© Kaia Means
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VOCAL REPERTOIRE
20th – 21st Century Chamber Music
Magnar Aam Utfoldast
Richard Adams Under Oath
Sandor Balassa Antinomia
Eve Beglarian Not Worth
Luciano Berio Folksongs
Harrison Birtwistle Weiss und Leicht
Cornelius Cardew The Great Learning
George Crumb Ancient Voices of Children
George Crumb Madrigals
Marti Epstein Superstition
Renée Favand What’s It Worth to You?
Lukas Foss Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird
John Halle Mortgaging the Earth
Bern Herbolsheimer The Visitation of the Priory of St Michael
Paul Hindemith Die Serenaden
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen Din Tavshed
Laszlo Kalmar Hora eius
David Lang Pay me Now
Ann Le Baron Dish
Tania Leon Ivo, Ivo
Erik Lundborg Spring and Fall
Phillip Miller Can You Hear That?
Steve Reich The Birth of Isaac (excerpt from The Cave)
George Rochberg Blake Songs
Ned Rorem Ariel
Mathew Rosenblum Nü Kuan Tzu
Frederic Rzewski Attica
Roger Sessions Psalm 121
David Soldier Letter to Ansonius
Elizabeth Vercoe Herstory II: Joan of Arc
Nils Vigeland Songs in Unknown Tongues
Judith Weir The Romance of Count Arnaldos
Scott Wheeler The Gold Standard
Leslie Wildman In Gold Sandals
Works with Tape
Birgitte Alsted Sorgsang
Eve Beglarian Touchtone Tony/The Buncacan Song
Eve Beglarian My feelings now
John Cage Songbooks, Aria with Fontana Mix
Martina Cizek Ionische Fraktate
Jacob Druckman Bo
Sorrel Hays Ecstatic Plain
Ann Le Baron Excerpts from The E & O Line
Judith Shatin Three Summers Heat
Diane Thome Levadi
Leslie Wildman Solo Flight
Recitals
Grieg and his Contemporaries (Grieg, Delius, Kjærulf, Brahms, Sinding, Backer-Grøndahl)
Women composers of the baroque (Strozzi, La Guerre, Caccini, Leonarda)
Gifts of Song: Johannes Brahms, Robert and Clara Schumann
American Innovators (Ives, Cowell, Rzewski, Monk, Ellington)
Under the Influence: early John Cage and his mentors
Sonneries: Cage and Satie
Variation: A John Cage Retrospective
Gesamtliche Lieder: Anton Webern
Voice + 01: works for tape, electronics and voice (Hays, LeBaron, Thome, Wildman and others)
Songs by Steve Lacy – for soprano and jazz ensemble
Song cycles
Alban Berg Sieben Frühe Lieder
John Cage Sonnekus Squared
John Cage Three Songs (Gertrude Stein)
Canteloube Chants D’Auvergne
Olivier Messaien Chants de Terre et de Ciel
Erik Satie Socrate: Drame Symphonique
Arnold Schoenberg Brettl Lieder
Rolf Wallin Drei Gedichte von Rainer Maria Rilke
Anton Webern Complete Lieder
Oratorio and Concert Orchestral
Bach B Minor Mass
Bach Magnificat
Bach St. Matthew Passion
Bach St. John Passion
Beethoven Ninth Symphony
Berg Sieben Frühe Lieder
Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem
Canteloube Chants D’Auvergne
Carissimi Jephte
Fauré Requiem
Grieg Orchestrated Songs
Handel Acis and Galatea
Handel Alexander’s Feast
Handel Israel in Egypt
Handel Messiah
Haydn Mass in C (“Paukenmesse”)
Mahler Second Symphony (“Resurrection”)
Monteverdi Vespro della Beata Vergine
Mozart Requiem
Vesperae solennes de confessore
Pergolesi Stabat Mater
Reich Desert Music
Respighi Lauda per la Nativita del Signore
Satie Socrate: Drame Symphonique en Trois Parties
Schütz Die sieben Worte
Opera Roles
Magnar Aam Labyrint Bride, Clown, Narrator
Natasha Barrett Agora The woman
Bernstein West Side Story Maria
Bizet Carmen Micaela, Frasquita
Donizetti L’Elisir d’Amore Adina, Gianetta
Philip Glass Einstein on the Beach Featured Soloist
Handel Rinaldo, Armida
Haydn L’Isola Disabitata Costanza
Anne LeBaron Pope Joan Pope Joan
Carla Lucero Wuornos Aileen Wuornos
Menotti The Medium Monica
Mozart Die Zauberflöte Pamina, Papagena
Philidor Tom Jones Sophie
Poulenc Dialogues des Carmélites Blanche
Poulenc Les Mamelles de Tirésias Thérèse
Rihm Oedipus Voice of the Sphinx
Eric Salzman Cassandra; Ground Zero Cassandra
Johann Strauss Die Fledermaus Adele
Richard Strauss Die Schweigsame Frau Isotta
Elizabeth Vercoe Herstory III: Jehanne de Lorraine Joan of Arc
Judith Weir King Harold’s Saga all 8 roles
Frances White She Lost Her Voice That’s How We Knew Narrator
Repertoire also includes numerous chamber works by Bach, Clerambault, Handel, Montéclair, Monteverdi, Purcell, Strozzi, Telemann and others.