Calendar

March 9, 2008 | Sunday 03:00:pm

Soprano Susan Narucki joins ELISION and Simon Hewitt, conductor  in Liza Lim's Mother Tongue and Sensorium (world premiere).   The concert is a composer's portrait of Liza Lim, and her works Weaver of Fictions, Songs Found in Dream and Ochred String complete the program.  www.maerzmusik.de

April 24, 2008 | Thursday 08:00:pm

Soprano Susan Narucki joins SMCQ and conductor Walter Boudreau in performances of Bouchara by Claude Vivier and Constat d'une métamorphose by Pierre Michaud.  www.smcq.qc.ca

May 29, 2008 | Thursday 08:00:pm

Soprano Susan Narucki joins Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Stravinsky's Les Noces in a new arrangment for orchestra by Steven Stucky.  Performances also on Saturday, May 31, 2008 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, June 1, 2008 at 2 p.m.  www.laphil.org

June 5, 2008 | Thursday 08:00:pm

Susan Narucki, soprano and Lani Poulson mezzo soprano join the Orchestra Philharmonique de Radio France, with conductor Pascal Rophé in Gerard Grisey's L'Icône paradoxale at the Cité de la musique, in the opening concert of IRCAM's festival Agora.    www.cite-musique.fr

July 12, 2008 | Saturday 08:00:pm

Soprano Susan Narucki and pianist Joan Panetti present Olivier Messiaen's song cycle Poèmes Pour Mi, as part of the program In the Spirit of Messiaen.   The program also includes instrumental works by Messaien, Bach, and Rautavaara.    

www.norfolkmusic.org

July 18, 2008 | Friday 07:00:pm

Soprano Susan Narucki joins the Chesapeake Orchestra and conductor Jeffrey Silberschlag in Aaron Jay Kernis' Simple Songs and selections from Les Nuits d'Ète of Berlioz.  www.smcm.edu/rcs/

August 1, 2008 | Friday 08:00:pm

Soprano Susan Narucki joins clarinetist Alicia Lee and percussionist Ayano Kataoka in a performance of George Aperghis' Sept crimes de l'amour.   On Wednesday, July 30 at 8:00 p.m. Ms. Narucki performs Boccherini's Stabat Mater with violinists Curt Macomber and Isabelle Engels, Lisa Steltenpohl, viola and Michael Kannen and Jonathan Lewis, cellos.  On Friday, July 25, at 8:00, Ms. Narucki performs Earl Kim's Three Poems in French, with Owen Dalby and Gershon Gerchikov, violins, Maria Lambros, viola and Paul Katz, cello.   www.yellowbarn.org 

November 4, 2008 | Tuesday 5:00:pm

At 5 p.m. in Mandeville Hall; David Rakowski's Violin Songs for soprano and violin, as part of a recital by guest violinist Curtis Macomber  at the University of California, San Diego.  The song cycle, which was written for Susan Narucki and Curtis Macomber was given its world premiere at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in 2005. 

December 11, 2008 | Thursday 20:30:pm

Muziekgebouw aan't  IJ - Proms       Honoring Elliott Carter on his 100 birthday, program includes Carter's song-cycle Tempo e Tempi, chamber works Esprit rude, esprit doux II,  Mosaic, Luimen, Con leggerezza pensosa, and Oboe Quartet, plus hommages to Carter by Heinz Holliger, York Hoeller, Robert HP Platz and Gyorgy Kurtag.

Garry Walker, conductor, Susan Narucki soprano, Ernestine Stoop, harp. 

www.nieuwensemble.nl       www.muziekgebouw.nl

December 13, 2008 | Saturday 20:00:pm

 WDR Aula der Musikhochschule  Repeat of December 11, 2008 concert.

www.nieuwensemble.nl

January 20, 2009 | Tuesday 8:00:pm

With the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group,  Louis Andriessen's De Stilj,   with members of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Grant Gershon, music director.  Works by Mackey and Tuur complete the program.   Lionel Bringuier, conductor

www.laphil.com/tickets/series_detail.cfm

January 26, 2009 | Monday 8:00:pm

At the Longy School of Music, Pickman Hall -  Andrew Imbrie's song cycle Roethke Songs,  and James Yannatos' Haiku Settings.   Additional works by Imbrie, Druckman and Cornell complete the program.  With David Hoose, conductor.   www.collagenewmusic.org

February 7, 2009 | Saturday 8:00:pm

International Center for the Arts at San Francisco State University.  As part of  First Annual Symposium on Music in the 21st Century, concert of works by Carter and Messaien, including selections from Messaien's Poemes Pour Mi,  Carter's Three Poems of Robert Frost and Tempo e Tempi., Harvey Sollberger, conductor.  For more information:  musicdance.sfsu.edu/compsymposium

February 13, 2009 | Friday 6:30:pm

Two performances of Lisa Bielawa's Chance Encounter for soprano and ensemble, with members of The Knights.   Free and open to the public.  For more information on Chance Encounter see:

www.susannarucki.net-news/projects.php

March 13, 2009 | Friday 8:00:pm

With members of ICE, and conductor Jayce Ogren, Arlene Sierra's Neruda Songs for soprano and ensemble.   Sierra's Colmena (2008) (world premiere, Miller Theatre commission), Cicada Shell (2006)
Ballistae (2000), and Surrounded Ground (2008) complete the program. 

March 24, 2009 | Tuesday 20:00:am

Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Grosse Zaal  Reinbert de Leeuw, conductor, Susan Narucki, soprano, Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin.  Program includes works by Veress, Nancarrow,  Ligeti's Violin Concerto and Vivier's Trois Airs pour un opera imaginaire.      www.askoschoenberg.nl

March 25, 2009 | Wednesday 20:00:am

De Singel, Antwerp.   Repeat of 3/24/08 Concert 

www.desingel.be         www.askoschoenberg.nl

May 8, 2009 | Friday 7:00:pm

Celebrating the opening of the Conrad Prebys Music Center, the new state of the art facility and new home of  Music Department of  the University of California, San Diego.  Soprano Susan Narucki presents songs by Charles Ives with pianist Aleck Karis, and also sings in world premiere of A Good Diffused by Rand Steiger for soprano and  ensemble.  Works by composers Anthony Davis, Roger Reynolds, Phillippe Manoury and Lei Liang and members of the performance faculty at UCSD complete the program. 

With additional performances on May 7, 2009 at 7 p.m  and on May 9, 2009 at 8 p.m.  For information on tickets for the May 9, 2009 performance, which is open to the general public, see  ucsd.music.edu

June 1, 2009 | Monday 8:00:pm

Soprano Susan Narucki joins members of Camera Lucida in Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire at the Conrad Prebys Music Center at UC San Diego.  Works of Franz Schubert complete the program. 

music.ucsd.edu

June 27, 2009 | Saturday 8:00:pm

Soprano Susan Narucki with pianist J.J. Penna present an evening of American Song, centered around the works of Virgil Thomson, including the cycle  Mostly About Love, Two Songs of Marianne Moore, and the rarely performed Five Phrases from the Song of Solomon for voice and percussion.  Songs of Martin Bresnick, Charles Ives, Julianna Hall, Charles Naginski, and Marc Blitzstein complete the program.

For more information, see music.yale.edu/norfolk/press/PRs/NorfolkFestival_PR_VirgilThomsonProject.pdf

and music.yale.edu/norfolk/index.htm

July 18, 2009 | Saturday 8:00:pm

40th Anniversary Gala Celebration of Yellow Barn Music School and Festival

One generation after Mahler's Fourth Symphony was written, Edwin Stein, a student of Arnold Schoenberg, paid homage to this masterpiece by recasting it for large chamber ensemble. 

MAHLER Symphony No. 4 in G major (arr. Stein)
Susan Narucki, soprano; Sooyun Kim, flute; Mark Hill, oboe; Alicia Lee, clarinet; Violaine Melançon, Andrea Segar, violins; Itamar Ringel, viola; Jean-Michel Fonteneau, cello; Aleksey Klushnik, double bass; Julio Elizalde, piano; Seth Knopp, harmonium; Ian Antonio, percussion

For more information:  www.yellowbarn.org/summerfestival

July 23, 2009 | Thursday 8:00:pm

Festival Concert, dedicated to the Friends of Yellow Barn. 

Soprano Susan Narucki joins violinists Jennifer Curtis, Marie-Eve Poupart, violist Itamar Ringel and cellist Michael Kannen in Ginastera String Quartet No. 3.   

Works of Desenne, Kirchner and Schumann complete the program. 

For more information:  www.yellowbarn.org

July 24, 2009 | Friday 8:00:pm

Golijov's Luce  for soprano and two pianos, performed by soprano Susan Narucki, and  pianists Vivian Hornik Weilstein and Michael Bukhman.   This work, written in 2002, has text by Federico Fellini:  his answer to the question:  "What is light, to you?" 

Works by Veress, Dvorak and Kirchner complete the program.  For more information www.yellowbarn.org

September 23, 2009 | Wednesday 8:00:pm

Co-produced with Works & Process at the Guggenheim, Mary Sharp Cronson, Producer,
in conjunction with the KANDINSKY retrospective at The Guggenheim Museum starting September 18th

The Blue Rider In Performance explores the dynamic interaction of music, light, and visual imagery using materials from Vasily Kandinsky's seminal Blue Rider Almanac of 1912. Rooted in Kandinsky's connections to artists in both Russia and Germany, the Blue Rider Almanac brought together art, music, and writing from avant-garde movements across Europe, capturing a short-lived moment of international experimentalism that was abruptly halted by the outbreak of World War I. Pianist Sarah Rothenberg and soprano Susan Narucki perform music from the era by such composers as Scriabin, Webern, and Berg under a rich blanket of light and projection; world premiere choreography by Karole Armitage further illuminates a movement from Arnold Schoenberg’s ground-breaking Second String Quartet. Also featuring The Brentano String Quartet.

millertheater.com

September 25, 2009 | Friday 8:00:pm

See listing for September 23, 2009.

millertheater.com

October 7, 2009 | Wednesday 7:00:pm

UCSD's reknowned percussion ensemble, redfishbluefish, led by Steven Schick, presents the inaugural concert of  UCSD's new concert series, Weds@7, in the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall.  Soprano Susan Narucki is a guest of the ensemble in a performance of Barraque's masterwork Chant apres Chant, for soprano, piano and percussion ensemble. 

October 31, 2009 | Saturday 8:00:pm

Soprano Susan Narucki joins the La Jolla Symphony in Golijov's beautiful Three Songs for Soprano and Orchestra.  Music Director Steven Schick conducts the program, which includes works by Bartok and Beethoven.   For more information and tickets www.lajollasymphony.com/concerts/index.php

November 1, 2009 | Sunday 3:00:pm

See listing for October 31, 2009.www.lajollasymphony.com/concerts/index.php

November 4, 2009 | Wednesday 7:00:pm

Soprano Susan Narucki and pianist Donald Berman present an evening of music of Charles Ives, as part of UCSD's Weds@7 concert series. 

November 20, 2009 | Friday 8:00:pm

Soprano Susan Narucki joins Jason Vieaux, guitar, and members of the Philadelphia Orchestra Hirono Oka, Rachel Ku and Yumi Kendall,  in the world premiere of Jan Kryzwicki's In Evening's Shadow.  

www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/special-event-jazz/product/jason-vieaux-guitar/

November 24, 2009 | Tuesday 8:00:pm

Soprano Susan Narucki and pianist Donald Berman will selections from their recent recording The Light that is Felt:  Songs by Charles Ives at the 8th Annual Classical Recording Foundation's Awards Ceremony. 

December 2, 2009 | Wednesday 7:00:pm

At UC San Diego's concert series weds@7 , the world premiere of Lilith, by Anthony Davis, with libretto by Allan Havis.  With additional performance on Friday, December 4 at 8 p.m. 

December 7, 2009 | Monday 8:00:pm

Soprano Susan Narucki is featured as guest artist on the distinguished chamber music series, which features cellist Charles Curtis and principals of the San Diego Symphony, in Ravel's Chansons Madecasses and works of J.S. Bach. 

January 5, 2010 | Tuesday 8:00:pm

Susan Narucki presents a set  at  Bonnie Wright's innovative Fresh Sound series.  "Bending the Voice" juxtaposes acapella works by John Cage with a new work for voice and electronic and an experimental piece that Narucki has developed, which plays the edge between speaking and singing, and bending narratives. 

Fresh Sound happens at 390 11th Ave, corner of J Street in downtown San Diego. 

January 12, 2010 | Tuesday 7:00:pm

Soprano Susan Narucki is a guest on San Diego's acclaimed Art of Elan series, at the Hibben Gallery, San Diego Museum of Art, performing Thomas Ades "Life Story" with bass clarinetist Anthony Burr and Curt Miller and bassist Jeremy Kurtz. 

March 13, 2010 | Saturday 8:00:pm

See description for March 14, 2010. 

March 14, 2010 | Sunday 8:00:pm

Yellow Barn Music Festival, in partnership with New England Conservatory of Music, will host a workshop focusing on "Kafka Fragments" , Kurtag's monumental seventy-minute song cycle for soprano and violin, based on texts of Franz Kafka.  The workshop will be led by soprano Susan Narucki and violinist Violaine Melancon, both faculty at Yellow Barn; four NEC student violinists and four student sopranos will be invited to particpate,.  The eminent Kafka scholar, Stanley Corngold of Princeton University, will join the musicians during the workshop, helping to illuminate the interpretive process with discussions on Kafka and his writings.  The week of coaching, workshops, public master classes and discussions will culminate in public performances in Brattleboro, Vermont on Saturday, March 13 and at Jordan Hall at the New England Conservatory of Music on Sunday, March 14. 

March 27, 2010 | Saturday 6:00:pm

Soprano Susan Narucki and guitarist Pablo Gomez Cano present works of Schubert, Britten, Kurtag and the world premiere of a commissioned work by Igancio Baca Lobera, La logica de los Suenos, for voice, guitar and electronics.  

April 17, 2010 | Saturday 8:00:pm

Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and soprano Susan Narucki perform György  Kurtág's masterwork of 20th Century vocal chamber music, Kafka Fragments.

www.dedoelen.nl/concertgebouw/index.php

April 18, 2010 | Sunday 8:00:pm

See April 17, 2010

www.dedoelen.nl/concertgebouw/index.php

April 20, 2010 | Tuesday 8:00:pm

A repeat of the April 17 2010 program.  

www.muziekcentrum.nl/concert.aspx

April 22, 2010 | Thursday 8:00:pm

See April 17, 2010.

April 23, 2010 | Friday 8:00:pm

See April 17, 2010. 

May 26, 2010 | Wednesday 7:00:pm

As part of the University of California at San Diego's graduate program in Contemporary Music Performance,  Soprano Susan Narucki will direct the West Coast Premiere of Pascal Dusapin's haunting chamber opera To Be Sung.  Cast members include   Stefanie Aston, Tiffany du Moucelle, Leslie Leytham and Meghann Welsh, and Philip Larson; Jullian Pellicano conducts the ensemble.  

The performance will take place in the Black Box Theater at the Conrad Prebys Music Center on the UCSD campus.  For more information and ticket information  musicweb.ucsd.edu

Additional performances on May 27 and 28, at 7 p.m. 

May 27, 2010 | Thursday 7:00:pm

See May 26, 2010.

May 28, 2010 | Friday 7:00:pm

See May 26, 2010.

May 31, 2010 | Monday 8:00:pm

The European premiere of "Chance Encounter" for soprano and twelve instruments, written by Rome-prizewinning composer Lisa Bielawa, at the American Academy of Rome.

July 25, 2010 | Sunday 8:00:pm

Soprano Susan Narucki in residence at Holland's Orlando Festival during the week of July 25-31, 2010.  She will perform lieder by Hugo Wolf, Johannes Brahms, Anton Webern and chamber works by Gyorgy Kurtag. 

www.orlandofestival.nl

October 15, 2010 | Friday 7:30:pm

Soprano Susan Narucki joins the American Composers Orchestra and conductor George Manahan for the NY Premiere of Vivier's Lonely Child.  

www.carnegiehall.org/article/box_office/events/evt_14647.html

January 29, 2011 | Saturday 8:00:pm

Da Camera of Houston presents "The Blue Rider in Performance", the reprise of the critically acclaimed program conceived by pianist Sarah Rothenberg, featuring soprano Susan Narucki, the Brentano String Quartet and pianist Sarah Rothenberg.   (See September 23, 2009 for complete description). 

May 28, 2011 | Saturday 8:00:pm

Soprano Susan Narucki joins Holland's acclaimed Ives Ensemble in a celebration of the music of American composer George Crumb.  Works to include excerpts from Madrigals and Ancient Voices of Children.