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Infrastructure represents over 25 years of David Sisco’s work as an art song composer, with rousing performances by the artists below.
David Fung, piano
Michael Kelly, baritone
Elizabeth Mondragon, mezzo-soprano
Laura Stricking, soprano
Label: Métier/First Inversion
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This album is a collection of vocal and chamber works written by composer Victoria Bond. It features a song cycle called From an Antique Land composed for Michael and pianist Bradley Moore. Performances by The Cassatt Quartet round out the recording with music inspired by a Georgia O’Keefe painting.
Label: Albany Records
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This unabashedly eclectic album features stirring and varied songs by American composer Ben Moore written over a period of 30-odd years, ranging from modern art song to musical theater and cabaret. The texts span 2,600+ years, from the ancient poet Sappho to contemporary lyrics.
Conceived early in the COVID-19 pandemic, Gathering is united by its message of hope in troubled times and hope for a brighter future.
Alongside one of today’s leading collaborative pianists, Brian Zeger, the album features an extraordinary group of singers capable of performing in a wide range of musical styles: Isabel Leonard, Liz Callaway, Matthew Polenzani, Janai Brugger, Michael Kelly, Alexander Gemignani, and Joseph Lattanzi.
Label: Delos Music
Websites: Martin Hennessy, Stephen Kitsakos
Three singles are available from the hit one-man cabaret opera, The Pleasing Recollection. Created for Michael and pianist Bénédicte Jourdois by composer Martin Hennessy and librettist Stephen Kitsakos, the opera chronicles the journey of a gay man in NYC in the 1970’s and 80’s as he finds career success and eventually true love.
“The songs flow one into the other, continuing through and under the interstitial monologues as the young man treats us to one amazing anecdote after another.”
“Kelly offered up a resonant and truly controlled classically-trained voice, superb diction, and a witty acting style with surprising depth…”
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The Voices and Bridges is an ongoing multi-lingual, multicultural collaboration between musicians of many parts of the world, including Alireza Ghorbani (lead vocalist), Bombay Jayashri, Celia Woodsmith, Qaiser Nizami, Michael Kelly, Solange Meridinian, Maya Hobeika, Olcay Bayir, and others.
The purpose and mission of the project is to bring together diverse musical and poetic traditions and introduce them to the world. In this record, each artist explores what brings together the languages of ancient cultures, including Persian, Spanish, Arabic, English, Turkish, Bengali, Urdu, Kashmiri, and French, in the hopes of celebrating the diversity of cultural traditions from around the world.
With lyrics borrowed from a wide selection of renowned poets, the album blends medieval and modern works. The original music, performed by pioneer musicians and vocalists from across the globe, was written and composed by Ehsan Matoori.
Michael is featured on “The Love Metaphor” track.
Label: Bright Shiny Things
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Zabur is a modern oratorio written by Mohammed Fairouz, commissioned and premiered by the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir and conducted by Eric Stark.
Michael Kelly sings the role of the biblical character, David, depicted in modern day Syria in a bomb shelter. Feeling lost and despondent, the archangel Gabriel visits him; together, they find the strength to go on and to inspire those around them with songs of hope and love.
Label: Naxos
“Baritone Michael Kelly poured himself into the work as if he’d seen some of the horrors in person; to hear such emotive singing was uplifting, even though the subject matter was uncomfortable and troubling.”
With the Fireworks Ensemble and soprano Courtenay Budd, Michael Kelly performed and recorded David Del Tredici's A Field Manual. Conducted by Steven Mercurio, these songs are chamber settings of poetry by Edward Field of varying subjects, often explicit in content.
Label: eOne (now MNRK Music Group)