Works by Purcell, Strauss, and Poulenc.

Eight of the world’s most renowned opera houses nominate one up-and-coming musical talent each for the Stella Maris Vocal Competition 2011. The EUROPA, which combines music and the ocean in a very special way, offers the perfect setting for this extraordinary event. Ms. Albrink has been selected to represent the Washington National Opera in the international competition. She will be competing on the Stella Maris cruise ship while enjoying a ten day cruise around Great Britain.

THE INNOVATION:
Developed at the MIT Media Lab in creative partnership with Chicago Opera Theater and Harvard’s American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.), this groundbreaking production will use specially designed technology including a chorus of robots, a Musical Chandelier, and a set that expressively “comes alive".
THE CONCEPT:
The libretto by former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, from a story by Randy Weiner, explores what we leave behind for the world and our loved ones, as told through an eccentric patriarch, Simon Powers, and his family and friends. The music is by Tod Machover, whose genre-bending work is celebrated for its arching melodic lines, richly nuanced textures, and propulsive rhythms. He is also a pioneer in inventing new technologies for music, including Hyperinstruments that have been used by artists from Yo-Yo Ma to Prince.
THE PRESENTATION:
Visionary director Diane Paulus is renowned for her talent in delivering adventurous productions that touch people emotionally as well as physically through audience participation devices. Set designer Alex McDowell is Hollywood’s go-to guy when directors such as Tim Burton and Steven Spielberg seek an eclectic, dynamic look.

Conducted by Alondra de la Parra

When the eccentric patriarch Simon Powers downloads himself into The System, his entire house comes to life around his family and friends. A groundbreaking new production developed by the MIT Media Lab in partnership with the A.R.T., Death and the Powers explores what we leave behind for the world and our loved ones, using specially designed technology and an expressively animated stage, including a chorus of robots and a musical chandelier. Machover, called “America’s most wired composer” by the L.A. Times, distinctively blends technological and artistic finesse to create a score that is passionately inventive, yet filled with arching melodic lines. Death and the Powers, which receives its world premiere in Monaco in the fall of 2010, is supported by Futurum Association (Monaco), and will be presented in collaboration with Chicago Opera Theater, in association with Opera Boston.

Ms. Albrink will be singing the role of Pamina in a concert version of Mozart's the Magic Flute, conducted by Marin Alsop.

Music at Meyer showcases the most talented, visionary musicians across genres in the intimate, acoustically superb setting of Congregation Emanu-El's 375-seat Martin Meyer Sanctuary. Ms. Albrink and Nancy Albrink, her mother and pianist, will give a recital featuring all new American composers.

Ms. Albrink makes her Kentucky Opera debut as Adina in L'Elisir d'Amore by Donizetti.

Ms. Albrink will be the soprano soloist with the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir on a ten day tour to China.

The Young Artist Performance of Le Nozze di Figaro at the Kennedy Center.

The Figaro story continues in what is often considered Mozart's most perfect opera. After his marriage to Rosina, now the Countess Almaviva, the Count's palace is filled with a tangled web of love affairs. The pageboy Cherubino courts the Countess while the Count pursues the maidservant Susanna who is betrothed to the wily Figaro. With a nearly flawless blend of music and theatricality, The Marriage of Figaro is conducted by Patrick Fournillier and set in a gorgeous production originally conceived by Göran Jarvefelt and directed by Harry Silverstein.

Soprano role of Lucy in "Lucy", a nine minute opera for soprano and baritone by american composer, Tom Cipullo, on a concert featuring soprano, Patricia Racette.

To celebrate the genius and rich diversity of America's sung music, from mid-February to early June 2010, the Washington area's leading performing arts and presenting organizations will present an unprecedented festival of American music for the Voice. The Festival will offer the public a dazzling array of performances and educational opportunities, across a broad range of musical genres, with something to appeal to every kind of musical interest.

Cards, games and puppets. This program, conducted by Marin Alsop, features concert presentations of two 20th-century American operas. One, by Samuel Barber, is sung over a game of cards in ten minutes, followed by a groundbreaking work by George Gershwin, mixing jazz, voice and Americana—laying the foundation for Porgy and Bess. The evening ends with Stravinsky's ballet Pulcinella, its neo-classical music mirroring a puppet tale of madcap comedy.

Tragedy and comedy collide when two sets of performers - one an opera company and the other a commedia dell'arte troupe - are forced to perform together. With stunning melodies and relentless energy, the results are cleverly amusing and touching in this brilliant jewel by Richard Strauss. WNO's Music Director Heinz Fricke conducts this fanciful production by Christian Alexander.

Cover for Nuria in a semi-staged production of Ainadamar conducted by Miguel Harth-Bedoya

Soprano soloist in "Grande Pianola Music" by John Adams with The Academy at Carnegie Hall, conducted by Jeffrey Milarsky

Over the past century American composers have taken up the mantle of Eastern European concert music inspired by klezmer, Hebraic, and spiritual sources. The Pittsburgh Jewish Music Festival's adventuresome chamber music concerts have continued this tradition with members of the Pittsburgh Symphony and guest artists. These programs - repeated in two different venues - will include Meira Warshauer's lovely vocal setting of “Eili Eili” by Hannah Senesh, David Schiff's instrumental Divertimento from the opera “Gimpel the Fool”, and much more.

Emily Albrink will perform the west coast premiere of "Rise and Fall", a song cycle by Jake Heggie.

Washington National Opera's Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program presents Georgian pianist Tamara Sanikidze and American soprano Emily Albrink performing music by Grieg, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, and Rodrigo.

Conducted by Ilan Volkov, directed by Paul Curran.

Solo recital on the Stotsenberg Recital Series at Pepperdine University in conjunction with Songfest. Tomasz Lis, piano.

The Orchestra of Saint Luke's conducted by Robert Spano will perform Osvaldo Golijov's opera "Ainadamar" at Carnegie Hall. Guest soloists include Dawn Upshaw as Margarita, Kelley O'Connor as Lorca, and Emily Albrink as Nuria.

Bizet's Carmen starring Denyce Graves, conducted by Julius Rudel, directed by David Gately.

Annina in La Traviata by Verdi, conducted by Placido Domingo.

I have been selected to be one of 15 young artists in the Steans Institute at the Ravinia Festival. Recital dates include: August 1, 5, 14, 15, and 19.

Ms. Albrink was asked to sing at a gala given by Meet the Composer, honoring Dawn Upshaw for her amazing dedication to new music. Emily will sing "Oh Yemanja", an aria that Ms. Upshaw recorded on her CD, "The World So Wide".

Ms. Albrink will be singing the role of Nuria in Ainadamar opposite Dawn Upshaw as Margarita Xirgu with the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra conducted by Michael Christie.

Now in its 5th season, enCANTA Collective (previously Music at St. Georges) is a New York-based ensemble dedicated to performing innovative programs featuring vocal chamber music. The ensemble presents a series of three concerts each year exploring music from all eras and cultures for voices and instruments.

Wendell Berry is an agrarian poet, essayist and novelist who has inherited the traditions of Emerson and Thoreau. This one-time NYU faculty member left New York City to farm the countryside in Port Royal, Kentucky. He is embraced politically by both the left and right as a prophet. This intimate concert features Soprano Emily Albrink, Tenor Steven Ebel, Pianist Wilson Southerland, Cellist Malina Rauschenfels and Violinist Mitchell Johnson

This concert includes musical settings of his words by Ben Yarmolinsky, Scott Gendel, Forrest Pierce, and world-premiere cycles by Steven Ebel and William George

In a fascinating program exploring German art song, composer, conductor, and radio commentator Rob Kapilow examines how the great 18th- and 19th-century composers Schumann, Schubert, and Wolf all interpreted the same profoundly expressive poem, “Kennst du das Land” by Goethe. Looking at word painting and text setting, Kapilow, with soprano, Emily Albrink, and pianist on hand, takes us through the music with his enthusiastic blend of revealing demonstrations and witty commentary.

As part of the Gheens Foundation Great Expectation Series, Ms. Albrink will be making her recital debut at the Kentucky Center for the Arts, Bomhard Theater. She will also be giving masterclasses at local area schools during a week residency.

Ms. Albrink will be singing Nuria in Ainadamar with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Ms. Albrink will join the New Jersey Youth Symphony singing Mahler's Fourth Symphony conducted by Ankush Kumar Bahl.

Ms. Albrink will join the Meridian Vocal Consort and the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, conducted by Michael Messina, as the soprano soloist in Handel's Messiah.

For 35 years, Dr. J. Reilly Lewis has provided a bi-annual community Messiah sing-along at Christmas and Easter. This is believed to be one of the first and longest running Messiah-Sings presenting the complete oratorio in the DC area. On November 25, 2007, Dr. Lewis will lead full orchestra, harpsichord, organ,guest soloists, and the audience in Part One of George Frideric Handel's Messiah.

Under the direction of Paul Sperry, Ms. Albrink will be joined by three other singers presenting songs by Argento, Beach, Finzi, Hundley, Morley, Quilter, and others

Soprano Emily Albrink and the iO Quartet (Christina McGann and Wayne Lee, violins, Elizabeth Weisser, viola, and Chris Gross, cello) join guitarist/composer David Leisner for the opening concert of North River Music's 22nd season. Leisner and his special guest artists perform a mini-retrospective of Leisner's music, working backwards from the most recent compositions for guitar and string quartet in various combinations to a half-hour song cycle from the mid-1980's, set to women's poems.

The evening's program is set to include two world premieres: Labyrinths for solo guitar (2007) and Bloom for string quartet (2005), as well as the New York premiere of Vision of Orpheus for guitar and string quartet (2000), and, Confiding for soprano and guitar (1985-86).

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Ms. Albrink will be covering the role of Nuria and singing one of the Women in Ainadamar with Opera Boston

Ms. Albrink will be singing the role of Second Lady in The Magic Flute with Indianapolis Opera, conducted by James Caraher.

Maestro James Levine conducts the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra and vocal fellows in Cosi fan Tutte by W.A Mozart. Ms. Albrink sings the role of Despina.

Michael Christie conducts this "flamenco opera" in one act. Composed by Osvaldo Golijov, Ainadamar is sung in Spanish with English subtitles. Ms. Albrink sings the role of Nuria with Jessica Rivera as Margarita Xirgu and Kelley O'Connor as Federico Garcia Lorca.