Thomas Hampson enjoys a singular international career as a recitalist, opera singer and recording artist, and maintains an active interest in teaching, music research and technology. He has performed in all of the world’s most important concert halls and opera houses with many of today’s most renowned singers, pianists, conductors and orchestras; he is one of the most respected, innovative and sought-after soloists performing today.
Hampson is one of the world’s leading singers of German Lieder (incl. Schubert, Schumann and Mahler) and with his celebrated “Song of America” project, a collaboration with the Library of Congress, has become the “ambassador” of American song. Moreover, he is one of the world’s leading opera singers, having sung more than 70 opera roles in major opera houses all over the world, including over 200 performances at the Metropolitan Opera alone. With roughly 170 recordings on labels such as EMI and Deutsche Grammophon – several of which have won prizes like the Grammy and Gramophone awards – he is also one of the most prolific recording artists of our time.
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In song, you have one of the most amazing diaries of any generation’s culture at a given time.
Thomas Hampson
Host of “Song of America: Singing Self, Hearing Nation” (2024)
Emma Beachy
Emma Beachy is a PhD pre-candidate in historical musicology at the University of Michigan. Her research centers on US popular music traditions from 1950 to the present with a focus on reception, fandom, and digital technologies. She is an active presenter at the American Musicological Society, the Society for American Music, and the Society for Ethnomusicology, and you can find her work in The Journal of Mennonite Studies and The Journal of Jazz Studies.