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“Quando m’en vo,” La Boheme
Siren’s Call
COMPOSER: Valencio Jackson
COLLABORATIVE PIANIST: AnnaLotte Smith
PROGRAM NOTES: Siren Songs is a concert series focused on the plight of our environment. By using the imagery and lore of sirens, the pieces premiered in this concert highlight the personal nature and immediacy of the current climate crisis. The piece here is the third song in the newly composed song cycle by Valencio Jackson.
Performed and Premiered 2024
“Wildfire” Excerpt
COMPOSER: Adrienne Schoenfeld
LIBRETTIST: Demree McGhee
COLLABORATIVE PIANIST: Leigh Hope
PROGRAM NOTES: Based on the life of Frankenstein novelist Mary Shelley, Wildfire is a newly commissioned song cycle exploring Shelley’s troubled life and struggles. With themes about motherhood, creative impulse, and life after loss, the cycle plays on gothic themes to tell the story of the prolific author’s life.
Performed and Premiered 2022
becoming julie
COMPOSER — Lauren Marshall
COLLABORATIVE PIANIST: Leigh Hope
PROGRAM NOTES: Premiered in 2022, becoming julie is a piece about the remarkable life of bisexual historical figure Julie D’Aubigny. The meditative work reflects on Julie’s life “behind the scenes”, examining her gender identity as well as her sexuality
Performed and Premiered 2022
Recordings
AERIALIST SAMPLES
Performance of V'adoro Pupille," at Fly Together Fitness
Performance of "Nuits d'etoiles," at Boston Pole Fitness Showcase
Production Images and Headshots
Don Giovanni, Northwestern Opera Theater, 2018
Death and a Maiden, 2020
La rondine, Miami Classical Music Festival, 2018. Pictured from left to right: Alexis Aime, Cristina Gallo, Lindsay Greene
Pictured: Cristina Gallo (left), Alyssa Hensley, Harpist (right). 2018
Die Zauberflote, Miami Classical Music Festival, 2019
Die Zauberflote, Miami Classical Music Festival, 2019
