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 mezzo-soprano Maren Montalbano commissioned Hervararkviða for her recording Sea Tangle: Songs from the North, a collection of new musical works inspired by Nordic history and legends. Performed by Montalbano, violinist Rebecca Harris and harpist Elizabeth Huston, Hervararkviða tells the story of the Nordic young woman Hervor and is based on texts from the Norse Poetic Edda.

Hervararkviða will also be performed live by members of Women in Music Columbus on April 15, 2018 in Capital University’s Huntington Recital Hall. Admission is free.