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What a great evening at the @stlsymphony celebrating music educators. From Mozart to Dilworth, it was a concert to remember, and so much fun! Thanks to the incredible team that put this together, to all the orchestra players and singers, and to the incredibly enthusiastic audience! And the special thanks to all of my teachers, who were up there on the podium with me today.

A marvelous, inspiring evening with the @stlsymphony chorus at the @pulitzerarts ! @davidlangmusic ‘s When I Am Alone was emotional and whimsical, garnering reactions from giggles to tears. Combined with the creative and transformative work of Olga de Amaral, this was art, creativity, and humanity at its best!

Final piece on @citychoirdc ‘s November program - youthful, feisty, and sublime: Mozart’s Solemn Vespers, with soloists from the @wolftrapopera Studio program. First rehearsal is next week! Can’t wait!

The countdown to @citychoirdc ‘s 26-27 season opener continues with the East Coast Premiere of Tarik O’Regan’s Critical Mass! Look at these brand new scores - can’t wait to start working on this powerful piece.

Counting down to @citychoirdc ‘s first rehearsal for our November concert! Just picked up Robert Shafer’s new piece — Love a new work, especially by our founder!

Marvelous evening at @wolftrapopera featuring all kinds of @citychoirdc connections. @tessa.mcqueen and @sorenctpedersen, two previous City Choir soloists as part of our collab with Wolf Trap Opera Studio, were spectacular; City Choir tenor LJ Williams @theycallmeeljay had a great dramatic moment as a member of the chorus; and our friends in the @kcohomusicians @washnatopera orchestra played with their usual excellence and heart! An evening full of incredible singing, good friends, harrowing drama, and even some well timed thunder. Thanks, @ariannazukerman ! 💔🔪🗡️👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

It may be August, but I’m looking back on our end-of-season St. Louis Symphony Chorus party with fondness! After putting the chorus through a full-scale re-audition project last Spring year, I thought it was only fair to run myself through the gauntlet too. Yes—a full audition in front of the chorus (and a oscillating fan): aria, vocalizing, ear training, and an excerpt from Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms (complete with custom words, of course!). 🎶😅 To top off an unforgettable evening, they presented me with a #purplebaton—part of Marin Alsop’s global campaign celebrating women conductors and leaders. We start our landmark 50th anniversary season in just a few short weeks, and I can’t wait to be back in the room with these incredible musicians!

10 coffee talks, 4 pre-concert discussions, four concerts, several classes, and 1 world premiere—what a season at Wintergreen Music! ⛰️🎶 And those were just my performances! There were 12 more premieres, 4 other conductors, and dozens of chamber music performances. Some days had four shows! There were biscuits, cookies, tater tots, and wine. There was dancing, laughter, tears, and views. There was rain, barred owls, luna moths, and baby deer (and some ticks, if I’m honest). There were tiaras, muumuus, sneakers, t-shirts, and high heels. 👠👟 We celebrated American music from Gospel to Rachmaninoff, from Bluegrass to Price. We honored historic female composers and featured our students. We had not one, but two choruses—leading to multiple people deciding to join a choir year-round! But the true lifeblood of the @wintergreenmusic Festival is the people: the incredible festival artists, conductors, composers, teachers, singers, students, board, housing hosts, guest musicians, staff, audience, coffee talk patrons, volunteers, partners, resort staff, and personal visitors. What an exhausting, fulfilling, and deeply meaningful summer. Still taking it all in! ✨

Happy to be sharing the podium today with @nicoletta.moss for @wintergreenmusic Patriotic Pops tonight! It’s hot, but we’re catching a few mountain breezes for an all-American spectacular: music of Copland, Price, Schwartz, Ellington, Rodgers, Tiberio, Sousa, and more!

The Dunlop Pavilion is going up today, so that must mean the 2026 @wintergreenmusic is about to begin! Excited to lead the incredible Wintergreen Festival Orchestra, collaborate with marvelous guest artists and admired colleagues, and host morning coffee talks to explore the stories behind the season. So grateful to spend every summer surrounded by inspiration, fresh mountain air, and great music. Here are my performing and speaking events this summer – come join me!

A lovely and lively week with @liveartstoledo - Toledo Ballet and Symphony artists, crew, teachers, leaders and volunteers were so welcoming. Had a chance to connect with @maggiegpb from my old @atlyoungsingers days and work with @richmondballet alum David Claypoole. Oh, and the hotel was on a beautiful creek and nature preserve. All around a fun week of Coppélia! Thanks to all!

La de da de da de da de da! One more memory of Sunday’s Music Man show with @citychoirdc @armybobby @susan_derry @washnatopera