soprano

Shari Wilson is among the new generation of singers specializing in early and modern music, demonstrating great versatility and stylistic sensitivity. The range of ensembles with which she has appeared as soloist is a testament to such virtuosity: Blue Heron, Exsultemus, La Donna Musicale, Lorelei Ensemble, Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia, Piffaro, Church of the Advent, Schola Cantorum, Boston Secession, and the Festival of Two Worlds (Spoleto, Italy). Shari made her New York City solo debut in 2006 at Merkin Hall in a world premiere performance in Benjamin C.S. Boyle's Cantata: To One in Paradise; recent performances have also included a residency with the American Bach Soloists Academy under the direction of Jeffrey Thomas, Telemann cantatas from Harmonischer Gottesdienst with Exsultemus and Newton Baroque, Gabriel in Haydn's Creation with Marsh Chapel Collegium, and a program of Scottish music with Seven Times Salt for the SoHIP concert series. She currently sings with the acclaimed ensemble The Crossing, based in Philadelphia under the direction of Donald Nally, with whom she sang the regional premiere of David Lang's Little Match Girl Passion. Her work at the Festival of Two Worlds brought collaborations with some of the world's great artists, including Gian Carlo Menotti, Richard Hickox, Carlos Saura, and Gunther Kramer. She can be heard on the recent recording of Kile Smith's Vespers with Piffaro and The Crossing, with whom she will be recording music of David Lang and Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen. Of a recent Bach performance a Philadelphia critic wrote that she "sang with...tonal beauty, timbral clarity, lyrical phrasing and rhythmic vitality." She received her MM in choral conducting from Temple University and her BS in piano and voice from West Chester University.

Performances

Jordan Hall at New England Conservatory | April 6, 2012

News and Press

[Concert Review] At BMOP, new works for a somber event

To mark Good Friday, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project brought together two contemporary Passion settings: David Lang's "The Little Match Girl Passion" and Arvo Pärt's "Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi secundum Joannem."

It did not look much like a BMOP concert – only a few instrumentalists were present. But it was an appropriately grave lineup for the darkest day of the Christian calendar.

The Boston Globe Full review
[Concert Review] BMOP marks Good Friday with contrasted "Passions"

People who like the sound of straight-toned voices singing intricate counterpoint at close intervals had a feast at New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall on the evening of Good Friday, as the Boston Modern Orchestra Project presented works with "Passion" in the title by David Lang and Arvo Pärt.

Boston Classical Review Full review
[News Coverage] Minimalist Directness, Mystic Purity

A most uncommon acknowledgment of Good Friday recalling the crucifixion of Jesus Christ occurred at Jordan Hall. It involved the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, a slate of guest soloists, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum. Two reenactments of the passion, one allegorical, by David Lang and the other, from Biblical texts, by Arvo Pärt, adopted a similar, now familiar musical language of minimalism. Both passions were fittingly in minor modes commonly associated with all things sorrowful.

The Boston Musical Intelligencer Full review