Upcoming Performances
2010
February 23rd, 2010: Pamela Stein will perform music of the early Baroque period as part of a pannel presentation on “New Classicism in Literature, Music, Philosophy and Visual Art" at the College of Saint Elizabeth in Morristown, New Jersey. The pannel includes Dr. Virginia Fabbri Butera, associate professor of art history; Robert Butts, adjunct lecturer of music and conductor of the Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey; Johanna Glazewski, professor of classics, and Alexander Murzaku, associate professor of foreign languages. Dolan Performance Hall, the Annunciation Center, 7pm.
March 29th, 2010: Pamela Stein will be performing in contemporary American composer Stuart Saunders Smith's work "Breath" with Mika Godbole, percussion, at Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts in New Brunswick, New Jersey. 7 pm.
May 20th, 2010: Pamela Stein will be performing the music of contemporary American composer Daniel Felsenfeld at Le Poisson Rouge in NYC. 158 Bleeker Street, NY, NY 10012. Please check back soon for full details.
...Coming soon... News about Pamela Stein's upcoming multi-media new music recital at the College of Saint Elizabeth's Dolan Performance Hall, new composition premiers on a benefit recital coming up this winter, and news on the making of the long-awaited North Jersey Songbook! Please check back soon for details.
Past Performances 2009
December 18th, 2009: Pamela Stein will be signing the music of Lesley Flanigan at Galapagos Art Space as part of New Amsterdam Records' Archipelago New Monthly Chamber Music Series. The performance will also feature Elizabeth Munn, soprano, and the filmwork of R. Luke DuBois. The evening will also feature new music by composer Tristan Perich and the Now Ensemble. 8pm. Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY. Tickets are $15. Purchase tickets online at www.galapagosartspace.com.
October 17th, 2009: Pamela Stein will be singing the music of Lesley Flanigan in Voices for Speakers at the Op On Screen Interactive Festival, presented by Lower East Side Performing Arts. The performance will also feature Sarah Moulton, soprano, and the filmwork of R. Luke DuBois. 2 pm. New York Public Library Hamilton Fish Branch, 415 E Houston Street, NYC. Free admission.
July 17th, 2009: Pamela Stein will be performing in Stefan Weisman's recent chamber opera Fade with American Opera Projects at Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn, NY. 8 pm. NYC PREMIERE! Music by Stefan Weisman (AOP’s Darkling, 2006) Libretto by David Cote, Performed by Jonathan Hays, Pamela Stein, and Amy Van Roekel. Musical Director, Stephen Black. Piano, Jody Schum. Fade follows the straining relationship of a young couple as they move into a new state-of-the-art house that is less hospitable than they imagined. The work was first developed by AOP in a 2008 libretto workshop and will have its New York premiere after runs in Philadelphia, San Francisco, and London where the music was described as “lyrical in a Philip-Glass-meets-John Adams vein” (Bloomberg News) and “very melodic, and… very approachable” (BBC Radio). Performance begins at 8 pm, Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main Street (corner of Water St.), Brooklyn, NY. Admission: $20/$15 for students and seniors. Purchase tickets online at www.galapagosartspace.com .
June 20th, 2009: Pamela Stein will be performing in IDITAROD, the contemporary chamber music marathon of the Summer Institute of Contemporary Performance Practice at New England Conservatory in Boston, MA. Pamela will be performing works including George Crumb's Night Music I, Chinary Ung's Tall Wind, Ives' Vote for Names, and a recent work by composer Mischa Salkind-Pearl, American Temple. The concert begins at 4 pm.
June 13th-June 20th, 2009: Pamela Stein has been invited to attend the Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice at New England Conservatory in Boston, MA. http://sicpp.org/
April 25th, 2009: Pamela Stein will be performing Tristan Perich's work Lit with sopranos Sarah Moulton and Lesley Flanigan at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, NY. Also on the program will be works by Duane Pitre, Issue Project Room's current composer in residence. The show begins at 8 pm. Issue Project Room is located at The (OA) Can Factory 232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11215.
April 9th, 2009: Pamela Stein will be giving a recital at Yamaha Concert Hall in Manhattan with pianists Kathleen Supove and Timothy Hoft. Pamela will be performing George Crumb's Apparition for voice and amplified piano, and will be giving the American premier of Erick Flores' PS: for voice and live audio track. Also on the program will be works by composers Anthony Cornicello and Lukas Ligeti. 689 Fifth Avenue, New York City (entrance is at 54th Street). 7:30 pm. Tickets are $10.
February 5th, 2009: Pamela Stein will be singing in the premier of Stabat Mater Dolorosa, a new work for four singers, string orchestra, and video, by composer Jacob Cooper as part of the New Music, New Haven series at Sprague Hall, Morse Recital Hall, at Yale University. Also performing in the work will be singers Mellissa Hughes, Abigail Nims, and Caroline Shaw. Julian Pellicano will be conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale. The concert, which also features works by composers Jordan Kuspa, Timothy Andres, and Ezra Laderman, begins at 8 pm.
Past Performances 2008
November 21st and 22nd, 2008: Pamela Stein will be singing the principal role of Julia in workshop performances of Anthony Gatto and Jay Scheib's new opera The Making of Americans at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Performances are at the Kresge Little Theater on the MIT Campus. The performance begins at 8pm.
December 12th, 13th, 2008 at The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN: Pamela Stein will be singing the principal role of Julia in the world premier of a new opera by Anthony Gatto and Jay Scheib, based on Gertrude Stein's novel The Making of Americans. From the Walker Press Release... "Celebrated Boston-based experimental theater director Jay Scheib, Brooklyn-based composer Anthony Gatto, Minneapolis-based new music stalwarts Zeitgeist, and upstart New York string quartet JACK conspire to re-imagine Gertrude Stein’s groundbreaking history of “everyone everywhere at every time” with the Walker Art Center-commissioned opera The Making of Americans. Conceived as a cross-media opera for small orchestra, string quartet, six singers, an actor, and a chorus of families, this ambitious collaboration has its world premiere Friday–Saturday, December 12–13, at 8 pm in the Walker’s William and Nadine McGuire Theater. The Making of Americans unfolds in front of sets and machines by Minneapolis artist Chris Larson with Scheib’s signature live and processed video streams." Contact the Walker Art Center for tickets. 1750 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis, MN, 55403. 612.375.7600. Performances begin at 8 pm.
July 8th-27th, 2008: Pamela Stein has been accepted as a vocal performance fellow to the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, MA.
July 21st, 2008: Pamela Stein will be premiering two new works: Evolution of a Relationship by composer Malina Rauschenfels, and Plural Marriage by composer Paul Swartzel. Also performing in these premiers are Rachel Calloway, Katie Geissinger, and Jeff Gavett. 4:30 pm at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA) in North Adams, MA.
July 22nd, 2008: Pamela Stein will be performing Meredith Monk's Calling with Rachel Calloway, Katie Geissinger, and Jeff Gavett at 4:30 pm at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA) in North Adams, MA.
July 23rd, 2008: Pamela Stein will be performing several works by composer Meredith Monk in a lakeside concert near the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA). Also performing are Rachel Calloway, Katie Geissinger and Jeff Gavett.
July 26th, 2008: The Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival Marathon Pamela Stein will be performing in Shelter, a work for orchestra, three sopranos, and film, composed by Bang on a Can founders David Lang, Michael Gordon and Julia Wolfe. Ms. Stein will also be performing in Terry Riley's Olson 111. The six-hour performance marathon takes place at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA) in North Adams, MA, and begins at 4:30 pm.
June 18th, 2008: Pamela Stein will be premiering a new work by composer Tristan Perich at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, NY. The new work, (untitled) Bernadette Mayer will also feature performers Daisy Press, Abby Fischer, Sarah Moulton, and Lesley Flanigan, and electronics on fifteen channels. The show begins at 8 pm. Issue Project Room is located at The (OA) Can Factory 232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11215.
June 1st-14th, 2008:Pamela Stein will be an apprentice at the Hot Springs Music Festival in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
June 3rd, 7:30 pm: Pamela Stein will be performing in The Hot Springs "Festival Cabaret" at the Arlington Resort.
June 8th, 7:30: Pamela Stein will be singing the role of Eva in Haydn's "The Creation" with the Hot Springs Festival Chamber Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Ernest Hotzl, at the Hot Springs Fieldhouse.
June 14th, 7:30: The Hot Springs Festival Symphony Orchestra will perform Mahler's 4th Symphony with soprano soloist Deleene Davidson. Pamela Stein will be the soprano soloist cover for this performance.
May 4th-13th, 2008: Pamela has been invited to perform in the Britten-Pears Programme at the Aldeburgh Music Festival in England, where she will participate in the program "New Music, New Media". The final concert for the program will take place in Aldeburgh on May 13th, 2008.
From the Aldeburgh Music website: "This course is a fantastic opportunity for young composers and instrumentalists to experience digital and electronic techniques under the expert guidance of composers and sound designers Ian Dearden and David Sheppard from Sound Intermedia. Composer Jonathan Harvey has a global reputation in the field of electro-acoustic music. Participants will have the opportunity to explore his work in depth and receive his guidance on their own compositions. They will also be able to work with expert collaborators in video and film, integrating the latest cutting-edge techniques."
Works written on this course will be selected to be showcased in the 2008 Aldeburgh Festival digital performance day, Faster Than Sound in June, 2008.
February 29th, 2008, 5:30 pm: Columbia Classical Performers' Concert. Pamela Stein will be collaborating with concert pianist James Rosenblum on this concert featuring classical solo and chamber music performed by students of Columbia University. James Rosenblum will be performing Ravel's Une Barque Sur L'Ocean, a beautiful masterpiece of the solo piano repertoire. Pamela Stein will be singing Ravel's Vocalise-etude en forme de habanera accompanied by James Rosenblum. The concert begins at 5:30 pm at 301 Philosophy Hall, 116th street between Broadway and Amsterdam on the Columbia University campus. Free admission.
April 24th, 2008 , 7:00 pm: Pamela Stein will be giving a recital with contemporary music pianist Kathleen Supove as part of the Ico Music concert series at Gallerie Icosahedron, 27 N. Moore Street, Tribeca, NYC. Kathleen Supove will be premiering several new works for piano and electronics by composer Anthony Cornicello, and Pamela Stein will be performing George Crumb's song cycle Apparition and premiering a new work for voice by composer Lukas Ligeti. The Ico Music concert series is curated by Judd Greenstein and Kimball Gallagher. http://www.icogallery.com/icomusic/icomusic.html Due to unfortunate circumstances, the Ico Music Series has dissolved. This concert will be rescheduled for later in the 2008 season at another venue. Please check back for details.
Past Performances 2007
December 7 at 7 pm & December 9th at 2pm, 2007: Pamela Stein will be performing the role of The Violated Saint in composer Amy Beth Kirsten's 2005 opera Ophelia Forever with Harbor Opera at the Walter's Art Museum in Baltimore, MD. The opera will also feature Peabody alums Erin Brittain and Elspeth Davis, and will be directed by Rebecca Duren. Visit www.harboropera.com or call The Walter's Art Museum at 1-410-547-9000 for tickets and information.
August 18th, 2007, 7:30 pm: Pamela Stein will be performing in Handel's Acis and Galatea with the Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey as part of their 2007 Summer Festival of Baroque Music. Grace Church, Route 124 at Kings Road, Madison, NJ. Tickets are $25, $20/seniors, $5/students.
July 28th and July 29th, 2007 : Pamela Stein will be performing in a newly created improvisational opera with OperaWorks! 2007. CSU-Northridge Recital Hall, 18111 Nordhoff St, Northridge, CA. 7 pm on July 28th and 2 pm on July 29th. $23 general admission, $18 students and seniors.
June 21st, 2007, 6 pm, Plainwood Square Park, 1380 South Ave, Plainfield, NJ. Pamela Stein will be performing with the New Jersey Concert Opera Orchestra conducted by Robert Butts. The concert will feature highlights from the operatic repertoire.
May 9th, 2007, 7pm, at the Mount Vernon United Methodist Church in Baltimore, MD: Pamela Stein will be performing with other members of the Peabody Conservatory chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon, a professional co-ed music fraternity, to raise money for their chapter. Tickets are $15, $7 for students. There will be a reception following the recital.
April 3rd, 2007, 7:30 pm at Friedberg Concert Hall, Peabody Conservatory: Pamela Stein will be performing the role of Sophie in a scene from Nicholas Maw's 2002 opera Sophie's Choice with Peabody Opera Theater. Annie Gill will be playing the role of Wanda.
March 20th, 2007, 8pm at Griswold Recital Hall, Peabody Conservatory:
