Schedule

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Charlotte Mundy (Soprano)
Soprano Charlotte Mundy specializes in music that is new, daring and sublime. She has been called a “daredevil with an unbreakable spine” (SF Classical Voice). Recent performances include a set of music for voice and electronics presented by New York Festival of Song, described as “an oasis of radiant beauty” by the New York Times and George Benjamin’s Into the Little Hill at the 92nd St. Y. She acted and sang in A Star Has Burnt My Eye at the BAM Next Wave Festival and has danced while singing the music of Morton Feldman and Kaija Saariaho with New Chamber Ballet. Mundy “slays the thorniest material like it’s nothing” (WQXR) with TAK ensemble at venues such as the Library of Congress, Stanford University, Roulette and the Look and Listen Festival, and sings stratospheric microtonal lines with Ekmeles vocal ensemble at venues including The Metropolitan Museum and The Kitchen.

Range: E3 to E6. The upper extreme of my range (A5-E6) is tiring and should be used sparingly. Text will not be clearly intelligible above G5. Lower extreme of range (E3-B3) is comfortable but quiet.

Lucy Dhegrae (Mezzo-Soprano)
Lucy Dhegrae is a singer committed to changing and challenging how vocal music is perceived, performed and programmed. Hailed as an “adventurous mezzo-soprano” and “raconteur” (The New Yorker) known for her “vocal versatility and an omnivorous curiosity” (The New York Times), she moves easily between a broad variety of styles, and can be found “everywhere new music is being sung” (New York Classical Review). Dhegrae is also the founder and director of the boundary-pushing Resonant Bodies Festival, which was praised by The New York Times as “an annual highlight [that] gives some of the world’s most adventurous vocal artists full freedom.” Committed to building a new repertoire for vocal music, Dhegrae is sought after as a collaborator and creator of a body of contemporary music that defies categorization of style or genre. She works closely with composers such as Eve Beglarian, Philippe Leroux, Jason Eckardt, Paola Prestini, Tonia Ko, Angélica Negrón, Kate Soper, Anthony Braxton, Judd Greenstein, Donnacha Dennehy, and others. Dhegrae has performed at venues including Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, and Miller Theatre, with festival appearances at Mostly Mozart, Bard Music Festival, Gesher Music Festival, and many more.

Range: F3 to Ab5. I prefer to approach high notes (anything above D5) with a leap from a lower note.

Steven Caldicott Wilson (Tenor)
Praised by the New York Times for his “powerful, polished and moving Evangelist” (2011) and “steadiness and sensitivity…impassioned without ever straining” (2015), tenor Steven Caldicott Wilson is a member of New York Polyphony and regularly appears with Handel + Haydn Boston and the Trinity Baroque Orchestra NYC. He will be the tenor soloist in the Baldwin Wallace Bach Festival’s Matthew Passion in April 2020, and will join the Trinity Baroque Orchestra in Leipzig, Germany for the June 2020 Bach Festival. Other highlights include solo appearances with H+H Boston in Handel’s Dixit Dominus; Bach St. John Passion at Alice Tully Hall; Poulenc Figure humaine with The Thirteen in Washington, DC; and Bernstein Songfest with Novus NY. Mr. Wilson is an enlisted veteran of the United States Air Force Band Singing Sergeants, and a graduate of Ithaca College and the Yale University Voice Masters program in early music, oratorio, and chamber ensemble. He lives in Pittsburgh.

Range: D3 to C5, consistently mixed throughout. Comfortable reading either treble or bass clef. Prefers not to produce “extended technique” vocalisms such as whispering and guttural/throat sounds.

Christopher Dylan Herbert (Baritone)
Christopher Dylan Herbert is a baritone who performs frequently throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. He is a two-time GRAMMY® nominee. He has soloed with The San Francisco Symphony, Boston Symphony, and Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, performed with International Contemporary Ensemble and the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, and he regularly presents Winterize – an outdoor adaptation of Winterreise with transistor radios. He frequently develops new opera and concert works, including commissions by Hannah Lash, Gregory Spears, Laura Kaminsky, and Ellen Reid. Dr. Herbert holds a B.A. in Music from Yale University, an M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University, and a D.M.A. in Voice from The Juilliard School. He is the head of the voice program at William Paterson University in New Jersey, and he is the baritone in the critically acclaimed ensemble New York Polyphony. His current research focuses on the music of the eighteenth-century Ephrata Cloister in Pennsylvania.

Range: G2 to E4 in chest voice, F4 to C5 in falsetto. Please write mainly in the middle of the range. Do not write extensively at either extreme. Please do not hang out on E4 for extended periods of time unless you want it very loud or very soft.