Internationally acclaimed for her crystalline soprano, assured musicality and interpretive insight, American soprano ILANA DAVIDSON’S repertoire spans the 12th to the 21st centuries. Her recording of William Bolcom’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience conducted by Leonard Slatkin won four Grammy Awards in 2006 including Best Classical Album. She has closely collaborated with such composers as John Zorn (in his Pierrot Lunaire-like setting of Chimeras, recorded on the Tzadik label) and Bright Sheng (performing his setting of Three Love Songs with violist Ida Kavafian, clarinetist Jon Menasse and the composer at the piano). Several years ago Ms. Davidson’s association with the music of the Austrian composer Ernst Krenek began with rapturously received performances as the Queen in Das Geheime Königreich at the Krenek Festival in Vienna and Die Nachtigall with the Austrian Chamber Symphony. The former spawned a series of projects dedicated to the composer’s works including solo debut recording of his lieder, a recital tour, and ongoing performances of his opera, What Price Confidence (returning to New York’s Austrian Cultural Forum in September 2007).
