Saturday’s performance was paced by the stentorian yet lyrical vocalizations of bass-baritone Kevin Deas, notably in Whitman’s “Reconciliation,” the chorus’s finely detailed treatment of the elaborate closing biblical sequence and the orchestra and chorus at full tilt in Whitman’s “Beat! beat! drums.”

Soprano Michelle Areyzaga brought restrained passion, and welcome gradations of expression, in her role as a lone, pleading voice in recurring recitations of the “Dona nobis pacem” chant.

“Soprano Michelle Areyzaga and pianist Jamie Shaak deliver performances of stunning beauty, clarity, and eloquence. Ms. Areyzaga’s voice has a luminous radiance from top to bottom, and she deploys that [...]

Chamber Music Society pays tribute to Schubert “…The second half was lighter with sensational singing from soprano Michelle Areyzaga in Andre Previn’s “Vocalise for Soprano, Cello and Piano” (1995) and [...]

Chamber Music Society delivers with style “…Things brightened up after intermission. Andre Previn’s “Vocalise” was a patchwork of luscious bits performed by soprano Michelle Areyzaga, cellist David Finckel and pianist [...]

Fine Hyde Park performance of rarely heard music “The concert opened with Giocomo Meyerbeer’s Hirtenlied, written for soprano, clarinet and piano. Areyzaga performed this idyllic song about a shepherd high [...]

Soprano Areyzaga warms up a rainy night in Chicago Ensemble opener “No chamber series in town roves as widely nor as adventurously, and so it proved again with Tuesday evening’s [...]

“Areyzaga had many opportunities to shine and she took them firmly in hand. In a 2001 work by American composer Mark Zuckerman — “Ménagerie” — she was an apt story-teller, [...]

“Michelle Areyzaga was the standout, her high soprano–and exemplary diction–soaring in her solo moments as the blind man’s mother. […] The finest moments were once again provided by Areyzaga’s sensitive and [...]

"...intelligently and sensitively sung by soprano Michelle Areyzaga ... captured the pointillist essence of Beckett’s language; and Areyzaga’s robust singing in “Roundelay” was colored with gentle commentary from the flute [...]

“The highlight of the first half was Max Reger’s breathtakingly lovely “Maria Wiegenlied”, or Mary’s Cradle Song. Areyzaga, the soprano, sang it beautifully.” —Mary Kunz Goldman – The Buffalo News, [...]