by Isabel Randall | Oct 25, 2025 | 2025-2026 Season, Blog
By our modest standards, the concert mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and composer/pianist Jake Heggie presented to inaugurate our 25th Anniversary was A Very Big Deal. Its preceding “drum roll” activities included both an American Song master class for local young...
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...
by Isabel Randall | Sep 4, 2024 | Blog
This blog was originally published on thebaritoneblog.wordpress.com and is authored by baritone, Lucas Meachem. Not only are there many differences but there are lots of similarities. Especially after having done many recitals in my developing years and mostly opera...
by Courtney Ruckman | Mar 11, 2024 | Blog
We are excited that mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack has selected the fabulously gifted American composer Rene Orth as her collaborator on the newly commissioned work that will stand proudly as part of Daniela’s recital with Keun-A Lee on April 18. Rene Orth’s most recent...
