PhoebeJoy Wong | Ian Sidden

Die schöne Müllerin this Weekend

This weekend, PhoebeJoy Wong and I will be performing Franz Schubert’s gorgeous and moving Die schöne Müllerin at the Branigan Cultural Center in downtown Las Cruces.

The music begins at 2:00 PM, but PhoebeJoy will deliver a presentation on the cycle if you are inclined to learn more. The performance is free but

Despite and Still Videos

This is my Despite and Still by Samuel Barber set from my graduate recital. I must give great thanks for PhoebeJoy who worked so hard with me on these pieces and to my dad who after first hearing the texts in isolation immediately figured out what was going on in this cycle.

First public recording!

So I will post recordings from time to time that give any readers a sense of where I am as a singer and maybe even older recordings to display where I came from too.

The first will be three of Dominic Argento’s Six Elizabethan Songs. These are “Spring”, “Diaphenia”, and “Hymn”. I performed these