From Paris on Valentine’s Day
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Few cities inspire the romantic imagination like the City of Lights. Join a chamber group of Skylarks to celebrate romantic music inspired by the French capital. Join us for La Vie en Rose, Skylark’s innovative classical-crossover collaboration with GRAMMY®-nominated pianist Joy Schreier. The program includes a delightful and delectable mix of music inspired by a trip to Paris, exploring stunning French and Paris-inspired compositions from the last 150 years.
All of the Skylark artists in the program are featured in significant solo roles, spanning genres including classical art songs by Gabriel Fauré and Cecille Chaminade, mid-century jazz standards made famous by Edith Piaf and Charles Trenet, theatrical classics from Cole Porter and Leonard Bernstein, and even contemporary French pop songs debuted by Dalida and Laura Fabian. Showcasing their “extraordinary breadth of programming” (Limelight Australia), Skylark’s artists also come together as an ensemble to deliver their signature “crystalline sound” (BBC Radio 3) in choral compositions from Claude Debussy, Camille Saint-Saëns, and others, including world premiere arrangements from acclaimed composer Saunder Choi and veteran Boston Pops arranger Peter Mansfield. Throughout the album, GRAMMY®-nominated Joy Schreier offers her trademark “ideal support” at the piano (The Washington Post), culminating in a gorgeous solo performance of D’Un Jardin Clair by Lili Boulanger. |
Joy Schreier, Pianist
GRAMMY®-nominated pianist Joy Schreier is Praised by Plácido Domingo as an “orchestra at the piano” and hailed by Opera News as a “superbly emotive pianist [that] wrings every nuance out.” She is acclaimed as an “ideal support” at the piano, “providing much of the evening’s musical nuance” (The Washington Post) and “perfection itself…the dream accompanist.”
Schreier has been presented in recital at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Merkin Hall, the White House, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Corcoran Gallery, the National Gallery of Art, the National Museum for Women in the Arts, the National Portrait Gallery, the Phillips Collection, the Cosmos Club, Strathmore Hall, numerous embassies and recital halls throughout the country. She has appeared with the Marilyn Horne Foundation, the Vocal Arts Society, Partners for the Arts, Philadelphia Lieder Society, and was a featured performer at the 2016 New Music Gathering.
She received wide-spread critical acclaim for Confessions, her Grammy-nominated 2020 CD release with soprano Laura Strickling. For that release, Schmopera declared Schreier as “an indispensable accompanist. She is either preternaturally intuitive or has achieved perfect communication…perhaps a bit of both.”
Schreier’s concert engagements include a sold-out Carnegie Hall debut with soprano Danielle Talamantes at Weill Recital Hall, a recital series with mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard for the Marilyn Horne Foundation, and a nine-performance run of Carmina Burana performed with the Washington Ballet at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. In 2009, she and Talamantes were prize winners in Thomas Quasthoff’s Das Lied competition as well as grand prize winners in the Lotte Lehman Cybersing Competition. While at the Eastman School of Music, Schreier was the recipient of the piano prize in the Jessie Kneisel German Lieder competition.
An avid chamber musician, Schreier performs as official pianist of the Washington International String & Voice Competitions at the Kennedy Center. She serves as Assistant Conductor of the Washington National Opera and has performed as official pianist for the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. She is the Assistant Conductor and Pianist of the Cathedral Choral Society. She received her Doctorate in Accompanying and Chamber Music in 2003 at the Eastman School of Music under Dr. Jean Barr where she was the recipient of the Barbara Koeng Award for Excellence in Vocal Accompanying.
Schreier has been presented in recital at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Merkin Hall, the White House, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Corcoran Gallery, the National Gallery of Art, the National Museum for Women in the Arts, the National Portrait Gallery, the Phillips Collection, the Cosmos Club, Strathmore Hall, numerous embassies and recital halls throughout the country. She has appeared with the Marilyn Horne Foundation, the Vocal Arts Society, Partners for the Arts, Philadelphia Lieder Society, and was a featured performer at the 2016 New Music Gathering.
She received wide-spread critical acclaim for Confessions, her Grammy-nominated 2020 CD release with soprano Laura Strickling. For that release, Schmopera declared Schreier as “an indispensable accompanist. She is either preternaturally intuitive or has achieved perfect communication…perhaps a bit of both.”
Schreier’s concert engagements include a sold-out Carnegie Hall debut with soprano Danielle Talamantes at Weill Recital Hall, a recital series with mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard for the Marilyn Horne Foundation, and a nine-performance run of Carmina Burana performed with the Washington Ballet at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. In 2009, she and Talamantes were prize winners in Thomas Quasthoff’s Das Lied competition as well as grand prize winners in the Lotte Lehman Cybersing Competition. While at the Eastman School of Music, Schreier was the recipient of the piano prize in the Jessie Kneisel German Lieder competition.
An avid chamber musician, Schreier performs as official pianist of the Washington International String & Voice Competitions at the Kennedy Center. She serves as Assistant Conductor of the Washington National Opera and has performed as official pianist for the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. She is the Assistant Conductor and Pianist of the Cathedral Choral Society. She received her Doctorate in Accompanying and Chamber Music in 2003 at the Eastman School of Music under Dr. Jean Barr where she was the recipient of the Barbara Koeng Award for Excellence in Vocal Accompanying.
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