Experience music of the late 20th and 21st centuries, including premieres, in the intimate setting of the Rose Studio at CMS. Designed in collaboration with CMS artists, Sonic Spectrum concerts are an opportunity to hear the boundaries of chamber music expanded in real time.
Susanna Phillips makes her debut appearance at Bridgehampton Chamber Music with an all-star lineup of musicians and a versatile program featuring works by Beethoven, Brahms, Gershwin, Michael Stephen Brown, and more.
Candlelight jazz nativity service featuring the Biblical Christmas story with 12 piece chamber Jazz orchestra featuring Metropolitan Opera soprano Susanna Phillips.
Founded by Leonard Bernstein in 1984, the Cathedral’s New Year’s Eve Concert for Peace is a longstanding beloved tradition, inviting visitors to welcome the new year with beautiful music.
The concert will feature performances by several Cathedral Artists in Residence, including organist David Briggs, soprano Susanna Phillips, musician Paul Winter, and composer Jason Robert Brown.
Hear the music that changed everything. Join Maestro Alexander Shelley for Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 and Runestad's A Silence Haunts Me, during our two-week festival celebrating the revolutionary whose impact transcended music itself.
Experience all nine symphonies in chronological order, with a different program each night!
Director of Cathedral Music Kent Tritle leads the Cathedral Choir and Chorale in Mozart’s immortal Requiem on a program also including the Stabat Mater of Pergolesi, which features the Cathedral Choristers, conducted by Cathedral Associate Director of Music Bryan Zaros. The program’s soloists are Susanna Phillips, soprano; Mary Beth Nelson Zaros, mezzo-soprano; Joshua Blue, tenor; and William Guanbo Su, bass.
Music by Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, Amy Beach, Gershwin and a selection of Americana songs from the early 20th-century.
This concert concludes Music Director Ken-David Masur’s final season as well as the Milwaukee Symphony Chorus’ 50th anniversary celebration. As Beethoven penned at the top of his score: “From the heart: may it go to the heart.”
The Apollo Orchestra with principal Conductor David Chan welcomes Susanna Phillips, soprano, as our featured soloist in Strauss’s Four Last Songs.
Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring tells the story of a young couple on the American frontier, from the wedding-day jitters to festive songs and dances to passages of utter serenity. It is a quintessentially American work, a nostalgic glance back to America’s “Westward, ho!” history, well-complemented by Copland’s Four Dances from Rodeo, another ballet, this one about a cowgirl trying to snare the attention of a head rancher and set to American folk tunes. The concert opens with star American soprano Susanna Phillips singing Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, a setting of a James Agee poem describing an evening in the South, and Fletcher’s Three American Songs.
Soprano, viola and piano are probably not a combination that springs to mind when one first thinks of chamber music. However, there is a long tradition of great singers performing salon type songs with an obbligato instrument: Enrico Caruso with Mischa Elman, Marian Anderson with William Primrose; even Bing Crosby and Jascha Heifetz! Since 2011 the stellar artists known as the SPA Trio have continued this tradition.
For thousands of years, the moon has inspired people to write poems and compose music about its enchanting glow! Join us as we celebrate the mysteries of the moon with music by Debussy, Schumann, Clarke, Beethoven, and Bruce Adolphe.
Musica Sacra concludes the 2025-2026 season with the world premiere of Wayne Oquin’s On the Words of Walt Whitman for soloists, chorus and chamber orchestra, with soloists Susanna Phillips and John Moore. Oquin’s cantata spans the totality of Walt Whitman’s poetry—from the iconic “Song of Myself” to lesser-known gems written later in Whitman’s life.
Johannes Brahms called his requiem a “Human Requiem.” Indeed, the words of his own choosing combine to console, comfort, and lift the souls of the living. Sibelius' dramatic Symphony No.3, Andantino con moto, quasi allegretto, and Carlos Simon’s Elegy: A Cry from the Grave (written to honor the wrongful deaths of Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, and Michael Brown) make this powerful presentation by the Cathedral Choirs and Orchestra a unique and much-needed moment in time.
Soprano Susanna Phillips, violist Paul Neubauer, and pianist Anne-Marie McDermott bring fresh vibrancy to salon songs. Performing together as the SPA Trio since 2011, these celebrated artists have embraced the charm and nostalgia of 19th- and 20th-century parlor songs, continuing a storied tradition once favored by some of the great singers of the past.
Soprano Susanna Phillips, violist Paul Neubauer, and pianist Anne-Marie McDermott bring fresh vibrancy to salon songs. Performing together as the SPA Trio since 2011, these celebrated artists have embraced the charm and nostalgia of 19th- and 20th-century parlor songs, continuing a storied tradition once favored by some of the great singers of the past.
Soprano Susanna Phillips, violist Paul Neubauer, and pianist Anne-Marie McDermott bring fresh vibrancy to salon songs. Performing together as the SPA Trio since 2011, these celebrated artists have embraced the charm and nostalgia of 19th- and 20th-century parlor songs, continuing a storied tradition once favored by some of the great singers of the past.
Soprano Susanna Phillips, violist Paul Neubauer, and pianist Anne-Marie McDermott bring fresh vibrancy to salon songs. Performing together as the SPA Trio since 2011, these celebrated artists have embraced the charm and nostalgia of 19th- and 20th-century parlor songs, continuing a storied tradition once favored by some of the great singers of the past.
Join us for an evening of unforgettable organ music performed by David Briggs, Artist in Residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
Ms. Phillips will be stepping back onto the Met Opera stage for the December 12 performance! It’s an honor to join incredible colleague and revisit this beautiful character, which she had the privilege of debuting at the Met in 2023!
George Frideric Handel’s Messiah was an instant classic soon after its 1742 premiere and has been a holiday tradition around the world ever since. Through a dramatic series of arias, recitatives, and choruses, Handel offers a musical meditation on Christ’s birth, life, and resurrection—and his message of redemption. Jane Glover leads the SF Symphony and Chorus in this perennial favorite.
Beginning in Chaos, we hear the birth of the universe, light dividing from dark, earth from water. Soon we are joined by all the charming and cheerful beasts that populate it! Conductor David Robertson is joined by a starry cast of soloists and the Seattle Symphony Chorale to depict all the joys of the cosmos.
One of today’s most insightful artists—pianist Evgeny Kissin—leads an all-star lineup in his third and final Shostakovich program of the month.
Closing its 2024-2025 season, the Oratorio Society of New York presents the world premiere of Paul Moravec and Mark Campbell's All Shall Rise, exploring the timely topic of voting rights in the United States.
The always-evolving Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble features musicians from the legendary Met Orchestra in a variety of unique programs. In this evening’s performance, Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the ensemble with soprano Susanna Phillips, mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung, and tenor Ben Bliss.
Ms. Phillips joins the North Carolina Symphony under the baton of Carlos Miguel Prieto.
Ms. Phillips joins the St. Louis Symphony for an evening of joy and celebration of community!
Susanna Phillips, Paul Neubauer, and Anne-Marie McDermott continue their tour with a salon-style concert!
Immerse yourself in the contemplation of the beauty and significance of the night sky in this enthralling NationalSawdust+ evening, featuring music by Kaija Saariaho, Caroline Shaw, Andrew Yee, Philip Glass, and John Glover, with DarkSky International Delegate and photographer John Bulmer, hosted by NS+ curator Elena Park.
Historic recordings of some of the great singers of yesteryear include numerous performances of salon type songs with an obbligato instrument. Susanna Phillips, Paul Neubauer, and Anne-Marie McDermott continue this tradition with the SPA Trio.
The Ocean Reef Chamber Music Festival will return for its 18th season with celebrated pianist Anne-Marie McDermott as Artistic Director.
Ms. Phillips joins other soloists and the San Francisco Symphony Chorus for Orff's profane and profound pseudo-medieval cantata Carmina burana.
Works by Mozart, Bach, and Beethoven
To everything there is a season… in this eclectic patchwork quilt of a program! Ms. Phillips brings her “blend of vigor, expressive depth and tonal splendor” (San Francisco Chronicle) to her CFC debut with a freewheeling mini cabaret.
Rescheduled from 2020, Ms. Phillips joins the Houston Symphony and Chorus under the direction of David Robertson for Adams’ El Niño.
Ms. Phillips joins the Hamburg International Music Festival for a program including Schoenberg: A Survivor from Warsaw / Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
