Lucy Shelton
Soprano

Winner of two Walter W. Naumburg Awards-for chamber music and solo singing-American soprano Lucy is an internationally recognized exponent of 20th- and 21st- Century repertory. She has performed the world premieres of over 100 works, many of which were composed for her. Notable among these are song cycles by Elliott Carter (Of Challenge and Of Love), Oliver Knussen (Whitman Settings); chamber works by Carter (Tempo e Tempi), Joseph Schwantner (Sparrows), Mario Davidovsky (Romanceros), Alexander Goehr (Sing, Ariel), Poul Ruders (The Bells), and Charles Wuorinen (Fenton Songs II); orchestral works by Stephen Albert (Flower of the Mountain), Schwantner (Magabunda), Knussen (Whitman Settings), David Del Tredici (Quaint Events), Ezra Laderman (Isaiah Symphony) and Ned Rorem (Schuyller Songs). Ms. Shelton has received an NEA Solo Recitalist grant, Distinguished Alumni Awards from New England Conservatory and Pomona College as well as an Honorary Doctorate degree from Pomona College. A native of California, Ms. Shelton's primary mentor was mezzo-soprano Jan De Gaetani. She has taught at the Third Street Music Settlement School, Eastman School, New England Conservatory and the Cleveland Institute. She joined the resident artist faculty of the Boston Symphony's Tanglewood Music Center in 1996. She is currently on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music for a new graduate degree program in the performance of contemporary music.