My Shows
News on your favorite shows, specials & more!
Dawn Upshaw Headshot
Get Dawn Upshaw Alerts

Dawn Upshaw News

Get Dawn Upshaw Email Alerts

Be the first to get news, photos, videos & more.
Celebrity Series of Boston to Present 'What Makes It Great?' with Rob Kapilow, 11/6

Celebrity Series of Boston will present What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow and soprano Emily Albrink in All the Things You Are, American song from Kern to Copland and beyond on Friday, November 6, 2015 at 8pm at NEC's Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston, MA. Sponsored by Amy and Joshua Boger, and the D.L. Saunders Real Estate & Hotel Investors Group, AMO.

IlluminArts Presents SONGS OF THE CITY, SONGS IN THE DARK Tonight

IlluminArts presents immersive musical performance in conjunction with LISTEN TO THIS BUILDING: A collaboration by Exile Books, the Miami Center for Architecture and Design, and the Miami Lighthouse for the Blind. Called SONGS OF THE CITY, SONGS IN THE DARK, the concert is set for tonight, October 1, 2015 from 6:30PM to 8:30 PM at the Miami Center for Architecture and Design, 100 NE 1st Avenue, Miami, FL 33132.

Rosanne Cash to Curate Music Series as Part of 2015-16 Carnegie Hall Season

Beginning this fall, singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash will curate a four-concert Perspectives series at Carnegie Hall—a residency that offers a glimpse of the rich and disparate elements of American southern roots music, from traditional bluegrass to country and soul music, and from Western swing to hardscrabble, virtuosic folk music. Featuring some of the greatest artists working in these fields, the concerts are a celebration of a soulful and quintessentially American cultural form.

IlluminArts to Present SONGS OF THE CITY, SONGS IN THE DARK, 10/1

IlluminArts presents immersive musical performance in conjunction with LISTEN TO THIS BUILDING: A collaboration by Exile Books, the Miami Center for Architecture and Design, and the Miami Lighthouse for the Blind. Called SONGS OF THE CITY, SONGS IN THE DARK, the concert is set for October 1, 2015 from 6:30PM to 8:30 PM at the Miami Center for Architecture and Design, 100 NE 1st Avenue, Miami, FL 33132.

Dawn Upshaw to Open Hartt's Seventh Garmany Season, 10/15

The University of Hartford's The Hartt School kicks off its seventh season of the Richard P. Garmany Chamber Music Series with five-time Grammy Award-winning soprano Dawn Upshaw on October 15, 2015, at 7:30 p.m., in Millard Auditorium, University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford. Ms. Upshaw will perform in recital with her longtime pianist, Gilbert Kalish. Upshaw has achieved worldwide celebrity as a singer of opera and concert repertoire ranging from the sacred works of Bach to the freshest sounds of today, and in 2007 was the first vocalist to be awarded the McArthur Genius Grant.

Damon Kirsche, Lee Roy Reams, Vivian Reed and More Slated for 'AMERICAN SHOWSTOPPERS' at Schimmel Center This Fall

On Friday, October 9, noted orchestrator and conductor Fred Barton will bring the music of Broadway and the American Songbook to the Schimmel Center at Pace University, in American Showstoppers: An Evening of Johnny Mercer. In his seventh concert at Pace, Fred Barton now brings the power of Mercer's music and lyrics front and center, with a 14-piece orchestra and a cast of 16 Broadway singers and dancers, with direction and choreography by Scott Thompson. The cast is headlined by Damon Kirsch, Tony nominee Lee Roy Reams, two time Tony nominee Vivian Reed, Nick Spangler, Tony Nominee Lauren Worsham, and Tony Award winner Karen Ziemba. The cast also features Jesse Luttrell, Sean McGibbon and Molly Pope.

Carol Lipnik Extends Through January 2016 at PANGEA

CAROL LIPNIK -- the spellbinding, darkly-humorous singer and songwriter who blends folk music and art song with the classic nightclub tradition -- will extend her celebrated performance residency at Pangea (178 Second Avenue in New York) with a season of Sunday evening performances at 7:30 PM from September 13, 2015 through January 31, 2016.

Photo Flash: Tony Arnold, Dawn Upshaw and Lucy Shelton Open 2015 Resonant Bodies Festival

The opening night of the 2015 Resonant Bodies Festival at Kaufman Music Center highlighted Tony Arnold, Dawn Upshaw and Lucy Shelton's most distinctive repertoire, including works by composers with whom each has had a close working relationship, performed with longtime collaborators. Scroll down for photos from the concert!

Washington National Opera Announces Full Schedule for American Opera Initiative

WASHINGTON)—Washington National Opera (WNO) today announced details for the fourth season of the American Opera Initiative, its comprehensive commissioning program that brings contemporary American stories to the stage while fostering the talents of rising American composers and librettists. Three pairings of new opera composers and librettists—Christopher Weiss and John de los Santos, David Clay Mettens and Joshua McGuire, and Sarah Hutchings and Mark Sonnenblick—will premiere new one-act operas, each based on a contemporary American story, in a semi-staged concert performance on December 2, 2015 in the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater. Composer Luna Pearl Woolf and librettist Caitlin Vincent, an alumnus of the program's second season, will present their new hour-long work Better Gods—based on the life of Queen Lili'uokalani, the last monarch of Hawaii—on January 8 and 9, 2016 in the Terrace Theater.

NYFOS @ North Fork Showcases Songs from Latin America in Orient & Bellport This Weekend

New York Festival of Song returns to the peace and natural beauty of the North Fork of Long Island to launch the 2015-16 NYFOS Emerging Artists series with a residency and pair of performances: tomorrow, August 23, 2015, 5:00 p.m. at Poquatuck Hall in Orient, NY and tonight, August 22, 2015, 5:00 p.m. at Christ Episcopal Church in Bellport, NY.

Steven LaBrie and Ben Heppner Sign on for George London Foundation for Singers' 2015-16 Season

?The 2015-16 season marks two milestones for the George London Foundation for Singers, which has been honoring, supporting, and presenting the finest young opera singers in the U.S. and Canada since 1971:  the 45th annual George London Foundation Awards Competition, which gives George London Awards to young singers each year; and the 20th year of its acclaimed recital series, which presents pairs of singers, both established stars and recent George London Award winners, at The Morgan Library & Museum.

NYFOS @ North Fork to Showcase Songs from Latin America in Orient & Bellport, 8/22-23

New York Festival of Song returns to the peace and natural beauty of the North Fork of Long Island to launch the 2015-16 NYFOS Emerging Artists series with a residency and pair of performances: Sunday, August 23, 2015, 5:00 p.m. at Poquatuck Hall in Orient, NY and Saturday, August 22, 2015, 5:00 p.m. at Christ Episcopal Church in Bellport, NY.

  …        23       …    

Get Dawn Upshaw Email Alerts

Be the first to get news, photos, videos & more.

Videos


TICKET CENTRAL
Hot Show
Tickets From $101
Hot Show
Tickets From $80
Hot Show
Tickets From $133
Hot Show
Tickets From $59