Show Notes
Steven Blier is the co-founder and artistic director of the New York Festival of Song, and has served as programmer/translator/pianist/arranger of more than 150 of its programs.
He has been a recital collaborator with some of the great singers of our time, including Renée Fleming and Cecilia Bartoli. He has recorded on the Koch, New World, Nonesuch, Albany, and RCA labels, and he won a Grammy Award in 1990. He was also nominated for Grammy Awards in 1999 and 1989. Most recently, he issued six new albums on NYFOS Records, including Schubert/Beatles with Theo Hoffman and Julia Bullock.
Blier has been on the faculty of the Juilliard School since 1993, and has given master classes around the U.S. in song repertoire. A longtime feature writer for Opera News Magazine, he has been guest faculty/recitalist at the Wolf Trap Opera, Santa Fe Opera, the Steans Institute at the Ravinia Festival, and San Francisco Opera.
He holds a BA degree from Yale University, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa.
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