CALENDAR
2024
Northwest Focus Live
Stacey Mastrian, soprano, and Adam Stern, piano, perform songs by Carrie Jacobs Bond, Chiquinha Gonzaga, Reynaldo Hahn, Tom Lehrer, W.A. Mozart, Maurice Ravel, Clara Schumann, and Lily Strickland.
August 23, 2024 @ 7:00 pm
KING FM 98.1 FM
Prisms Music Festival
Nono’s Canciones a Guiomar and more for the centenary of his birth.
October 4-6, 2024
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Finzi Dies Natalis — Federal Way Symphony — October 2024
Cantorei — St. James Cathedral, Seattle — November 2024 and January 2025
Works by Clara Wieck-Schumann, Ottorino Respighi, Caroline Shaw, Arthur Shepherd, and some surprises — with the Mill City String Quartet — April 2025 for the St. Cloud Chamber Music Society in St. Cloud, MN and other locations TBA
Natural Tranquility recital with pianist Wade Dingman
Recitals of Dallapiccola, Maderna, Malipiero, Nono, Schoenberg, and Varèse with pianist Scott Crowne
Performances of works by Luigi Nono for his centenary (2024) and by Luciano Berio and Cathy Berberian for their centenaries (2025)
Recording of newly-discovered works by Sicilian composer Sister Cecilia Macca
Performances with the Akros Percussion Collective and Lugano Percussion Ensemble
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"My best work": Tchaikovsky's Second
Soloist in the U.S. premiere of Grace Williams’ Fairest of Stars, with a text in English from Paradise Lost by John Milton, and in Sibelius’ gorgeous tone poem Luonnotar, with a text drawn from an epic poem in Finnish about the creation of the earth. This concert also includes orchestral works by Mozart and Tchaikovsky.
Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra
June 1, 2024 @ 2:00 pm
Benaroya Hall, Seattle
Three Bs and One E concert
Soloist in Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy and Reena Esmail’s powerful new voting rights cantata Say Your Name. This concert, which is the grand finale of Kirkland Choral Society’s 35th anniversary season, as well as conductor Dr. Glenn Gregg’s farewell concert after 27 years with the group, also includes Bach’s Cantata 150 and Brahms’ Nänie.
Kirkland Choral Society and Philharmonia Northwest
April 27, 2024 @ 2:00 pm
Benaroya Hall, S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, 200 University St., Seattle
A Journey Through Italy
Selections as Magda (La rondine), Nedda (Pagliacci), and Violetta (La traviata) for Kitsap Opera’s 30th Anniversary Gala Fundraiser, which features arias and ensembles from Italian opera.
Saturday, April 20, 2024
6:00 - 9:00 PM
Admiral Theatre, 515 Pacific Avenue, Bremerton, WA, 98337
Dreaming Time recital
Stacey Mastrian, soprano, and Kirk Corey, piano, perform songs and arias by Bellini, Hildegard von Bingen, Lauridsen, Lehrer, Mozart, Puccini, Rachmaninoff, Elsa Respighi, Lily Strickland, Verdi, and Webern.
St. Augustine's Episcopal Church
March 24, 2024 @ 5:30 pm
Humor: Mankind's Greatest Gift concert
Comedic songs by Carrie Jacobs-Bond, Tom Lehrer, Mahler, Mozart, Rossini, and more.
Sammamish Symphony Orchestra
February 25, 2024 @ 2:00 pm
Eastlake Performing Arts Center, WA
Mozart Coronation Mass, Horn Concerto No. 4, and Vespers
Soloist in the quartet portions of the Vespers and in the professional choir.
St. James Cathedral Cantorei (choir and soloists) and Chamber Orchestra
February 9, 2024 @ 7:30 pm
St. James Cathedral, Seattle
Tickets and more information: Concerts: Mozart - Cathedral Cantorei & Chamber Orchestra (stjames-cathedral.org)
Vissi d’amore recital
Soprano Stacey Mastrian and pianist Lorenzo Marasso perform songs and arias in Italian about the many incarnations of love—from first sparks and delight to longing and departure—and the beauty and upheaval it brings. Beloved favorites and rare treats for voice and piano and for solo piano by Bellini, Buzzi-Peccia, Catalani Cesti, Denza, Gluck, Liszt, Mozart, Parisotti, Puccini, Reichardt, and Verdi, with texts by Calzabigi, Da Ponte, Illica and Giacosa, Metastasio, Piave, and more.
Comites, Il Punto Italian Cultural Center, and Seattle Chamber Orchestra
February 3, 2024 — Reception @ 6:00 pm / Concert @ 7:00 pm
Chapel of Saint Ignatius, Seattle University
Messiah excerpts with Kirkland Choral Society @ Bastyr Chapel, Kirkland, WA
Mrs. Meeker in Tacoma Method (world premiere) with Tacoma Opera
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci by Jocelyn Hagen
and Faure’ Requiem with Kirkland Choral Society and Philharmonia Northwest
Private recital of art songs, arias, and musical theater selections with pianist Wade Dingman
Opera on the Hill - Songs and arias by underrepresented composers:
Joseph Bologne, Carrie Jacobs Bond, Fanny Mendelssohn, and Matilde Salvador
Recital with pianist Cori Belle at Indie Musikhaus
Soprano in the professional chamber group Emerald Ensemble - works by Attwood, Boyce, Clarke, Elgar, Handel, Howells, Lawes, Parry, Purcell, Vaughan Williams, and Walton
Offering recital (Barber, Daniel Carter, Charpentier, Mozart, Puccini, Rachmaninoff, and Verdi) with Wade Dingman at University Presbyterian Church, Seattle
Recording session with the Lugano Percussion Ensemble
Countess Almaviva in selections for the Seattle Opera Guild (canceled due to Covid)
Performance of Barber and Carter for the American Guild of Organists officer installation and premiere of two choral works at the AGO national conference
Chamber choir performances with Pneuma
Bach’s Magnificat and Britten’s Ceremony of Carols with Kirkland Choral Society
An Evening of Arias and Duets - Congregational Church on Mercer Island via Facebook Live Stream (Recital of beloved arias and duets by Bizet (Carmen), Delibes (Lakmé), Gounod (Faust), Léhar (Das Land des Laechelns), Offenbach (Hoffmann), Puccini (La rondine), and Verdi (La traviata))
Stacey Mastrian, soprano
Katie Stevenson, mezzosoprano
Andrew Etherington, tenor
Glenda Williams, piano
Music of Remembrance presents Ghetto Songs by Paul Schoenfield
Recorded October 2021 - virtual concert available in December 2021
Stacey Mastrian, soprano
Erich Parce, baritone
with instrumentalists from the Seattle Symphony and more
Verdi’s La Traviata
Pacific Northwest Opera
Singing the role of Annina and covering Violetta
46th Annual Percussive Arts Society International Convention
November 10-13, 2021, rescheduled from 2020
Indianapolis, IN
Chris Shultis’ Lost in the Woods (Scene 3 “Total Eclipse”) for soprano and percussion ensemble
with the Akros Percussion Collective
and works by Feldman and Harrison with Aaron Michael Butler
Kim André Arnesen’s Magnificat in Seattle, WA
Performance of Kristian Twombly’s Interplait at the MOXSonic Festival.
Voice masterclass at University of Central Missouri.
Masterclass, lecture, and performance (Moments: 100 Years of Sonic Explorations) at Missouri State University, jointly sponsored by the Ozark NATS Chapter and the Missouri State Opera Theatre.
Modern Italian Music Mini-Festival at UCSB: Luigi Nono’s Voice lecture, open rehearsal, and Suoni-silenzi concert featuring works by Berio, Casella, Dallapiccola, DiScipio, Maderna, Nono, and Scelsi.
When Morty Met John: Where Are We Going? @ Studio Z in St. Paul, MN
World premiere of “After Agnes Martin” (from the opera Lost in the Woods) for soprano and solo percussion, with Simone Mancuso.
Guest artist for the 10th anniversary of the Prisms New Music Festival in Tempe, Arizona — including Berio’s Folk Songs and Nono’s La fabbrica illuminata.
Soprano soloist in James Whitbourn’s Annelies with reSound: A Northwest Chamber Ensemble and violin, cello, clarinet, and piano.
Bach’s Cantata 51 with the Opera in Roma Baroque Orchestra and Brahms’ Requiem at San Paolo Entro le Mura in Rome with conductor Stefano Vasselli.
Performances at the the Fleischer Memorial in Philadelphia, PA and the DiMenna Center in NYC of Lost in the Woods, a percussion opera written for soprano Stacey Mastrian and the Akros Percussion Collective during the Thoreau bicentenary -- music by Christopher Shultis, with a libretto based on civil disobedience and nature texts by Henry David Thoreau, video by Hee Sook Kim.
Gala dinner performance and TEDx-style lecture-performance at the closing plenary session of the International Fulbright Conference in Puebla, Mexico.
Concert at Ex Convento de Santa Monica in Puebla, Mexico with Yamaha artist and guitarist Alejandra Reyes and flutist Sarah Bassingthwaighte.
Residency in Morelia, Mexico at Escuela Popular de Bellas Artes.