selected lyric
“First Song”
song for voice and violin
Composer: Hope Wechkin
Album: Leaning Toward the Fiddler (Ravello Records)
February 2013
“Native Country”
song cycle for solo soprano and chamber orchestra
Composer: Christopher Shanin
Performed by Hope Wechkin and Contemporary Chamber Composers and Players
Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle
June 2003
“We experience our sacred boundaries shift, shimmer, reconfigure, opening to new mystical landscapes” – Ann Spiers
“Ophelia”
song for solo soprano and mixed choir
Composer: Christopher Shainin
Performed by The Esoterics, Night of Ten Premieres (Katy Greenleaf, soprano)
Westminister Presbyterian Church, Seattle
April 1997
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