By Song of America
The winners of the third ASCAP/Lotte Lehmann Foundation Art Song Competition have been announced. The competition, named for legendary soprano Lotte Lehmann, was established to encourage and recognize gifted young composers who write for voice. The three winning composers, who are all of…
By Song of America
The Thomas Hampson Endowment was established in November 2009 by Mr. Hampson in honor of the American Musicological Society’s OPUS Campaign and by the AMS in recognition of Hampson’s outstanding contributions to the field of music as a performer, teacher, and scholar. The…
By Song of America
9/30/09: SF Classical Music Examiner (Stephen Smoliar) Last night in the Concert Hall of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, baritone Thomas Hampson offered one of the most interesting preview events I have ever attended…
By Song of America
9/21/09: San Jose Mercury News (Sue Gilmore) America’s best-known baritone, now in town helping Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony wrap up their long-running Gustav Mahler recording project, is indeed one of the world’s preeminent interpreters of that pensive German Romantic’s…
By Song of America
9/15/09: San Francisco Classical Voice (Jason Victor Serinus) After several decades of championing American art song, baritone Thomas Hampson refuses to let the major label slowdown hold him back. Instead, he’s started the Thomas Hampson Media label, and launched a full-out multimedia American…
