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Konsert med Lisa Daehlin & Sonja Thompson

Sonja Thompson, pianist & Lisa Daehlin, soprano

Performing Haugtussa, Edvard Grieg’s extraordinary song cycle setting the poetry of Arne Garborg.

Haugtussa, op.67 (1895), dikt: Arne Garborg (1851-1924) musikk: Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)

Soprano LISA DAEHLIN has performed numerous operatic roles including Amelia (Un Ballo in Maschera), Fiordiligi (Cosi Fan Tutte), Tatiana (Eugene Onegin), Angelica (Suor Angelica), Madame Lidoine (Dialogues of the Carmelites), First Lady (Magic Flute) and the High Priestess (Aida). Maestro Richard Woitach cast her to sing the role of Wellgunde (Das Rhinegold), and as his soprano in the concert Woitach and Friends 3-1/2.

In New York City, Lisa performs frequently at St. Paul's Chapel, Interchurch Center, Cornelia Street Café, and The Players Club. European concerts in Italy, Germany, and in Scandinavia as an invited singer for the International Edvard Grieg Society in Bergen, Norway. Recent programs include: All About Eve, Inmost Calm, Raining of the Heart, That Old Devil Moonglow at the Exquisite Hour, Cabaret Classique: Exquisite Corpse, December Songs, Transcending Exotic: Embracing Familiar, to name a handful. Her concert repertoire focuses extensively on Norwegian, French and American Chanson, Cabaret, Classical, Opera, Sacred, and Art Song.

Given the title of “Opera Chanteuse”, Lisa performs a wide range of repertoire in a variety of styles and settings. She has performed as soloist at City Center and as vocal soloist with a dance company at Lincoln Center, has sung Dorothy Parker songs in the Algonquin's Oak Room, as a church musician, and as a soloist and choir member with the renowned Concordia College Choir in Minnesota (singing with both conductors of the last half-century: Paul J. Christiansen and Rene Clausen) and, with the Riverside Church Choir in New York City.

Though known for her rendition of "I'm a Stranger Here Myself," Lisa is no stranger to the cabaret stage, having performed incarnations of her show From Classical to Cabaret: The songs of Poulenc, Porter, Satie, and Weill in venues as varied as the underground club to the concert hall. Lisa produced and directed OperaKnit Cabaret at Performance Space 122 (PS122, NYC). Her one-woman show Twisted Stitch: Songs of Love and Knitting was featured in the Classical to Jazz Festival at Cornelia Street Café (NYC), weaving together songs of Grieg, Schubert, Yeston and a world premier cycle of songs written for her voice by Stefania de Kenessey.

Lisa has been chosen as recipient of a Cultural Grant Award by the American Scandinavian Society. Awarded a Masters Degree in Music and Music Education from Teachers College, Columbia University, she operates a private voice studio in New York City.

 

Minnesotan SONJA THOMPSON enjoys a varied career as a chamber, church and theater musician, conductor, vocal coach and educator, having received her formal education at the University of Minnesota and The Juilliard School.  She has spent decades improvising, collaborating and developing new works for the stage, forty years in Church Music (organist/choir master,) and twenty-seven years in higher education.

Performing credits include chamber music and Art Song as well as new music, Music Theater/Opera, and programs that mix genres and styles.  Notable collaborations include mezzo soprano Raehann Bryce Davis, bass Simon Estes, and Norwegian performers Tine Ting Helseth (trumpet), Marianne Hirsti (soprano) and Bodil Arnesen (soprano).  She has performed for the International Grieg Society in Bergen (Norway), the Oregon Festival of American Music (Eugene), the Victoria Bach Festival (TX), New Dramatists (NY), Florida Grand Opera, and live radio shows and cruises to Norway and the Caribbean with “A Prairie Home Companion”.  In the twin cities she has worked with the Schubert Club, Bridge Festival, Alexandria Festival of the Lakes, Edvard Grieg Society of Minnesota, Source Song Festival, VocalEssence, The Lied Society, Frank Theater, Nautilus Music Theater, Theater Latte Da, Open Eye Figure Theater, History Theater, Opera 101 Theater Company (co-founder/Music Director, 1991-1996), Skylark Opera, Minnesota Opera, Minnesota Orchestra and The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.

Recent projects include a recordings of piano and chamber music by David Evan Thomas; Longest Night: a Fantasia with Bradley Greenwald (Open Eye Theater), Contes mystiques with Maria Jette (Plymouth Congregational Church); La Boheme (Theater Latte Da), Moonlit Walk Home (Nautilus Music Theater), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Children’s Theatre Company) and I Am Betty (Minnesota History Theater).    

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