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Danielle Buonaiuto: Marfa Songs (Starkland, 2020)
The debut album of soprano Danielle Buonaiuto presents the premiere recordings of 19 songs from 4 emerging composers: Douglas Buchanan, Natalie Draper, Cecilia Livingston, and James Young. These lovely, gorgeous songs will appeal to those who enjoy accessible melodies and traditional vocal beauty.
James Young’s sizzlingly virtuosic “Heathen” from Marfa Songs opens the CD like a shot out of a cannon. Bryn-Julson notes, “The ease with which collaborative pianist John Wilson and Buonaiuto bring across the meaning of the songs belies their difficulty and makes them all the more thrilling to listen to. The piano writing is simply out of this world and the vocal writing is handled with apparent ease by the soprano. It is thrilling to hear how they carry it off seemingly without difficulty.”
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Quando me’n vo with Jason Wirth at the Greene Space, WQXR; Feb 2020
Eve’s Lament and Deirdre’s Lament, from Songs of Lament and Praise (Gilda Lyons/anonymous), with Alejandro Hernandez-Valdez, at our homes in 2020.
Loisaida, I love you (Jessie Montgomery/Bimbo Rivas), with my wife Jules Biber, at home in June 2020. Una the dog makes a cameo.
Sound an Alarm (Handel) from ChamberQUEER’s “Keep the Fires Lit,” an AIDS memorial project. With Kevin Devine on harpsichord and Jules Biber on cello; in January 2021.
GALLERY
Header image: Danielle Buonaiuto as Cass in the Canadian Opera Company’s world premiere production of Pomegranate, 2023. Composer Kye Marshall, librettist Amanda Hale, conductor Rosemary Thomson, director Jennifer Tarver, set designer Lorenzo Savoini, costume designer Andjelija Djuric, lighting designer Kimberly Purtell, and fight director Matt Richardson. Photo: Michael Cooper