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NEWMUSICSHELF

Twenty contemporary songs for soprano

Curated & Commissioned

by Laura Strickling​

40@40 Anthology

Volume 1

Song of Solitude (Alone...) H. Leslie Adams & Nikos Valance

Not Quite Stars Juhi Bansal& Julie Baber

The Mother Who Died Too Eugenia Cheng & Edith M. Thomas

Let Us Remember Spring Andrea Clearfield & Charlotte Mew

Woman Walkin Nell Shaw Cohen & Megan Cohen

Patrick's Rune Emerson Eads & St. Patrick

The Solitary Reaper Evan Fein & William Wordsworth

My Song is Sung Jodi Goble & Yone Noguchi

Artist Stanley Grill & Madu Raghavendra

Sun of the Sleepless Felix Jarrar & Lord Byron

anew Joseph Jones/Christina Ramirez

Thanks a Latte Lori Laitman & Caitlin Vincent

This Ode is Mine Bess McCrary

Las palmeras Reinaldo Moya & Pamela Rahn Sanchez

Unborn Michael Rose & Hedy Habra

How to Explain Death to your Daughter Jessica Rudman & Katie Vagnino

Prometheus's Monster Myron Silberstein & Karen Poppy

Email to Odessa (TX) Dennis Tobenski & Elizabeth Seydel Morgan

Saint Scott Wheeler & Jeffrey Harrison

Peony Ed Windels & C. L. O'Dell

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Best

Classical

Vocal Solo

Album

40@40

with Daniel Schlosberg, pian

 

BANSAL/BABER: Not Quite Stars

PRIMOSCH/STEWART: Wind Carry Me

SILBERSTEIN/POPPY: Prometheus's Monster

LAITMAN/VINCENT: Thanks a Latte

CIPULLO/PO(Pound): At Spring's End

WHEELER/HARRISON: Saint

TOBENSKI/MORGAN: E-mail to Odessa

WINDELS/O'DELL: Peony

McCrary: This Ode is Mine

COHEN/COHEN: Woman Walking

JONES/RAMIREZ: anew

CHENG/THOMAS: The Mother Who Died Too

JARRAR/BYRON: Sun of the Sleepless

CLEARFIELD/MEW: Let Us Remember Spring

MOYA/SANCHEZ: Las palmeras

FEIN/WORDSWORTH: The Solitary Reaper

GOBLE/NOGUCHI: My Song is Sung

HAGEN/RAMIREZ: Benediction

HALL/LINDSAY: Two Old Crows

ADAMS/VALANCE: Song of Solitude (Alone...)

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Best

Classical

Vocal Solo

Album

Confessions

with Joy Schrier, piano 

and Sarah McIver, flute

CLARICE ASSAD: Confessions
GILDA LYONS: Songs of Lament and Praise
TOM CIPULLO: How to Get Heat Without Fire
AMY BETH KIRSTEN: To See What I See
MICHAEL DJUPSTROM: Three Teasdale Songs
LIBBY LARSEN: Righty, 1966

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The Parting

by

Tom Cipullo & David Mason

MUSIC OF REMEMBRANCE

with

Catherine Cook, mezzo-soprano

Michael Mayes, baritone

​&

Alastair Willis, conductor

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NEWMUSICSHELF

Anthology of New Music

for Soprano

Twenty contemporary songs for Soprano

Curated by Laura Strickling​

John Arrigo-Nelson, Paul Ayres,

Clint Borzoni, Mark Buller, Martin Bussey,

Emerson Eads, Evan Fein, Daniel Felsenfeld,

Jodi Goble, Juliana Hall, Gordon Kerry,

Joshua Lindsay, Cecilia Livingston,

Ray Lustig, Carrie Magin, James Matheson,

James Primosch, Behzad Ranjbaran,

William Toutant, and Theodore Wiprud.

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N e w   V o i c e s

Brooklyn Art Song Society

Roven: The Vineyard Songs

Laura Strickling, soprano & Michael Brofman, piano

Djupstrom: Oars in Water

Kyle Oliver, tenor & Michael Brofman, piano

Kallembach: 4 Romantic Songs

Elisabeth Marshall, soprano & Michael Brofman, piano

Garfein: 2 Stoppard Songs

Krista River, mezzo-soprano & Michael Brofman, piano

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JAMES MATHESON

String Quartet

Color Field Quartet

Violin Concerto

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

Times Alone

Laura Strickling, soprano

Tom Sauer, piano

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The Garden

Songs and Vocal Chamber Music of Tom Cipullo

Of A Certain Age

Laura Strickling, soprano

Liza Stepanova, piano

The Husbands

Naomi Louisa O'Connell, mezzo-soprano

Michael Anthony McGee, baritone

Stephanie Kwak, flute

Edward Klormann, viola

Liza Stepanova, piano

Glances

Naomi Louisa O'Connell, mezzo-soprano

Brent Funderburk, piano

Marches

Steven Eddy, baritone

Liza Stepanova, piano

Insomnia

Laura Strickling, soprano

Jennifer Beattie, mezzo-soprano

Ian McEuan, tenor

Steven Eddy, baritone

Liza Stepanova, piano

Photography by Alain Brin

“...Brought a flexible voice, crystalline diction, and warm presence."​

The New York Times

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©2025 Laura Strickling

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