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Nov 21, 2025 By Craig Byrd. Threnody…October 2024 is “first-rate. Kaminsky examine(s) grief and sorrow and the ways one can move beyond those feelings to a place of peace. (It) “succeed(s) brilliantly in taking listeners on that journey.”

Nov 21, 2025 by Sarah Godcher Murphy. With her new composition Time to Act, Boston Conservatory professor Laura Kaminsky(Opens in a new window) doesn’t just give voice to tough questions about school shootings in America, she

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NOVA Chamber Music Series’ Dance in the Desert concert (March 10) was perhaps the season’s most challenging for the musicians but the set of five magnificently performed works, which included a world premiere, also was

Award-winning Pianist Mackenzie Melemed announces a special project of newly commissioned works and a debut recording. He writes: “Through the years, three works from Bach, Brahms, and Liszt have left an indelible mark on my

Nov. 12, 2024 by Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim at the New York Times. On Thursday, Shelton, 80, takes center stage at the Abrons Arts Center in the world premiere of “Lucidity,” an opera about identity and

Nov. 14, 2024 by NPR’s Garrett Schumann. Soprano Lucy Shelton has premiered more than 100 new works in a decades-long career as a concert and recital artist. “I haven’t spent my time as an opera

Boston Conservatory at Berklee Adds Six New Faculty to Teach Voice, Opera New hires include Metropolitan Opera soloist Sarah Piques Eddy, As One composer Laura Kaminsky, and UIA Talent Agency Vice President Shawn Marie Jeffery.

WORLD PREMIERE Lucidity Music by Laura Kaminsky | Libretto by David Cote In her twilight years, a retired singer grapples with dementia, while her son forsakes his own music career to care for her. Their

From Page to Stage Excerpted from Memorial University Gazette View full story by Joshua Goudie Photo: Katherine Pracht in Opera on the Avalon’s production of February. Next week, the curtain will ascend, cuing the world

February is a powerful portrayal of the families whose lives were irrevocably altered when Ocean Ranger sank off the coast of Newfoundland, on Valentine’s Day, 1982 — all 84 men on board were lost. Shifting

OPERA America Awards $100,000 to Support Opera by Women at Five Opera Companies Pittsburgh Opera Time to Act (working title) Laura Kaminsky, composer Crystal Manich, librettist Pittsburgh Opera’s world premiere of Time to Act (working

In recognition of International Transgender Day of Visibility, Washinton National Opera announced Katherine Goforth as the first recipient of the “True Voice Award.” The new award was created specifically for transgender or nonbinary opera artists

Composer Laura Kaminsky announces upcoming commissions, including her sixth opera, February, for Newfoundland’s Opera on the Avalon, with a summer 2023 premiere; Ruminations, for solo guitar, commissioned by the acclaimed artist, David Leisner; Reading Nafisi, commissioned by Ensemble Pi for its