“Globolinks, you stand no chance!” Could a young Marec Steffens have known after watching his first opera that this genre would be a guiding force throughout his life? Born in Hamburg Germany, Marec Béla Steffens lived in Budapest Hungary during the early 1990s and in Houston Texas in 2005 and from 2012 to 2016. He... Continue Reading →
We are so happy to welcome to welcome soprano Emily Sternfeld-Dunn to the PARMA family! Her first album with PARMA, SHE consists of two American contemporary song cycles. “Eve-Song” by Jake Heggie tells the story of Adam and Eve, from Eve’s perspective. Ricky Ian Gordon’s “Too Few Mornings Be" conveys a narrative of hope through eleven... Continue Reading →
SHAKESPEARE'S MEMORY is the first album release in composer Joseph Summer's The Shakespeare Concerts Series, on Navona Records. This album includes his previously unreleased recordings from The Oxford Songs series, and his original chamber and vocal compositions set to Shakespeare's dramas and sonnets and the poetry of John Milton and William Butler Yeats. The works are performed by a slew... Continue Reading →
Beloved friend and PARMA artist Alan Beeler (1939-2016), was a tightly focused composer, who presented sharp contrasts of color and mood in the context of clear and direct compositional structures. His most recent release on Navona Records, THE VOCAL MUSIC OF ALAN BEELER, is a new collection of recent works for ensembles both small and... Continue Reading →
Composer, conductor, and scholar Gregory W. Brown released his debut PARMA album MOONSTRUNG AIR on Navona Records in November of 2015. The album, featuring The Crossing and The New York Polyphony, is a collection of Brown's vocal and choral works, capturing the wonder of the human voice as our rooted connection with nature. The Choral... Continue Reading →
