Jennifer Perez, Soprano

Hi friends! If you're looking to enjoy some seriously gorgeous music this season, there are several chances to catch New Mexico's own Santa Fe Desert Chorale for our Candelight Carols program, our Family Concert, and/or any one of our pop up carols. I am simply honored to be singing alongside these incredible musicians and human beings, led by the brilliant Joshua Habermann, and we are so excited to share this music with you. Hope to see you soon! 🖤❄️🎶

What a magical night of music making with beautiful people for a beautiful cause! Thank you, Sarah Nickerson and LifeLink, for a truly special experience! 🖤

Super excited to be a part of this annual fundraiser for LifeLink, tomorrow at the Lensic Theater (5:30pm reception, 6:30-8pm show). Focusing on Housing Support, Behavioral Health, and Human Trafficking After Care Community Welness, LifeLink's mission is to provide vulnerable community members with services they need to rebuild their lives, so if you're looking for a good cause to support, this is it! The fundraiser will include stories of hope and inspiration, as well as musical performances by JJ and the Hooligans, Alex Maryol, my bestie, Javier Ortiz, and our little wailin trio, Sarah Nickerson, Hayden Eberhart, and I. We'd love to serenade you! 🖤🎶🎙

Keep Hope Alive | The Lensic At The Life Link, our mission has always been to Keep Hope Alive, especially for our community members struggling with housing, addiction, and exploitation. As we experience an increase in mental health challenges our compassionate support for one another is crucial. Join us for our Keep Hope Alive....

Hey friends! I hope you're enjoying this cool weather as much as I am and that your holidays unfold magically. If you're looking to enhance your life, love, and family time with gorgeous music, this is the season to do it!

This Friday, Dec. 1st, I'll be joining the ethereal Cathedral of St. John choir in Albuquerque, led by the brilliant Maxine Thevenot, for an evening service of Advent Lessons & Carols (6pm), including excerpts from the Messiah as well as music of Palestrina, Willcocks, Bainton, June Nixon, and Robin Fullalove. If you've never been to an evening music service at the Cathedral of St. John, it's quite the experience and I highly recommend it!

Saturday, Dec. 2nd, I'll be singing with the Sangre de Cristo Chorale in Santa Fe, led by my dear friend, George Case, for their holiday concert, "A Winter's Night" (St. Bede's Episcopal Church- 4pm). This program includes some of the most beloved carols and romantic gems for the season, with music of Ola Gielo, Vaughan Williams, Eric Whitacre, and more. Tickets may be purchased at sdchorale.org.

Lastly for this weekend, Sunday, Dec 3rd, I'm super happy to be joining my friends/colleagues, Sarah Nickerson and Hayden Eberhart, for a short and sweet performance of trios for the incredible local organization, The Life Link, and their "Keep Hope Alive" fundraiser (Lensic Theater- 6:30pm). Tickets are on sale now. You can also catch Sarah, Hayden, and I (as well as many other amazing singers) in the Santa Fe Desert Chorale's winter program, Candelight Carols.

Be sure to also check out all the other fabulous groups in Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and surrounding areas. This is an incredible time for music making, and we all look forward to sharing this music with you! Hope to see you soon! ❄️🎶🖤

Hey friends! Due to unforeseen circumstances, our Winter Solstice concert scheduled for today in Albuquerque has been rescheduled to January. If you bought tickets, be on the lookout for an email from NMPAS. Apologies for the inconvenience and hope to see you there in January!

This Friday, November 24 (Santa Fe) and Sunday, November 26 (Albuquerque), I'll be joining the New Mexico Bach Society Chorale for a beautiful program of music for the holiday season. It's going to be a particularly gorgeous program, featuring two major works by Johann Sebastian Bach, as well as motets and choral settings by Cherubini, Gibbons, F.J. Haydn, Holst, Liszt, Reichardt and Victoria. I truly hope to see you there! ❄️🕯🎼

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Upcoming Events - NMPAS WINTER SOLSTICE CONCERTS The 2023 Winter Solstice concerts feature two major works by Johann Sebastian Bach, as well as motets and choral settings by Cherubini, Gibbons, F.J. Haydn, Holst, Liszt, Reichardt and Victoria. Artistic Director Franz Vote leads members of the New Mexico Bach Society Choral...

It's always such a joy to work with my friend and colleague, Andre Garcia-Nuthmann! Excited to join his NMHU choir for a program of Mozart and Schubert tomorrow at the Ilfeld Auditorium in Las Vegas... and that gorgeous drive does not hurt!

Hi friends! If you missed our immersive performance of Glory Gone by Nathan Felix, here is a video of the entire performance, stitched together from rehearsal and performance footage, as well as a video of interviews during the creation process. From working with such a great group of people to put it together within one week, to witnessing such an attentive and engaged audience as our "stage" moved from building to building on the UNM campus, this really was such a rewarding experience, start to finish!

https://youtu.be/zBVvdvjSy-A?si=Zy2h70p8XbZQnOw1

https://youtu.be/5fx8j5WKn-g?si=EHNBRSe_CN9yyJWh

Glory Gone Documentary Mexican-American composer Nathan Felix presented his new immersive opera, Glory Gone at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology on Thursday September 14th 2023. H...

Hi friends, just wanted to share a couple of things coming up!

Excited to be joining the Sangre de Cristo Chorale for their "Windfall Light" program this weekend, featuring music of Randall Thompson, John Corigliano, Samual Barber, and Irving Fine. This program is really going to be a treat, as it includes two American 20th Century masterworks, one in which the lovely Sarah Nickerson will grace us with a gorgeous mezzo-soprano solo 🖤
Saturday, October 14th-4pm @ St. Bede's Episcopal Church, Santa Fe
Tickets: https://sdcchorale.org/concerts

I'll also be joining a small, yet mighty, group of singers for a program presented by the New Mexico Performing Arts Society and the New Mexico Highlands University. This will include highlights from some of the most beloved Zarzuelas (Spanish operas), Torroba's Luisa Fernanda, Arrieta's Marina, and Breton's La Verbena de la Poloma, to name a few!
Sunday, October 15th-4pm @ The Historic Plaza Hotel Ballroom, Las Vegas
Tickets are General Admission, $10 at the door.

Lastly, I'll be guest hosting on 95.5 KHFM for Sacred Hours this Sunday, October 15th from 7-10am, so tune in (or stream online at khfm.org) if you'd like to catch me!

It's always a joy to work with the fabulous Maxine Thevenot and her incredibly talented cathedral choir. I hope you'll join us this Sunday, October 1st, for a concert of great repertoire celebrating the birthday of a master and anniversary of a masterpiece, as well as Friday the 6th for their Evensong service, which, if you've never experienced, I highly recommend! 🖤🎼🎶

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My last couple of weeks of musical adventure included two immersive experiences and a recital of art songs, arias, and broadway musical numbers:

Glory Gone, composed by Nathan Felix, explored the theme of restoring voices and the search for one’s purpose and identity in the face of discrimination. It was premiered on September 14th at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology in Albuquerque to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month.

Transient Landscapes, created by composer, Matthew Burtner and percussionist, Matthew Duvall, featured percussion, keyboards, voice, and field recordings of Alaska's Matanuska Glacier and explored a performative means of remapping climate change into sound. This live performance installation took place on September 16th on the field of St. John's college in Santa Fe.

Lastly, I joined my colleagues and dear friends, Tjett Gerdom and Natasha Stojanovska, on the stage last night for a fun-filled recital in Los Alamos to benefit their Month of Arts and Culture programming in October. Fun fact: we performed in the room Cillian Murphey gave one of his speeches in the film, Oppenheimer. 🤓

Looking forward to next month's endeavors! 🖤

About to get out "Introspection" on for Transient Landscapes. It's been an immersive kind of weekend!

It has been a pleasure to work with composer, Nathan Felix, and the rest of our crew for his immersive opera, Glory Gone. Putting something like this together has been a unique challenge and altogether rewarding feat, so I hope you'll join us tonight, in and around the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, for a super different and out-of-the-box performance experience!

View the trailer here: https://youtu.be/LRKUtKX0Aag

OBF 2023 🖤

Started out with a wicked Bach program and an equally wicked group of 15 singers, conducted by the incredible Jos van Veldhoven, then joined forces with the SFYCA and U of O Chorus for a roaring performance of Krzysztof Penderecki's "Credo," conducted by Anna Sułkowska-Migoń, created some seriously beautiful sounds in Brahms' Shicksalslied, conducted by Eric Jacobson, and ended with yesterday's performance of the philosophical and poetic "A Sea Symphony," composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams and conducted by Gemma New. I also had the honor of singing in the beautiful and touching service/concert in memory of Royce Saltzman, OBF's co-founder and long time executive director, conducted by Kathy Romey, daughter of Royce Saltzman and current OBF Chorus director.

In between, I reconnected with old friends and made some new ones. What a memorable experience!

Just finished up a week of meticulous rehearsal and two amazing Bach concerts with the Oregon Bach Festival, a program of which included the famous Magnificat in D major (on the anniversary of its premiere at the Thomaskirche), the three 1723 audition pieces of Telemann, Graupner, and Bach, for the Thomaskantor position in Leipzig, and the beautiful Dona nobis pacem from Bach's B minor Mass as an encore.

I am feeling overwhelmed with fortune to have had this opportunity to work with such talented colleagues under the direction of the spectacular Dutch conductor and director of the Netherlands Bach Society from the 80s until 2018, Jos van Veldhoven. A well of information and sweet charm, this man! His attention to every detail and nuance draws the text into a fluid relationship with the "little black dots" and invites the notes to dance off the page and become music. It is something beautiful to behold, and I'm beside myself to have been a part of it! 🖤

So looking forward to seeing my friends and colleagues in Talbot's Path of Miracles today and to the rest of the festival! 🎶

If you're looking for a great event to attend this coming weekend, be sure to catch Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico, under the direction of the brilliant Maxine Thevenot, for our Summer Fusion of Sights and Sounds program. Alongside gorgeous works by Sirett, Byrd, Barber, Gesualdo, Stanford, and more, we will also be presenting the New Mexico premiere of Gabriel Jackson's setting of Ave Regina Caelorum, for SATB choir and electric guitar, in which we will be joined by guest guitarist and sculpture artist, Claudio Toulousse. There are concerts in both Albuquerque and Santa Fe. Hope to see you there!

To Shiver the Sky- Christopher Tin!!!

If you've already gotten your tickets, you're in for a treat! If not, there's still time (Popejoy tomorrow evening June 17 at 7:30/the Lensic Sunday June 18 at 3pm). The soloists are stunning, the orchestra and choir are killer, and Aaron never fails to amaze 🖤 Super excited and hope to see you there!

Had a blast singing scenes from Verdi's Macbeth and Johann Strauss II's Die Fledermaus and Casanova tonight with the talented singers of NMPAS!

Hello, friends, I hope you are well and enjoying the start to your Summer! I wanted to let you know about three great programs coming up this month, and I will also post about them individually as they approach.

First, be sure to catch the NMPAS Season Finale Opera concert, under the direction of Franz Vote, presenting music of Verdi, Mozart, Donizetti, and more!
Friday, June 9th at 7pm in Santa Fe at 50 Mt. Carmel Rd. (previously the IHM Retreat Center)
Sunday, June 11th at 5:30pm in Abq (St. Michael and All Angels church)
https://nmpas.org/tickets/

The weekend after that, the Zia Singers, the NM Gay Men's Chorus, the Rio Rancho Youth Chorus, and fabulous soloists will join forces, under the direction of Aaron Howe, for the Southwest premiere of Cristopher Tin's "To Shiver the Sky," in which I'll be a part of the medieval trio.
Saturday, June 17th at 7:30pm at Popejoy
Sunday, June 18th at 3pm at the Lensic
http://www.nmgmc.org/to-shiver-the-sky.html

Last, but certainly not least, don't miss out on the Polyphony Summer Fusions of Sights and Sounds concert (with NM premiere of Gabriel Jackson's Ave Regina Caelorum), under the direction of Maxine Thevenot amd featuring guitarist and sculpture artist, Claudio Toulousse.
Saturday, June 24th at 3pm at the NM Museum of Art in Santa Fe
Sunday, June 25th at 6pm at the Cathedral of St. John in Albuquerque
https://www.polyphonynm.com/season-tickets

I hope I get the chance to see you at any one or all of these concerts before I head out to sing with the Oregon Bach Festival next month. Have a beautiful day! 🖤🎶

It's always such a pleasure to make music with this wonderful pianist and beautiful human being (Debbie Wagner) ✨️

Hey friends, if you're in need of some good Classical background music for your day, support 95.5 KHFM. You can catch me in 15, guest hosting from 10-3pm :) Ciao! 🖤

Hey friends, just wanted to let you know I'll be guest hosting tomorrow night through Friday night on KHFM (95.5), in case you want to tune in and join me for a little evening listening. I'm subbing for David Sinkus, so I'll be on from 7pm to midnight, March 22-24. Have a great week!

Hey friends! Time flies, doesn't it? I cannot believe it's already February!

Highlights from last year's many wonderful musical endeavors include: a moving performance of Kim Arnesen's Magnificat with the Zia Singers, an all female choir concert (Polyphony) of all female composers, featuring the premiere of a new work by Jenny Olivia Johnson, Haydn's Creation with Polyphony and Santa Fe Pro Musica, a powerful season ender opera concert with NMPAS, in which I performed the mad scene (sleepwalking scene) from Verdi's Macbeth, and various eclectic concerts with Chatter and the Albuquerque Chamber Soloists. I also had the pleasure of joining the Boulder Bach Festival twice, for their main Summer festival and for their holiday Winter concert.

As for this year, 2023 couldn't have begun with a better prelude than David Lang's "Death Speaks" with Chatter's Late Works series, and coming up soon, a Bach concert and Aaron Alter premiere with NMPAS. I am happy to announce that I will be making a soloist appearance with the New Mexico Gay Men's Chorus in June for Christopher Tin's "To Shiver the Sky," and then heading to Oregon in July to join the Oregon Bach Festival for this Summer's Brahms, Penderecki, Vaughan Williams, and Alberga programs. Last but not least, I'm over the moon ecstatic to be joining the Desert Chorale for their 2023 Winter season.

Looking forward to wonderful new music adventures, and wishing you a beautiful, happy, and productive year! 🖤

P.S. I've also recently joined the 95.5 KHFM Classical Public Radio team as an occasional announcer (a fun and different kind of challenge), so stay tuned and you might catch me one of these days! 🎶

Just a friendly reminder to get your tickets for tonight's Late Works concert if you haven't already. Some of the pieces have changed, but it's still going to be an incredible and moving program, and Esmail's Two Tones and Lang's Death Speaks are still on the menu! Hope to see you there!

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January 6, 2023 – Late Works – Chatter Reena Esmail Two Tones Francisco Tarrega Capricho Arabe Benjamin Britten Lachrymae Ann Southam Remembering Schubert David Lang Death Speaks

If you haven't gotten the chance to attend one of Chatter's Late Works concerts, I highly recommend that you do. Held on the first Friday of each month at 9pm, these concerts are advertised as providing "night sounds for adventurous listeners," and they do exactly that! I am beyond excited to be joining the Chatter team for next month's concert on Friday, January 6th, for a program that will feature works by Olivier Messiaen, David Lang, Carola Bauckholt, Reena Esmail, and Christopher Cerrone. I'm happy to say that our postponed Lang piece, Death Speaks, will be taking place that night on the program. During this time of unbelievable loss, this heart wrenching, hauntingly beautiful piece that personifies Death and expands on its intricacies seems highly appropriate and timely. I will also join for the lovely Esmail piece, titled Two Tones, for violin, piano, and voice. I hope you will join us for this wonderful program!
*Cash bar provided by Rumor Brewing
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January 6, 2023 – Late Works – Chatter Olivier Messiaen Alouette Lulu(the woodlark) David Lang Death Speaks Carola Bauckholt Doppelbelichtung(double exposure) Reena Esmail Two Tones Christopher Cerrone Sonata for Violin and Piano

A week in the beautiful, green Boulder, CO... incredible musicians who are as down to earth and humble as they are brilliant... a whole lot of marvelous music, predominantly (but not solely) J.S. Bach's... what's not to love?! Here's to an amazing run and to more in the future! Thank you to everyone who made it unforgettable 🎶

Review of the Festival's second concert, which included our octet's performance of the brilliant motet, "Komm, Jesu, Komm." https://www.thescen3.org/a-festival-celebrates-bach-among-others/

Super excited to be joining in voice with such amazing musicians and human beings to share the incredible, unparalelled music of J.S. Bach this weekend! I will be in Concerts #2 and #4 (Friday, May 13th, and Sunday, May 15th), but the whole weekend is full of wonderful programs. I am truly looking forward to the fiery piano and harpsichord performances by Concert Pianist and BBF's Artistic/Executive Director, Mina Gajić, and the lovely, agile and floating melismas of Soprano and Baroque music specialist, Josefien Stoppelenburg. The Festival also offers several lectures, recitals, and master classes. If you are in the Boulder area or feel like getting out of town for the weekend, I highly suggest adding the Boulder Bach Festival to your list! Make sure to message me if you do! Happy weekend 🖤🎶

https://www.boulderbachfestival.org/

BBF | ANNOUNCING 41st SEASON Classical Music Boulder: navigating the waters of music history with J.S. Bach as our compass, the BBF presents baroque orchestra, chamber orchestra, vocal ensembles and soloists in works from 1600 to the present.

My home office and walk to work for the week...😍🌳🌲

NMPAS is holding their Annual New Mexico Bach Society concerts this weekend, featuring music of J.S. Bach, Händel, and Palestrina, which will be brought to life by a talented instrumental ensemble and 8 fine vocalists. Albuquerque friends can catch us at the St. Michael & All Angels Episcopal Church on Sat., April 2 . Our Santa Fe concert will be held at the usual IHM performance space the next day, on Sun., April 3 @5:30pm. Tickets, both in-person and live-stream, can be found here: https://nmpas.org/tickets/

Hope to see you there!

Tickets – NMPAS Thank you so much for helping NMPAS to keep our artists and audience members safe during the pandemic. We hope that our policies provide reassurance that we care for your safety. We look forward to welcoming you to NMPAS programs in 2021-2022.

Hello friends! I hope you're able to tune in to PVNM's upcoming set of concerts, titled "Awakenings: Music of Diversity." Below is my artist spotlight on the event, and I truly hope you will take the time to listen to all of the other spotlight videos of the wonderful musicians/human beings that make up our upper voice ensemble. There are also several interviews led by our director, Maxine Thevenot, of some of the composers whose music will be featured in these concerts. I am very much looking forward to this unique program, and I hope you can make it to one or both concerts. Have a beautiful day! 🖤

https://www.polyphonynm.com/season-tickets

Thurs., March 31 - St. John's United Methodist Church, Santa Fe

Sat., April 2 - Cathedral of St. John, Albuquerque

https://youtu.be/HgwiuMjHISc

Jennifer Perez - Awakenings Artist Spotlight