Classical Halloween album?!?!

One of my dreams has been to do an album of Shakespeare music. And then I heard Jake Haggie's Songs to the Moon... And then I KNEW my new & very specific dream was to have a Lady Macbeth mashup with fun & spooky Halloween songs. Crazy right? BUT! The music is just amazing. So why not make this into my official album debut?

There isn't an English language recording of Ernst Bloch's Macbeth and I am so excited to record this! Especially with the pairing of Joseph Horowitz's of an art song version of the Lady M monologues. It is gorgeous and what's so interesting is that there is cross over in the setting of the lyrics. And then there are some great bonus songs like the ever haunting Erlkonig by Schubert and Hexenlied by Mendelssohn.

Milena Gligic, an amazing collaborative & solo pianist, and I started speaking about this project while working on Tchaikovsky's Iolanta. She introduced me to Brad Sayles of Crescendo Recording in Houston, TX, who I am so looking forward to work with. His work with mezzos Jamie Barton & Sasha Cooke made me even more excited about this project. He's a Grammy winner and knows how to work with classical musicians in a way that captures the full sound of what we can do. I'd toyed with doing it in a studio in Los Angeles, but hearing his work, I thought... "go big or stay home!"

The funds will be used for the recording, production, distribution costs, travel & prep work. While I do hope this sells beyond the GoFundMe, it's rare that people buy albums after the fact anymore, which is why your help will be so impactful. You can donate the cost of what you'd pay on iTunes and receive a digital stream once it's released, or give a bit more for a physical CD...or a bit/a lot more and be a hero to this project.

Thank you so much for considering funding this fun (and spooky) project! It will be recorded in late July and released in October 2022.