Helen Lyons, dramatic soprano; Elaine Greenfield, piano
Songs by Ernest Chausson, Augusta Holmes, Gabriel Fauré, Claude Debussy, Lili Boulanger, Henri Duparc, Mel Bonis, Reynaldo Hahn, and Francis Poulenc.
Solo piano works by Maurice Ravel.
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Helen Lyons grew up in Williston, Vermont, and holds a BA in Music from Wellesley College and Artist Diplomas from the Royal Academy of Music in London, and College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. She has enjoyed an international singing career, having performed in Germany with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Mainz Staatstheater, and Landestheater Coburg, as well as in the US, China, and the Philippines. Helen has sung as a soloist with orchestras all over the world, including the Philippine Philharmonic, Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, Thüringen Philharmonic, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and Henderson Symphony Orchestra. She serves as Director of Music and is Monday-Saturday morning host on Vermont Public Classical, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Opera Company of Middlebury. Since moving back to Vermont in 2016, Helen has sung with The Vermont Mozart Festival, Burlington’s First Night, BARN Opera, and enjoys ongoing engagements around the state.
Elaine Greenfield is a widely acclaimed pianist, recognized internationally for her performances, recordings, and teaching, with a distinguished career as soloist/lecture recitalist, and collaborative artist. Ms. Greenfield has received rave reviews from the New York Times for performances at Carnegie, Merkin and Steinway Halls; nationally, for performances at the Phillips Collection, Boston’s Gardner Museum; and for university and community concert series coast to coast. She has been televised and broadcast over national and international radio, including the BBC, NPR, WGBH, WNYC, WAMC, WVPR, and KBAQ. Elaine was a founder of VT Contemporary Music Ensemble, and toured for two decades with Philadelphia flutist & NY Concert Artist Guild winner, Pamela Guidetti. She directs Greenfield Piano Associates, an educational organization dedicated to the art of piano playing, and is an internationally known educator and clinician. She is past artistic director of Cathedral Arts and has been collaborating with Helen Lyons since 2019.
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