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Welcome to the Golden Age of Belgian Mélodie:
Art Song from the Belle Epoque to the Roaring Twenties
May 1, 2025

Our International Art Song Competition

Winner's Concert will take place February 18, 2025 by winner Alexandra Hotz, Soprano

More information to come

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ALEXANDRA HOTZ, soprano
With a magnetic stage presence and captivating artistry described as “soul-stirring” (Voice Magazine Santa Barbara), soprano Alexandra Rose Hotz is equally at home on the opera, concert, and recital stages. She has been seen as Frasquita in Carmen and Le Feu in L’enfant et les sortilèges with the Music Academy of the West as well as the title role in Handel’s Alcina, and Phaino in Kate Soper’s Here be Sirens with Eastman Opera Theatre. As a concert soloist, she has interpreted a diverse repertoire, including Bernstein’s West Side Story Concert Suite, Stephen Stucky’s Sappho Fragments, Mahler’s Second Symphony, oratorios by Handel and Haydn, and cantatas by Bach and Tom Cipullo. A passionate recitalist, she joined as a fellow for the Cincinnati Song Initiative’s inaugural Fellowship of the Song in May, performing in song concerts coached by Margo Garrett. Ms. Hotz has been awarded Second Place in Opera Birmingham’s Vocal Competition, Third Place in the Artist Division at the NOA’s Carolyn Bailey Argento Vocal Competition, and recognition as a winner at the Los Angeles District, along with an Encouragement Award at the Western Regional Auditions of the Laffont Metropolitan Opera Competition. Currently based in Southern California and originally from Toledo, OH, she recently received the Doctorate of Musical Arts at the Eastman School of Music, where she also received her Masters under the tutelage of Anthony Dean Griffey

Many thanks to everyone who adjudicated during this year's competition cycle
We are especially grateful to collaborative pianists as well



JOY IN SINGING | DALTON BALDWIN
                                    
                                      ART SONG INSTITUTE

 An educational resource offering workshops and training in all facets of song and song performance (including history, technique, interpretation and deportment), Joy In Singing, the Art Song Institute, hosts a  competition for singers and their pianists with a New York City Debut Recital for the winners, art song concert programs, and public Master Classes, inaugurated in 1958 by our Founder, Winifred Cecil. 

Winifred Cecil Joy In Singing founder
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We offer artists and audiences many opportunities to experience and learn about this highly varied and wonderful music. 

If you have ever attended a Debut Award Recital
known a child whose school was visited by

Song As A Second Language

been to a SongSalon,  or participated
in a Joy In Singing Master Class,

please support our work with a donation.

Donations are tax deductible under the laws governing 501(c) 3 nonprofits.  

Thank you for your support!

We look forward to seeing you at our next event!

DALTON BALDWIN 

December 19, 1931 –December 12, 2019

Dalton Baldwin
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