Lucy Yates’ piano and harpsichord playing have taken her throughout North and South America and Europe in orchestral and chamber music. She is also active as a coach and vocal accompanist. As a soprano she has been a featured guest of numerous American and Italian houses and of major festivals including Spoleto, Ravinia, and Aldeburgh. She has collaborated with such conductors, composers and directors as Plácido Domingo, Gian Carlo Menotti and Franco Zeffirelli.
Miss Yates’ hands and voice are equally sought after in very old and very new music. This season she recorded new works of Armand Qualliotine with the Prague Radio Symphony under Julius Williams and performed with the Lumen New Music Ensemble. She was heard twice last year at Symphony Space, playing on the “Masters of Modern American Art Song” program and singing in Tom Cipullo’s Glory Deniedwith the Center for Contemporary Opera. She was also heard twice at Saint John the Divine, with Frederick Renz and the New York Ensemble for Early Music and again under the baton of Glen Cortese in the annual Concert for Peace.
Other recent appearances include the Bitter End, Kalvos and Damian’s New Music Bazaar, the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, and the Colony at Woodstock. From 2000-2005 she served as music director and principal pianist for the New York vocal quintet ArtSong Nouveau, with whom she recently performed with Carly Simon at the Bard Festival.
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