Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 24 minutes ago

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Recorded live at Ravinia's Bennett Gordon Hall on July 31st, 2025. Learn more about Ravinia’s Steans Institute at ravinia.org/steans

Ana María Martínez, soprano (guest artist)

Maia Aramburú, soprano
Kaylyn Taylor Baldwin, soprano
Evan Katsefes, tenor
Emilio Vasquez, baritone
Elise Miller, mezzo-soprano

Collaborative Pianists:
Matthew Gemmill
Ye In Kwak
Lucas Nogara
Michael Sikich
Ting Ting Wong

Discussion and performance of selections from:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: “Deh vieni non tardar” from Le nozze di Figaro
Isabelle Aboulker: L’inconstante
Kaylyn Taylor Baldwin, soprano; Ye In Kwak, piano

Erich Korngold: “Mein Sehnen, mein Wähnen” (Pierrot’s Tanzlied) from Die Tote Stadt
Lili Boulanger: Attente
Emilio Vasquez, baritone; Ting Ting Wong, piano

Theodoro Valcárcel: Suray Surita from Treinta y un cantos del alma vernacular
Giacomo Puccini: “Donde lieta” from La bohème
Maia Aramburú, soprano; Lucas Nogara, piano

Henri Duparc: Chanson triste
George Frideric Handel: “Di ad Irene” from Atalanta
Evan Katsefes, tenor; Matthew Gemmill, piano

Giacomo Meyerbeer: “Nobles Seigneurs, salut!” from Les Huguenots
Gustav Mahler: Scheiden und Meiden from Lieder und Gesänge aus der Jugendzeit
Elise Miller, mezzo-soprano, Michael Sikich, piano