Florestan has become renowned for its adventurousness in promoting the growth of art song repertoire and performance practice. Frequent collaborations with leading composers, vocalists and pianists have yielded an uncommon breadth of programming. Projects have spanned three centuries of music, while embracing contemporary developments in song composition and performance.
Ben Gunn
by Scott Wheeler and Paul Muldoon
The Complete Songs of Virgil Thomson
for voice and piano
The Peculiar Case of Dr. H.H. Holmes
by Libby Larsen
Barberfest
World Premiere Recordings
The Complete Songs of Daniel Pinkham
PANIC
by composer Andy Vores and poet Todd Boss
A Landscape of Song
The American Vanguard Festival
FrancisFest
The Complete Songs of Francis Poulenc
The Poet's Love
A World Premiere Ballet Set to Schumann’s Dichterliebe
Commissions & Premieres