14 April 2008
New York City
ComposersCollaborative Inc. - Serial Underground
The Cornelia Street Café
29 Cornelia Street
New York, NY 10014
SERAPHIM — Gilda Lyons, voice, Elaine Valby, voice, and Robert La Rue, cello — joins ComposersCollaborative Inc. for its Serial Underground series.

16 February 2008
Milwaukee, WI
The Milwaukee Choral Artists premiere a new work by Gilda Lyons, commissioned by the ensemble in celebration of its Tenth Anniversary, to be recorded for release in fall of 2008.

6 November 2007
New York City
The Century Association
The Century Association presents the Phoenix Players in a performance of Daron Hagen's The Antient Concert — a 'dramatic recital in one act' — staged by the composer; with libretto by Paul Muldoon.
James Demler, baritone
Elem Eley, baritone
Elaine Valby, mezzo
Gilda Lyons, soprano
Jocelyn Dueck, piano

4 November 2007
South Hadley, MA
Mount Holyoke College Orchestra
Eric Benjamin, Conductor
The Mount Holyoke College Orchestra performs Gilda Lyons' Monarch as the grand finale of their "The Chronological Concert".

20 October 2007
South Hadley, MA
Mount Holyoke College Orchestra
Eric Benjamin, Conductor
The Mount Holyoke College Orchestra performs Gilda Lyons' Monarch.

13 October 2007
Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn Conservatory of Music
58 7th Avenue in Park Slope, 8:00 PM
TWO SIDES SOUNDING, Eleanor Taylor, soprano, and Jocelyn Dueck, piano, perform Gilda Lyons' Songs of Lament and Praise, commissioned by the duo in 2007, on the New Music Collective at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music.

08 October 2007
New York City
ComposersCollaborative Inc. — Serial Underground
The Cornelia Street Café
29 Cornelia Street
New York, NY 10014
SERAPHIM — Gilda Lyons, voice, Elaine Valby, voice, and Robert La Rue, cello — joins ComposersCollaborative Inc. for its Serial Underground series.

05 October 2007
New York City
The Phoenix Concerts
of St. Matthew & St. Timothy
26 West 84th Street, 8:00 PM
Witches, Ghosts and Fairy Tales — music for voice and piano — begins The Phoenix Concerts' 2007/08 season and features tenor Paul Sperry, mezzo Elaine Valby and pianist Jocelyn Dueck. The event also features the premiere of a new cycle commissioned by and written for Paul Sperry.


10 September 2007
New York City
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
SERAPHIM — Gilda Lyons, voice, Elaine Valby, voice, and Robert La Rue, cello — performs selected works commissioned by the ensemble for the 07-08 season.

31 August 2007
New York City
The Cornelia Street Café
29 Cornelia Street
New York, NY 10014
SERAPHIM — Gilda Lyons, voice, Elaine Valby, voice, and Robert La Rue, cello — performs on Cornelia Street's program of "Opera and Song Cycles".

July - August 2007
Resident Artist, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

June 2007
Gilda Lyons receives The ASCAP Foundation's Charles Kingsford Fund Commission.

16 June 2007
New York City
Symphony Space Peter Sharp Theater
2537 Broadway at 95th Street
New York, NY 10025, 7:00-8:00 PM
Bloomsday on Broadway XXVI presents the professional American concert premiere of Daron Hagen's The Antient Concert — a 'dramatic recital in one act' — with libretto by Paul Muldoon.
James Demler, baritone
Elem Eley, baritone
Elaine Valby, mezzo
Gilda Lyons, soprano
Jocelyn Dueck, piano

18 May 2007
New York City
St. Matthew & St. Timothy
26 West 84th Street, 7:30 PM
The world premiere of Slavko Krstic's song cycle for soprano and piano: Sphinxes.
Gilda Lyons, voice
Marc Peloquin, piano


27 April 2007
New York City
The Phoenix Concerts
of St. Matthew & St. Timothy
26 West 84th Street, 8:00 PM
SERAPHIM, Gilda Lyons, voice, Elaine Valby, voice, and Robert La Rue, cello, return to The Phoenix Concerts to premiere new works by composers Hayes Biggs and Paula M. Kimper, commissioned by the trio for the 2006/07 season.


30, 31 March 2007
Brooklyn, NY
American Opera Projects
138 South Oxford Street, 8:00 PM
Gilda Lyons’ one act opera The Walled-Up Wife receives its concert premiere, presented by American Opera Projects on the FIRST CHANCE series.

About The Walled-Up Wife
An opera in one act, The Walled-Up Wife sets an ancient tale of foundation sacrifice. As three royal brothers attempt to build a citadel, their efforts fail until a high priest reveals that, for the citadel to stand, one of their wives must be immured within it. After a series of betrayals, the youngest bride is tricked into delivering herself to the worksite where she is built into the foundation. She sings a lullaby to her infant son as the final bricks bind her to her fate. For mroe information, click here.

Music Direction: Steven Osgood
Pianist: Jocelyn Dueck
Soprano: Ruth Cunningham
Mezzo: Elaine Valby
Tenor: Daniel Neer

13 March 2007
New York City
Saint Peter's Church
619 Lexington Ave. at 54th Street
TWO SIDES SOUNDING, Eleanor Taylor, soprano, and Jocelyn Dueck, piano, premiere Gilda Lyons' Songs of Lament and Praise, commissioned by the duo in 2007.


1,2,3 March 2007
New York City
Dance New Amsterdam
280 Broadway, 2nd fl. (at Chambers St.)

Songs for Solo Dance and Voice
Gilda Lyons — voice
Elaine Valby — voice
Paula M. Kimper — guitar
Amy Pivar — dance/choreography
Thursday, March 1 at 8:00 PM
Friday, March 2 at 8:00 PM
Saturday, March 3 at 8:00 PM

20 February 2007
New York City
The Cutting Room
19 West 24th Street
SWEET PLANTAIN performers newly commissioned works, including Gilda Lyons' Bone Needles for string quartet.

19 February 2007
Pittsburgh, PA
Bellefield Auditorium
Gilda Lyons performs the role of Pamela in the concert premiere of the orchestral version of Daron Hagen's opera Broken Pieces with the Music on the Edge Chamber Orchestra conducted by Roger Zahab.

12 February 2007
Pittsburgh, PA
Bellefield Auditorium
University of Pittsburgh faculty member and violinist Roger Zahab performs Gilda Lyons' Owl Light as part of a 'Music Mondays at Bellefield Hall' concert including works by Corelli, Paganini, Zahab, and others.

15 December 2006 New York City The Phoenix Concerts of St. Matthew & St. Timothy 26 West 84th Street, 8:00 PM Silent Night A Suite of Carols for Voices and Cello by Daron Hagen Gilda Lyons, soprano Elaine Valby, mezzo-soprano Robert Frankenberry, tenor Jim Gregory, bass Robert La Rue, cello conducted by the composer

18 November 2006
Bronx, NY
Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance
841 Barretto Street 2nd Floor
(718) 842-5223
Gilda Lyons performs On Her Decision to Stop Wearing Clothes by Paula Kimper and her own Bone Needles (both works for two female voices; Paula Kimper performs guitar in her own work) with mezzo soprano Elaine Valby as music for dancer / choreographer Amy Pivar. The director is Freda Rosen.

4, 5 November 2006
Buffalo, NY
Buffalo Philharmonic, JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Kleinhans Music Hall
3 Symphony Circle
Saturday, November 4th at 8:00 PM
Sunday, November 5th at 2:30 PM
Gilda Lyons sings the role of the Maid in the Buffalo Philharmonic’s semi-staged concert production of Daron Hagen’s opera Shining Brow.

29 September 2006 New York City The Phoenix Concerts of St. Matthew & St. Timothy 26 West 84th Street, 8:00 PM Thy Lucifer — by Gilda Lyons receives world premiere, performed by Daniel Gundlach, countertenor, Mark Crayton, countertenor, and James Janssen, pianist.

22, 23 September 2006
Brooklyn, NY
American Opera Projects
138 South Oxford Street, 7:30 PM
Excerpts from Gilda Lyons’ one act opera The Walled-Up Wife are presented in American Opera Projects’ SIX SCENES 2006, the final presentations of compositions developed during this season’s Composers & the Voice Series.

July 2006
Resident Artist, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

20 May 2006
Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn Conservatory of Music
58 7th Avenue in Park Slope, 7:00 PM
Soprano Eleanor Taylor and pianist Jocelyn Dueck perform A Rocking Hymn and No Fame, No Trace by Gilda Lyons on the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music’s New Music Collective Concert.

19, 20 May 2006
Brooklyn, NY
American Opera Projects
138 South Oxford Street
American Opera Projects presents new works by composers featured in the 2005-2006 Composers and the Voice Series: James Borchers, David Claman, Conrad Cummings, Jeff Grace, Hannah Lash, and Gilda Lyons.

18 May 2006
AOP premieres Gilda Lyons' The Wallabout Martyrs, Robert Mack, tenor. On Thursday, May 18 at 12PM at Brooklyn's Fort Greene Park a groundbreaking ceremony for the restoration of the historic Prison Ship Martyrs Monument will feature the premiere of the song The Wallabout Martyrs by composer Gilda Lyons. Commissioned by American Opera Projects and the Walt Whitman Project, The Wallabout Martyrs sets Walt Whitman’s writings about the British prison ships where thousands of American patriots died during the American Revolution. The a cappella composition will be performed by tenor Robert Mack. Both Ms. Lyons and Mr. Mack are participants in this season's Composers & the Voice program. The event will also feature a brief presentation by Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner David McCullough, author of 1776.

14 May 2006
New York City
Nicholas Roerich Museum
319 West 107th Street, 5:00 PM
Charms and Blessings — Gilda Lyons
Gilda Lyons, voice
Ann Roggen, viola

12 May 2006 New York City Church of St. Matthew & St. Timothy 26 West 84th Street, 8:00 PM Owl-Light — Gilda Lyons Roger Zahab, violin

21, 22, 23 April 2006
New York City
Dance New Amsterdam
280 Broadway, 2nd fl. (at Chambers St.)
OBject/obJECT Showcase
On Her Decision to Stop Wearing Clothes — Paula Kimper
Bone Needles — Gilda Lyons
Gilda Lyons — voice
Elaine Valby — voice
Paula M. Kimper — guitar
Amy Pivar — dance/choreography
Freda Rosen — direction
Friday, April 21 at 8:00 PM
Saturday, April 22 at 8:00 PM
Sunday, April 23 at 2:00 PM

29 October 2005
Bowling Green, Ohio
The Moore Musical Arts Center; Bryan Recital Hall
Presented by the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music
26th Annual New Music and Art Festival
Bowling Green State University, 2:00 PM
Three Robes
Song Cycle on Poems of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill by Gilda Lyons

21 October 2005
New York City
Church of St. Matthew & St. Timothy
26 West 84th Street, 8:00 PM
An Evening of Songs by Daron Hagen
Phantoms of Myself (Susan Griffin); Letting Go (American poets); Broken Pieces (Barbara Grecki) performed by Gilda Lyons, soprano; Robert Frankenberry, tenor; Jocelyn Dueck, piano.

23 September 2005
New York City
Church of St. Matthew & St. Timothy; 26 West 84th Street; 8:00 PM
Songs for Two Voices and Cello
A Concert of World Premieres
Sappho Songs — Daron Hagen; 10 of 10,000 — Paula M. Kimper; Incantations — Gilda Lyons performed by Gilda Lyons, voice; Elaine Valby, voice; Robert LaRue, cello.

8 September 2005
New York City
Christ & St. Stephen's Episcopal Church
120 West 69th Street; 1:00 PM
Excerpts from The Bridge of San Luis Rey, an opera by Paula M. Kimper based on the novel by Thornton Wilder
Presented by David S. McIntosh for the students of Capgemini
Gilda performs the role of Camila.

11 June 2005
Fire Island, New York
Elaine Valby performs the Lyons song Seven Times as part of a dance / song collaboration with choreographer dancer Amy Pivar. (Seven Times has been published by E.C. Schirmer and will be released sometime this year.)

20 May 2005
Brooklyn, New York
Gilda creates the role of Pamela in the East Coast premiere of Daron Hagen's one act opera Broken Pieces at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. Robert Frankenberry plays Antonio; the accompanist is Jocelyn Dueck.

21 February 2005
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Roger Zahab premieres the new Lyons composition for solo violin Owl-Light in recital at Bellefield Concert Hall at 8 PM. Owl-light, known also as "Blindman's Holiday" and to the French as Entre chien et loup (Between dog and wolf), is the hour of dusk when it is too dark to work but still too bright to light candles. It is the time of day when shadow and haze blur the world around us. A new light, albeit short lived, is born of the union of day and night. Owl-Light, for solo violin, plays with this space between opposites setting quick gestures against sustained tones, pizzicato phrases against legato lines, and airy bowings against the snap pizz. The piece is about five minutes long. ­