LUCY FITZ GIBBON, SOPRANO, RYAN MCCULLOUGH, PIANO | 7:30 PM, FRI, JAN 17, 2025

As both musical and life partners, soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon and pianist Ryan McCullough bring an intimacy to their performances that speaks to their many years of collaboration. Praised as “breathtaking” by The Wall Street Journal, the husband-and-wife duo has performed throughout North America and Europe in such venues as New York’s Merkin Hall, Park Avenue Armory, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Di Menna Center; London’s Wigmore Hall; and Toronto’s Koerner Hall, in addition to a recent appearance on PBS’ Great Performances.

Committed to the performance of contemporary works alongside the art song canon, Fitz Gibbon and McCullough have worked closely with emerging and established composers alike. Among the growing body of works dedicated to them are compositions by Niccolo Athens, Dante De Silva, Andrew Hsu, Anna Lindemann, Pablo Ortiz, and Alan Louis Smith. Through the guidance and research of musicologist Mackenzie Pierce, Fitz Gibbon and McCullough have given the US premieres of numerous works by mid-20th century Polish composers, and have given modern premieres of important Yiddish-language works by Moses Milner, Joel Engel, and Alexander Krein through the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research’s Sidney Krum Young Artists Concert Series. Their discography includes works by Sheila Silver, James Primosch, and John Harbison.

Equally at home in their individual careers, Ms. Fitz Gibbon has appeared as a soloist with such ensembles as the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; the Lucerne Academy Orchestra; Tafelmusik; the Albany, Eureka, Richmond, and Tulsa Symphonies, and the American Symphony Orchestra in her Carnegie Hall debut. Mr. McCullough has appeared as a concerto soloist with major orchestras, including the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Los Angeles Philharmonic, and has performed with the Mark Morris Dance Group and contemporary ensemble eighth blackbird.
 

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