Our Favorite Things-Season 3!
It’s a great joy to be included in the third offering of the DC Singer Collective’s “Our Favorite Things” concert this fall. I look forward to joining colleagues from the DC metro area to perform as soloists and ensemble members, in a variety of repertoire sure to help you celebrate your fall season. Come hear a favorite thing or two, maybe a new favorite! Free admission with a suggested $20 donation.
Opera On Tap's Singer's Choice Concert
I’m auditioning/performing with the DC Chapter of Opera On Tap! This is an incredible international organization of singers bringing opera to the people—we will perform at the Wonderland Ballroom, a bar in the Columbia Heights area of Washington DC. It’s a bar, so what’s more appropriate that singing a little “Libiamo” from La Traviata? I’m keeping the Verdi good times going with my own audition selection—Sul fil d’un soffio etesio from Falstaff. Come for a drink, music and infuse your Thursday evening with fun! I appreciate your support in my “audition” portion of the evening—-I’ll be singing sometime around the end of the program, a few drinks in for most.
La Boheme With Wolftrap Opera
I’m “pinch me this can’t be real” thrilled to be making my Wolftrap Opera Debut in the Chorus of Puccini’s La Boheme this summer for one performance only on July 19, 2024. Tickets are going fast so reserve your seat ASAP or enjoy the lawn seating, weather permitting. I can’t wait to frequent the cafes of Paris in my imagination singing this glorious music. I’m grateful to Wolftrap Opera for this exciting opportunity and will happily dodge the bugs outdoor all summer to perform in my first La Boheme. I hope you can join us for this musical experience! Reserve tickets.
Penelope Film Production
It’s finally here! We are shooting the footage for the film “Penelope” inspired by the music of Cecilia Livingston in Rockville, MD. There are two exciting days of filming and you can support our artists and production and receive updates every step of the way on GoFundMe. The artistic team includes:
Regina Aquino, Penelope
Frances Rabalais, Director
Katy Fetrow, Production Designer
Jeannette Christensen, Costume Designer
Julia Golonka, Director of Photography
Encore Creativity's Scholarship Cabaret 2024
Encore Creativity is committed to building a world where all older adults have a place in the arts. As a new conductor with Encore I’m delighted to support their work by performing in a concert to provide scholarships for singers. This second annual cabaret will showcase many talents and be a day of compassionate charity. Learn more and reserve your ticket here.
Benefit Concert for AGMA Relief Fund
We cannot support the arts without supporting artists. Please join me for a benefit concert for the AMGA Relief Fund, featuring members of the Washington National Opera Chorus. With your support, we can help artists facing dire times of hardship. Free admission but donations to the AGMA Relief Fund are encouraged. You may be helping an artist in need sitting right next to you. Thank you! I’m honored to join this incredible group of singers to present a wide variety of music, from Gershwin to Copland and many more!
Salon Livestream for Epiphany!
Thank you to everyone who has supported the creation of the Penelope film. This 15 minute livestream event is dedicated to you on Epiphany Saturday! Enjoy music by Erik Satie and Heather Fetrow on Youtube Live.
Amahl and the Night Visitors
Bel Cantanti Opera presents four performances of a beloved holiday opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors and I’m playing a shepherdess. Come and get in the holiday spirit with Menotti’s clever and rich musical tapestry, inspired by Hieronymus Bosch’s (c. 1450-1516) Adoration of the Magi. If you’ve never seen it you will be glad to add it to your life experiences, and if you are returning to it you will revel in its magic once more this holiday season. Purchase tickets here.
Our Favorite Things
The DC Singer Collective is presenting a concert on Sunday, October 22 celebrating the joy of music. Programmed collaboratively, the concert will feature a mix of ensemble and solo repertoire spanning Brahms, contemporary music, and opera all based around the theme of things we love to sing!
The concert is free with suggested $20 donation: donate here using GoFundMe or Venmo @dcsingercollective.
Voyage Á Paris at The Epiphany Tuesday Concert Series
Please join us on July 25th at the Church of the Epiphany in Washington DC for a 45 minute program of French song and arias entitled Voyage Á Paris, highlighting the works of two prominent women composers alongside their male counterparts. Pianist Rebecca Ehren and I welcome you into the music and discussion of the salon culture that existed in Paris in the 18th century which helped so many composers find their voice and have their works premiered. We are excited to see you for the premiere of this program, Voyage A Paris!
The Voice of Triumph: Choralis at the National Presbyterian Church
Featuring music commemorating triumph over adversity in connection with Memorial Day including Vaughn Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem and two works by Cecilia McDowall: Angel of the Battlefield and Every Day Wonders: The Girl from Aleppo, which tells the real-life escape story of wheelchair-bound Nujeen Mustafa and her sister from war-torn Aleppo. Their harrowing journey across 3,500 miles through seven countries eventually find them in Germany with relief and great gratitude.
If Music be the Food of Love
I’m excited to be presenting eight of my talented voice students in recital at the Greencourt Innovation Center in the program “If Music be the Food of Love”. Sonnets will be read and the music includes beautiful and lush songs by Brahms, Purcell, Finzi, Mozart and Rorem. Refreshments will be provided after the concert. I hope you can join us!
The Penelope Project: On the Road to the Film of "Penelope"
In January of 2023 we recorded Cecilia Livingston’s Penelope at the Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey and this fall we are hoping to create the film in the DC metro area. This team of artists is on fire. We still have a long way to go and need help to meet the shortfall in our budget this spring. Please consider a donation to allow us illuminate the voices of women in…film!
Un Ballo in Maschera
A wonderful opera and my fourth appearance with Maryland Lyric Opera in 2022! What a great season of Verdi. Stay tuned for discounted ticket code here.
DC Singer Collective presents its first ever Collaborative Concert
For more information about DC Singer Collective’s upcoming events or to join us as a singer, please email dcsingercollective@gmail.com
Conlon presents Bernstein's Kaddish
Conlon Presents Bernstein's Kaddish
Stunning music and profound words combine to awaken our collective dreams of peace and freedom. In Leonard Bernstein’s “Kaddish” Symphony, the Hebrew prayer for times of bereavement sparks a heated exploration of spirit and fate, a testament made all the more poignant with updated words by a Holocaust survivor Samuel Pisar (narrated here by his family). Artistic Advisor James Conlon, leading a heart-wrenching score by the German-Jewish composer Franz Schreker, explores the latest in his series of Recovered Voices, honoring composers silenced by Nazi regime.
Artists
James Conlon, conductor
Judith and Leah Pisar, speakers
Diana Newman, soprano
University of Maryland Concert Choir
Jason Ferdinand, director
Maryland State Boychoir
Stephen Holmes, director
Repertoire
BRAHMS Tragic Overture
SCHREKER Prelude to Die Gezeichneten (The Stigmatized)
BERNSTEIN Symphony No. 3, “Kaddish”
Le Nozze di Figaro with Opera Panonnica
The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart is a superbly crafted musical comedy, and I’m delighted to be singing the role of the Countess Almaviva for these two performances on the island of Crete! I’ll be sharing updates with my newsletters, so stay tuned for performance locations, productions photos and much more!
Santosha Voice Group: Podcast Discussion Meeting
Enjoy a group discussion of SVG’s first podcast on the Power of Singing. Led by Heather Fetrow, This Zoom meeting will include a Q and A with members of Santosha Voice Group. Topics for discussion include dealing with performance anxiety as a singer, with helpful strategies provided. Sign up for SVG’s mailing list for information on joining the group.
Santosha Voice Group's Podcast Premiere!
I’m so excited to be speaking on Santosha Voice Group’s premiere podcast episode on July 5th! Sign up for the SVG mailing list to get all the updates and welcome to the community! I hope you can tune it to this brief but powerful podcast, entitled The Power of Singing.
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Holst The Planets and Debussy Nocturnes
Please join me for three performances with the BSO and the women of the University of Maryland’s Concert Choir. I am so excited to join these forces for beautiful music making at Meyerhoff Hall in Baltimore on 5/20 and 5/22 and at the Strathmore Music Center on 5/21. Come enjoy the beauty of music to complement your spring-filled spirits.
Don Carlo with Maryland Lyric Opera at Strathmore
Verdi’s masterpiece is filled with beautiful music and intrigue! The chorus makes an appearance with heavenly sounds and harmonies you will love. Please join me in this two-show run. Link for discounted tickets coming soon.
Turandot with Maryland Lyric Opera
I’m really feeling lucky to be singing in the Chorus of Turandot in two performances at the Strathmore Music Center this February, with Maryland Lyric Opera. As Puccini’s last opera, it is truly a special occasion to be able to join forces with so many artists to bring it to audiences live and in person! Strathmore has been a place where I’ve stretched my musicianship in the past, and so I look forward to doing more of that in these performances. I hope you can make it! The music will thrill you.
National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center
I am thrilled and overjoyed to join the chorus for seven concerts with the NSO in December! The first program is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Last Year on Dec. 2-4 and the second program is Noseda conducts Bach’s Magnificat and Handel’s Messiah on Dec. 16-19. For tickets please visit: https://www.kennedy-center.org/nso/home/concerts-and-tickets/all-nso-events/
Queens College Baroque Opera Workshop
I’m honored to be a guest performer and speaker on this virtual version of a Baroque ornamentation masterclass with Queens College Baroque Opera Workshop and Dr. .Julianne Baird. You can still register to attend the class as an observer.
Elizabethtown College Monday Night Concert Series Webinar and Virtual Concert
The Elizabethtown College School of Arts and Humanities will host a virtual concert event highlighting the contributions of women throughout music history as a part of their Monday Concert Series on Monday, March 22 at 7:30 p.m.
Voices of Women: From Unknown to Renowned will feature works created by women and about women in recognition of Women’s History Month. The performance will feature soprano Heather Fetrow and pianist Mila Henry ‘06.
Fetrow made her Carnegie Hall debut with Angels Vocal Art chamber orchestra. As an avid recitalist, recent appearances have included Rutgers University Mallery Recital Series, the Church of the Epiphany Recital Series in Washington, D.C. and the Cell Theater Salon Series in New York City. Fetrow is an advocate for women in the arts through her online business, Voices of Women, which profiles and advocates for women composers and artists.
Henry is a music director, pianist, and conductor, as well as Artistic Director of The American Opera Project (AOP). She serves as Head of Music for their Composers & the Voice training program and is also a member of the alt-country band Opera Cowgirls. Mila holds degrees from the Manhattan School of Music and Elizabethtown College. She is delighted to be bringing this program to her alma mater, on the very same Monday Concert Series she attended as a student.
The Voices of Women: From Unknown to Renowned album was released on the Affetto label and was one of Spotify’s “New Classical Albums of Note” in 2018.
The concert is free and open to the public and will be presented on Zoom.
AMP by Strathmore Video Session
This event will be livestreamed on December 14th, 2020. The link will be provided here as well as on our social media and Patreon pages.
Foundry League Case Study Webinar
An in-depth interview about the process of establishing Heather Fetrow.com as a brand, with music from the Voices of Women: From Unknown to Renowned concert series, artwork and more! Please register in advance:https://foundryleague.com/case-study-heather-fetrow-brand
Earlier Event: June 21
"You call THAT a Cadenza?" Concert has been Postponed to September 2020
"You call THAT a Cadenza?" Concert has been Postponed to September 2020
This series is designed to teach singers to write their own authentic embellishments in vocal works from Mozart to Donizetti.
Elizabethtown College Monday Night Concert Series/Postponed, Date TBA
This concert has been postponed, date tba. Free and open to the public! Voices of Women: Hildegard’s Garden debuts at the Elizabethtown College’s Monday Night Concert Series this spring at the Leffler Chapel and Performing Arts Center. One Alpha Drive Elizabethtown, PA 17022