Gilda Lyons

GILDA LYONS, composer, vocalist, and visual artist, combines elements of renaissance, neo-baroque, spectral, folk, agitprop, Music Theater, and extended vocalism to create works of uncompromising emotional honesty and melodic beauty. Her music—described as “irresistible” and “vivacious” (Gramophone), “hair-raising, yet elegant” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel), “like nothing you’ve ever heard before” (NATS Journal of Singing), and “masterly” (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)—is available on the AMP Recordings, Clarion, GPR, Naxos, New Dynamic, New Focus, Roven, and Yarlung labels. Laura Strickling’s Grammy-nominated recording of Lyons’ Songs of Lament and Praise was described by Opera News as “quietly devastating.” Lyons serves as Program Chair and Associate Professor of Composition at The Hartt School, University of Hartford; as Co-Chair of Composition at Wintergreen Music Academy; and as Artistic and Executive Director of the Richard P. Garmany Chamber Music Series. Her music is published by Schott, E.C. Schirmer, and Burning Sled Media. www.gildalyons.com