• About

  CSI joins forces with The Hartt School during its second Festival of American Song, with a spotlight concert featuring the songs of Kurt Erickson.

• Program

  Widening the Radius: Storytelling and Expanding the Reach of Art Song Beyond the Concert Hall

  Singer-Composer Collaborations

  • Song of Regret

  • Split My Heart

  Immigrant Experiences
  from Chicago Songs

  • I Sang to You and the Moon

  • Jack

  • Chamfort

  Neue Lieder: Composer Residencies & Adding to the Canon
  Ich und Du

  • Dein blaues Auge

  • Ich und Du

  • Mondnacht

  Nature

  • Young Sea

  • Low Tide

  Poetry, Mental Health, and the Veteran Experience
  from Here, Bullet

  • Here, Bullet

  • Curfew

  Art Song Expanding Into the Public Memorial Space
  from Each Moment Radiant

  • The Petals Unfurling (After the Explosion)

  • Ca’ the yowes

Meet the Artists

Kurt Erickson, composer & host

Michelle Fiertek, soprano

Blythe Gaissert, mezzo

Rachel Kobernick, soprano

Samuel Martin, piano

Lisabeth Miller, soprano

Eric Trudel, piano

Kyle Swann, piano