Scott Wheeler, Delvyn Case, and the late Richard Hundley. In 2025 Ms. Marshall will create the role of Margaret Winthrop in the world premiere of American Jezebel: The Trial of Anne Hutchinson, a new opera by James Kallembach, commissioned by Harvard University in Cambridge, MA. Ms. Marshall joined the Elmhurst University voice faculty in 2024. www.elisabethmarshall.com