RECENT CD RELEASES:

April 2010:

Ma Guiterre je te chante: 16th century guitar solos and chansons

Amy Bartram, soprano, and Jocelyn Nelson, renaissance guitar

Includes 9 songs by Adrian Le Roy, Jacques Arcadelt, and others, arranged in the 16th c. by Le Roy for voice and 4-course guitar.

Available now on CD Baby, click here

Also available on iTunes and Amazon

See Reviews page for critical acclaim for this CD.

For an ECU podcast featuring music from this CD, click here.

October 2009:

Daybreak in Alabama: A Langston Hughes Song Cycle,
by John Stone, available on CD Baby: click here

Also available on iTunes and Amazon

To hear “Song for Billie Holiday” on You Tube: click here

Exciting news! Our song, “Daybreak in Alabama,” was selected for the 13-week Song of America radio series hosted by Thomas Hampson on radio stations nationwide in 2011-12. Program 12, “Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance,” aired locally on March 25, 2012, on WQXR. Click here for more information on the series, and a list of songs.

More recordings:

I’ve been singing Chris Mueller’s sacred choral music for ten years.

He has now posted some recordings (many of which I sang on)

on his new website: http://www.benesonarium.com/

You can also hear more of Jonathan David’s music on his website at:

http://www.jonathandavidmusic.com/

Besides the Hopkins songs and some choral music, I sing on the

“Could they be . . .” trio from his musical Island of Light.

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Upcoming Concerts:

Saturday, May 5, 2012, at 2:30 PM

KLEINE MUSIK
Music of Heinrich Schutz (17th c.) and Ivan Moody (21st c.)

I’ll be joining this chamber ensemble for a program of duets (with soprano Karol Steadman), solos, and instrumentals.

Warner Library, 121 North Broadway, Tarrytown, NY

Tuesday, May 15, 2012, at 12:30 PM

AMY BARTRAM, soprano, and EKKO JENNINGS, lute

Songs of Henry Lawes, 17th c. England (half-hour lunchtime concert)

on the Midday Music series at the Church of the Transfiguration

One E. 29th St. at 5th Ave., NYC

Sunday, May 20, 2012, at 4:00 PM

KLEINE MUSIK
Music of Heinrich Schutz (17th c.) and Ivan Moody (21st c.)

I’ll be joining this chamber ensemble for a program of duets (with soprano Karol Steadman), solos, and instrumentals.

Dennis P. McHugh Piermont Public Library

25 Flywheel Park West, Piermont, NY

Recent Recitals (See also Duo page)

Monday, June 21, 2010, 8:00 PM

Make Music New York Festival

Amy and pianist/composer John Stone performed Stone’s works, including his “Daybreak in Alabama” song cycle, at Central Park’s Merchants’ Gate.

Visit www.johnkstone.info for more on John Stone and his music, and check out the CD Baby and You Tube links above.

Saturday, March 6, 2010, at 8:00 PM

AMERICAN ART SONG RECITAL

Amy Bartram, soprano, and Christopher Berg, piano

American art songs by Samuel Barber (in honor of his Centennial), Christopher Berg, Copland, Foss, Rorem, John Stone, and the world premiere of a song cycle on texts of Gerard Manley Hopkins by composer Jonathan David.

Advent Lutheran Church/Broadway Church, 2504 Broadway at 93rd St., NYC

6/10/2009 Fringe Concert as part of the Boston Early Music Festival

“Ma Guiterre je te chante”: 16th-century French chansons from
Adrian Le Roy’s books for guitar and voice, c.1554/5

Amy Bartram, soprano, and Jocelyn Nelson, renaissance guitar.

Hale Chapel at First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough St., Boston.

Visit www.ecu.edu/music/directory/nelson.cfm   for more about Jocelyn. Our CD of this repertoire, Ma Guiterre je te chante, released April 2010; see link above.

5/30/2009 “Daybreak in Alabama: Music by John Stone”

with Amy Bartram, soprano; John Stone, piano; and Scott Wagner, viola

Included the premiere of Daybreak in Alabama: A Langston Hughes Song Cycle.

St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, 131 East 10th St. (At Second Ave), NYC

4/28/2009 Sacred Arias, with Claudia Dumschat, organ;  arias from Haydn’s Creation and Bach’s St. Matthew Passion plus the world premiere of a setting of Psalm 42: “As the Hart” by composer Christopher Mueller. Midday Music Series at the Church of the Transfiguration (Little Church Around the Corner)

5/7/2008, Mozart’s German Lieder with Dongsok Shin, fortepiano; Midtown Concerts series at St. Bartholomew’s Church

10/16/2007 Baroque Opera Arias with harpsichordist Meg Cotner; arias by Cavalli, Charpentier, Gluck, Handel, Lully, Monteverdi, and Purcell. On the Midday Music Series at the Church of the Transfiguration, NYC. Part of New York Early Music Celebration 2007

Au jour by Bonard (16th c.)

with Jocelyn Nelson, renaissance guitar (6/2008)

Binsey Poplars (excerpt)
by Jonathan David; live performance 3/6/10 with

Christopher Berg, piano

text: G. Manley Hopkins

Agnus Dei (excerpt), from Mozart’s
Coronation Mass

Live performance (2007) at

Little Church Around the Corner,
Amy Bartram, soprano
Claudia Dumschat, conductor

The Visit (excerpt) by Christopher Berg; text: Carol Kner; live performance 3/6/10 with

Christopher Berg, piano

The Tyger (excerpt) by John Stone; text: W. Blake; live performance 5/30/09 with Scott Wagner, viola, and John Stone, piano