Welcome to my music space!You can also find more about me at my official web site,
http://daniellewoerner.comand on my personal MySpace page.===============I've been singing since I was practically a baby; I was lucky enough to have parents who both sang. I came of age as a singer in Manhattan, studying with noted private teachers and coaches while pursuing a BA in music at Barnard and then Hunter College (and some years later, well after my career was established, catching up with that sheepskin at last at Bard College.)My musical tastes are eclectic, so although most of my concerts and recordings are in some form of classical music -- art song, chamber music, opera -- I also sing musical theater, jazz, folk, and world music, and did my share of rock & pop earlier in my life. In classical music, I love repertoire ranging from early Baroque through contemporary music with lots of stops along the way. I do a lot of new music, often with the composer. Have been lucky to have pieces written for me by composers including Otto Luening, Robert Starer, Daron Hagen, Stefania de Kenessey, Barry O'Neal, and others. I enjoy helping to "co-create" a new piece, enjoy freer forms like performance art (I think my love of Baroque music stems from the improvisation element), and love to do comedy. Have performed at most of the recital halls in NYC, including Carnegie/Weill, Lincoln Center, CAMI & Merkin, and I sing with orchestras and on concert series throughout the mid-Hudson Valley, and elsewhere, especially on the east coast. This July (07) I did a tour in Spain as a soloist with conductor Harold Rosenbaum and his Canticum Novum Tour Choir.I have two commercial recordings out, "She Walks in Beauty" with music by Otto Luening and Robert Starer on the Parnassus label, and "Voices of the Valley," featuring music of Hudson Valley composers, on Albany Records. Both were produced by the brilliant & wonderful Baikida Carroll. And I'm featured in a live-performance DVD of excerpts from Barbara Benary's gamelan opera, "Karna," based on a story from the Mahabarata epic, with Gamelan Son of Lion. I created the 2 principal female roles, in performances with the rest of the company throughout the east coast before we gave the full work's premiere at La MaMa in NYC. While still in college, I recorded with The Canby Singers for Telarc Records and with Tim Hardin for RCA.Teaching voice and vocal performance is another major aspect of my work -- in my own studios in the Hudson Valley and NYC, and several colleges, currently including Vassar's Drama Dept. I'm a member of NYSTA (NY Teachers of Singing), and I give workshops in singing all over the country. My life & work include an emphasis on the healing capacities of music and singing, for ourselves as individuals as well as the world at large.Increasingly, I'm involved in writing, song writing and arranging, alongside the singing and teaching. I've had articles published in Newsweek and Classical Singer, poetry published in the arts monthly Chronogram, and have done arts feature writing for Hudson Valley Magazine and other mid-Hudson publications. I'm currently working on a novel and two poetry collections, as well as new recording projects for my own label, Woodlark Rising Records. The umbrella company for my creative and teaching work is Woodlark Arts, Inc.In what passes for spare time, I lead a small community choral group called Voices for Peace, which contains several other singer-songwriters as well as committed amateurs. And I try to get out to the garden, at least to keep up with the weeds...I look forward to hearing from you! Danielle
