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Lyric Fest is the only performing-arts organization in the mid-Atlantic region with a primary focus on song and art song in all its varied expression. Now in it’s 15th year, LF has produced and presented over 100 concerts and recitals featuring more than 200 local, regional and national artists. LF’s reputation for excellence and innovation is growing regionally and nationally, and the organization has been featured in a number of national publications. Commissioning and performing new works is also an integral part of LF’s mission and programming philosophy.

  • RESOLVED Premiere Performance

    September 11, 2020

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    RESOLVED is a song cycle dedicated to Women’s Suffrage and the 19th Amendment, composed by Patrice Michaels. Above is a video of the premiere performance, hosted by the National Constitution Center on August 26th, 2020. Performed by J’Nai Bridges, mezzo-soprano and Laura Ward, piano. Co-commissioned by Lyric Fest.
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  • Meet Composer Melissa Dunphy (and hear about her setting of Walt Whitman)

    April 3, 2019

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    I had an extremely good time chatting it up with composer Melissa Dunphy about all things Melissa/Whitman/Colonial Philadelphia…and I even got to be privy to the privy! (You can hear about that in the lagniappe section of the interview.) Melissa is one of the 11 composers commissioned by LF for Carol of Words – Walt…
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  • Bryan Hymel, Irini Kyriakidou & Laura Ward in Conversation

    April 25, 2018

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    Lyric Fest’s Co-Artistic Director and pianist Laura Ward engages in a wide-ranging conversation with international opera stars, tenor Bryan Hymel and soprano Irini Kyriakidou. Their concert features music by Vaughan Williams, Ravel, Composer-in-Residence Benjamin C.S. Boyle and operatic favorites. Join us for this grand finale to Lyric Fest’s 15th-anniversary season! Premium seating and elegant reception at…
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  • Daron Hagen: 21st-Century Song Cycles

    December 25, 2017

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        Lyric Fest presents its first CD, released by Naxos Records and now available—Daron Hagen: 21st Century Song Cycles. Click here for an excerpt, “The Rain Stick,” performed by soprano Justine Aronson, tenor Joseph Gaines and pianist Laura Ward. Check out this engaging podcast with Daron as he talks about the album, life as a composer, poetry,…
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  • Podcast: Daron Hagen

    December 25, 2017

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    Composer Daron Hagen recently collaborated with Lyric Fest on a fascinating new Naxos CD, 21st-Century Song Cycles. He talks about the album, life as a composer, poetry, writing songs and much more….
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  • The Fire-Rider

    March 4, 2017

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  • Wade in the Water

    July 10, 2016

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  • Spring Waters

    July 10, 2016

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  • Dream within a Dream Rehearsal

    November 2, 2015

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  • Hagen Dream within a Dream

    November 2, 2015

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  • Poe vid 3

    October 30, 2015

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  • Poe Vid 2

    October 25, 2015

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