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Classicsonline Home » Artists » » Shelton, Lucy

Lucy Shelton

The only artist to receive the International Walter W. Naumburg Award twice, as a soloist and as a chamber musician, soprano Lucy Shelton has performed repertoire from Bach to Boulez in major recital, chamber and orchestral venues throughout the world. Highly acclaimed as an interpreter of new music, she continues to bring new audiences into the sound world of new works, often composed for her. Notable among numerous world premieres are Elliott Carter’s Of Challenge and Of Love and his Tempo e Tempi, Oliver Knussen’s Whitman Settings, Stephen Albert’s Flower of the Mountain, Joseph Schwantner’s Sparrows and his Two Poems of Agueda Pizarro and Magabunda, Alexander Goehr’s Sing, Ariel and The Mouse Metamorphosed Into a Maid, David Del Tredici’s Quaint Events, Poul Ruder’s The Bells, Gérard Grisey’s L’Icone Paradoxiale, Ned Rorem’s Schuyller Songs, Sally Beamish’s Monster, James Yannatos’s Trinity Mass, Lewis Spratlan’s Of Time and the Seasons, and Rob Zuidam’s Johanna’s Lament. She also performs her standard repertoire in venues across the United States and in Europe, including Berio’s Folk Songs, Babbitt’s Philomel, Knussen’s Hums and Songs