Lucy Shelton

Despite the fact that American soprano Lucy Shelton is most beneficial known on her behalf high-flying, passionate performances of contemporary music, she’s under no circumstances restricted her musical atmosphere space to an individual century or simply a small number of styles; she actually is as comfy in the functions of Handel as with those of Wolfgang Rihm. Shelton was created in Pomona, CA, in Feb 1944, and researched at Pomona University (until 1965) and at the brand new Britain Conservatory of Music (M.M., 1968) under Gladys Miller. In her mid-thirties, Shelton was double recipient of best prize in the renowned Naumburg Competition — 1st, in 1977, within the Jubal Trio, and in 1980 like a soloist. The Naumburg achievement threw Shelton’s profession into high equipment, and she held herself occupied both as an ensemble vocalist (maybe most significantly using the Waverly Consort) so that as an extremely in-demand single vocalist having a uncommon passion for songs. In this second option role, Shelton continues to be the inspiration to get a body of essential functions by high-profile composers. Joseph Schwantner made up his Magabunda on her behalf, Olivier Knussen his Whitman Configurations; as well as the grandmaster of fresh American music, Elliott Carter, offered her having a function called Of Problem and Love. Through the 1990s on, she’s brought this gratitude of nonstandard music literature to a big class of college students, both at the brand new Britain Conservatory of Music with Tanglewood. Lucy Shelton can be active, though much less prominently so, in the wonderful world of opera, especially when she sang the function of Jenifer within a British-TV creation of Michael Tippett’s Midsummer Relationship.