Sample Recital Programs of Classical Singers
Compiled by the Music Entrepreneurship & Career Center, March 2014
These programs, drawn from prominent US concert venues, provide inspiring examples of content and format.
Use them to create your own recital programs that will play to your strengths and attract listeners and presenters.
SOLO VOICE & PIANO
Julia Bullock, soprano
Kennedy Center, Wash. DC; March 2, 2014
Music by Berio, Rossini, Hertzberg, Messiaen,
Baker/Siskind, Montsalvatge, Brown, Taylor.
Review | Review of NYC performance
Jeanine De Bique, soprano
Merkin Hall, NYC; April 16, 2013
Music by Purcell/Britten, Strauss, Fauré,
Obradors, Previn. Review
Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano
Weill Recital Hall, NYC; October 25, 2013
Music by Korngold, Poulenc, Schubert, Gurney,
Britten, Howells, Vaughan Williams, Glinka,
Tchaikovsky, Sviridov, Rachmaninoff.
Isabel Leonard, mezzo-soprano
Spivey Hall, Atlanta; March 24, 2013
Music by de Falla, Sanjuán, Granados, Mompou,
Montsalvatge, Higdon, Schuman, Roven, Charles,
Ives, Carpenter, Guettel, Hageman, Rorem,
Porter, Moore.
ONE OR MORE SINGERS WITH SMALL ENSEMBLE
Of Time & Space & Nonsense, Cantata Profana
Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY; Sept 24, 2013
Music by Biber, Messiaen, Rochberg, Ligeti,
Shostakovich.
Eight Songs for a Mad King, Cantata Profana
Roulette, Brooklyn, NY; May 22, 2013
Music by Davies, Monteverdi, Handel. Review
Phaedra, Cantata Profana
Dwight Chapel, New Haven, CT; Dec 15, 2013
Music by Rameau, Kander, Bach, Britten.
Naomi O’Connell, mezzo-soprano
Merkin Hall, NYC; November 13, 2012
Music by Debussy, Zilcher, Copland, Bachelet,
Satie, Wolf, Head, Bridge, Ives, Bolcom.
Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano
SF Conservatory Concert Hall; January 24, 2014
Music by Wolf, Poulenc, Duparc, Crumb,
Britten, Copland. Review
Cecelia Hall, mezzo-soprano
Weill Recital Hall, NYC; January 13, 2014
Music by Purcell, Monteverdi, Schumann, Mahler,
Schoenberg, Messager, Poulenc, Eblinger.
Andreas Scholl, counter-tenor
Spivey Hall, Atlanta; December 2, 2012
Music by Dowland, Campion, Haydn, Johnson,
Purcell, Schubert, Mozart, Brahms.
Simon Keenlyside, baritone
Spivey Hall, Atlanta; October 13, 2012
Music by Ireland, Vaughan Williams, Butterworth,
Grainger, Bridge, Weill, Wolf, Schubert.
New York to Paris, Paris to Paradise
New York Festival of Song
Merkin Hall, NYC; March 13, 2012
Music by Trenet, Poulenc, Rorem, Copland,
Bowles, Lasser, Berlin, Gershwin, Fauré, Delage,
Roussel, Blitzstein, Rodgers, Taylor/Davis. Review
Jessica Rivera & Kelley O’Connor
Zankel Hall, NYC; October 29, 2013
Music by Saint-Saëns, Gounod, Debussy, Leshnoff,
Mendelssohn, Bruce, Mompou, Frank. Review