Richard Lalli
Baritone
Richard Lalli is an Associate Professor of Music at Yale, where he has taught since 1982. He currently conducts the Yale Collegium Musicum, an ensemble devoted to early music and started by Paul Hindemith in the 1940's. The Collegium regularly performs works from manuscript in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library in New Haven.
Mr. Lalli performs around the world as a singer. He has given solo recitals at Wigmore Hall, the Spoleto Festival USA, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, Merkin Hall in New York, Salle Cortot, and the United States Embassy in Paris. During the Schubert bicentenary year, the baritone presented the three Schubert cycles at Yale University, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and in Paris. During the past few seasons, he has been particularly active in the performance of chamber music. He has performed Shoenberg's Ode to Napoleon on the Lincoln Center Chamber Players series at Alice Tully Hall, and has appeared with the Boston Camerata, Orchestra of St. Luke's, the Arcadia Players, Sequitur, and ARTEK. As a pianist, he has participated in chamber music programs with the Mirror Visions Ensemble in Weill Recital Hall, Town Hall, and in Paris, London, Stockholm, Basel, Edinburgh and Budapest. In recent seasons, Lalli has premiered works of Yehudi Wyner, Katheryn Alexander, Tom Cipullo, Christopher Berg, Richard Wilson, Lewis Spratlan, Francine Trester, Ricky Ian Gordon, Richard Pearson Thomas, Eric Zivian, Braxton Blake, Daron Hagen, and William Ryden.
In 2002-2003, Mr. Lalli performed William Walton's Facade with the composer's widow at Yale University. At Princeton, he was featured in the one-man chamber opera Cézanne's Doubt by Daniel Rothman. In May, 2003, he sang premiers by Robert Carl, Steven Cox, Elana Kats-Chernin, Robert Maggio, and William Rhodes at Joe's Pub in New York City and gave the American premier of a new one man performance piece ME, by Edmund Campion, at the Cal Performances Edge Festival in Berkeley. Additionally he sang Schubert's Winterreise at Mount Holyoke College, Wolf's Itialianisches Liederbuck at Smith College, and Kurtag's Four Songs Composed to János Pilinszky's Poems at Columbia. He also presented six concerts at the Musee Carnavalet, the museum of the city of Paris, featuring a new song cycle by Christopher Berg based on the letters of Madame de Sévigné.
With
Pianist Gary Chapman, Mr. Lalli has recorded four discs of popular songs.
The two have appeared at festivals around the world, and also in intimate
spaces such as the Players' Club, the Carlyle. the Park Plaza, and The
Whitney Museum of American Art. all in New York City. Their recording
accompanies a new Yale University Press publication, Classic American
Popular Songs, by Alien Forte.