Maren’s solo in Edie Hill’s Spectral Spirits was called out in this RARB.org review of The Crossing’s 2022 Grammy-nominated album, BORN. Read the full article here. “Soloists Maren Montalbano and Rebecca Myers blow me away…”Montalbano’s mezzo frames many of the choral pieces with short namings of the birds in question, a recitative that has its […]
Melissa Dunphy’s Hervararkviða, which was written for Sea Tangle: Songs from the North, has gotten a second life in Ohio. It was featured on The American Sound on Radio WOSU in March 2018. A Gender-Bending Viking Warrior Claims Her Birthright in Three Songs by Composer Melissa Dunphy By Jennifer Hambrick – March 19, 2018 Philadelphia-based […]
For those of you who missed Ms. Montalbano’s recital on March 20, there will be another chance to hear Jeremy Gill‘s Helian and Benjamin C.S. Boyle‘s Le passage des rêves on the New Music Philadelphia Webcast this Wednesday, May 12, 2010. Both composers will be discussing their works immediately before the webcast, so tune in! […]
Ms. Montalbano recorded some demos of a new opera project by London composer Pete Wyer for the Royal Opera House in London earlier in March, and the recordings are up on his MySpace page. Tracks featuring Maren: Green Tara Mantra Walking Towards Freedom Ga Sho (May You Be Loved) Tsenjol (Exile) Pete writes about this […]