by Isabel Randall | Apr 17, 2025 | 2025-2026 Season
“Power, intensity, sweetness, sensuality, skillfully distilled diction, intelligence of style, nobility of feelings: [Benjamin Bernheim]… is simply stunning.” Le Monde “sensitive, endlessly responsive piano-playing from Matheson, who finds a distinctively pianistic...
by Isabel Randall | Apr 17, 2025 | 2025-2026 Season
“What makes [Quinn] special — and very special indeed — is the way he moves into whatever material he sings and inhabits it entirely.” Washington Post “Craig Ketter…collaborative pianist, produced some of the most satisfying sounds I have...
by Isabel Randall | Mar 10, 2025 | 2024-2025 Season, Blog
This article is in partnership with the Boulanger Initiative. Boulanger Initiative advocates for women and all gender-marginalized composers. “I don’t care who wrote it, I just want to hear good music!” is an all too common response I hear from the public when telling...
by Isabel Randall | Jan 16, 2025 | Blog
Today the music world celebrates the 91st birthday year of legendary mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne (b. January 16, 1934, in Bradford, PA), and it seems appropriate for Vocal Arts DC to add a personal tribute in tandem with our annual Gerald Perman Emerging Artist Debut...
by Isabel Randall | Nov 3, 2024 | Blog
In October, Lunga Eric Hallam and Craig Terry spoke with Vocal Arts DC’s communications manager, Isabel Randall about this program. Here is a condensed and edited version of that interview. Isabel: I’d like to hear about your collaboration. Did you meet while you were...