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Interview on IDAGIO with Rachel Fenlon
It was my pleasure to talk with Rachel Fenlon on her video interview show Classical (R)evolution; you can watch/listen by clicking the picture below, or here at this link:
“Sing Like an Animal” by Scott Mac Donough
The Art and Science Behind the Voice, interview with New Music Box
Urgency is an important ingredient in everything Lucy Dhegrae does—whether singing music by Eve Beglarian, Joanna Newsom, Jason Eckardt, Gabrielle Herbst, and many others, or curating Resonant Bodies, a three-day festival of contemporary vocal music that takes place annually in New York City and which has now had iterations in Chicago as well as in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia. Urgency is also what fuels her life’s mission: to be empowered as a singer and to empower other singers which, aside from a desire to make musical experiences fairer, yields better performances as she tells Frank J. Oteri in this video presentation by Molly Sheridan. To read a transcript of the entire conversation, visit: https://nmbx.newmusicusa.org/lucy-dhegrae-the-art-and-science-behind-the-voice
WQXR’S 20 FOR 20
WQXR Presents "20 For 20": Artists To Watch for the Upcoming Year, “sensationally gifted [performers]…. who are redefining what classical music can be, and doing so in diverse and thrilling ways.”
NEW YORK TIMES FEATURE ON THE PROCESSING SERIES
“After Trauma, a Silenced Vocalist Sings Again” — Lucy Dhegrae begins a four-concert series exploring the complex relationship between mind and body.
INTERVIEW WITH NEW MUSIC BOX
Interview with Frank Oteri, editor of New Music Box: Lucy Dhegrae: The Art and Science Behind the Voice
FEATURE IN THE NEW YORK TIMES
A Tasting Menu of Yelps and Hums at the Resonant Bodies Festival
MUSICAL AMERICA
““It’s not about the ‘beautiful’ voice; it’s about what the voice can do,” says Lucy Dhegrae, singer and director of the annual Resonant Bodies Festival. Dhegrae founded RBF in 2013 with the idea of “challenging and transforming the role of the vocal recitalist,” not to mention the listening context of the audience.”
SYBARITIC SINGER
6 QS RE: THE RESBODS EMPIRE WITH LUCY DHEGRAE
THE NEW YORKER
Alex Ross review’s Ashley Fure’s opera A Force of Things
“Much of the work is eerily spare and quiet, with instruments gravitating toward fragile sustained tones, shivery glissandos, and fractured timbres. The vocalists whisper and breathe into megaphones. When the piece builds to a roar, as it does several times, the impact is all the greater.”
QUOTES
"Ms. Dhegrae sang with a riveting combination of dramatic volatility and cool command."
—New York Times
"...sung with alluring sound and narrative urgency by Lucy Dhegrae."
—New York Times
"Soprano and raconteur..."
—New Yorker
"Vocal versatility and an omnivorous curiosity..."
—New York Times
"...confident... expressive... effective...”
—New York Times
"Lucy Dhegrae ... show[ed] wonderful restraint to blend and sometimes hide behind the complicated and thick timbral texture of other voices and instruments that then allowed her most emotional and human moments to pierce through...."
—i care if you listen
"I felt that pull and warmth right from the first strummed dulcimer chords that open the first song, Can’t Feel At Home, a feeling that only increased when Lucy Dhegrae began singing with the perfect combination of real feeling, theatricality and classical control.”
— An Ear Full
"Dhegrae, who seems to be everywhere new music is being sung, is a particularly strong and versatile performer...”
—New York Classical Review
"...emotional... Forceful, resigned, rhapsodic and angry... kept up with the opera's fierce pacing and was convincingly agile in her response to the .. grinding and highly charged direction.... impressive vocal control..."
—Schmopera
"... Lucy Dhegrae presented with stunning beauty … her bright bell tones transcended the concrete theater with visions of the heavenly Olympus… her voice truly soared.”
—Theatre Scene
“…a seamless, gliding performance that seemed to capture the effervescence… Dhegrae and Pesca performed elegantly and seemed to enjoy the performance along with the audience.”
—KDHX St. Louis
"But it was the voice of Lucy Dhegrae which rose above everything. Hers was a vocalise, with lulling sounds rather than words. She sung, yes. But hers was a soprano-alto which almost literally melted through the sounds of the orchestra. I have no doubt Ms. Dhegrae can essay those tours de force which all singers do these days. Yet this was a voice which didn’t need gymnastics. The sounds were pure, sweet, Ms. Evans’s semi-melodies seemed to come out of space, floated, evaporated, started again. It was an experience which transcended the composition itself."
—ConcertoNet.com