Amy Pfrimmer, Soprano
Reviews
Opera, Concert, Oratorio, Recital and Master Classes
"In a quarter century of accompanying in voice studios and coaching classical singers, I have not performed even one of Franck’s mélodies...Pfrimmer has a rich, full, warm voice capable of both dramatic agitation and tender exhortation. She has a keen sense of text-guided phrasing; while remaining true to the score, she employs a conversational freedom in her rubato...Pfrimmer’s performance as a whole is entirely convincing and demonstrates both tremendous affection and tremendous affinity for Franck’s mélodies."
Fanfare by Myron Silberstein
"Banality banished, Pfrimmer’s resonant and wide-ranging vocal timbre - sometimes bright, at other moments rich and dark depending on the needs of the texts - brings balanced, considerate and empathic intellectual heft to phrases like French poet Marceline Desbordes-Valmore’s“When the evening bells, in their slow flight bring down the hours at the bottom of the valley/If you have no friends or loved ones close to you, think of me!”from Les Cloches du soir (Evening Bells)."
PerformingArtsReview.net by Daniel Kepl
"It is clear in listening to these songs that Reichardt prized such qualities as a lovely vocal quality, pristine legato, and the ability to use the text to launch and sustain the vocal line. Reichardt certainly possessed an admirable gift for composing melodies that are both lovely and that linger in one’s memory. The settings of Italian texts (here, all by Metastasio) remind me of similar works by Reichardt’s younger contemporary, Vincenzo Bellini. And if someone told me that Reichardt’s German lieder were previously unknown works by Franz Schubert, I would not be skeptical, at least in terms of the writing for the singer…I’ve listened to the disc several times, and have continued to be engaged by it a great deal. That is a testament to Reichardt’s music but also, of course, to its champions on this recording. Soprano Amy Pfrimmer (a member of Tulane University’s faculty) sings Reichardt’s songs with an attractive, rich, and secure tone, sensitive phrasing, and a fine legato...It’s much more of a compliment than a criticism to say that, given the quality of the performances, far more than 44 minutes of music would have been most welcome. But those 44 minutes are of a very high quality, indeed...A worthy project given the benefit first-rate execution, and one that earns a very high recommendation."
Fanfare by Ken Meltzer
"Amy Pfrimmer's singing is supremely warm and refreshing, and the innocent beauty of these songs is brought out in bright, luminous textures. Dreux Montegut plays sympathetically throughout.An invaluable disc, focusing on one of Germany's hidden romantic names so unjustly neglected. A revelatory discovery in clean sound and attractive presentation, albeit short on playing time."
ClassicalMusicDaily.com by Gerald Fenech
SCHEDULE
Where is Amy?
FIO-Italia Summer Festival
Artist Faculty
June-July 2024
Urbania, Italy
National Association of Teachers of Singing
National Conference Presentation
Meaningful Mentoring in the Voice Professions
June 2024
Knoxville, TN
Universidade Federale de Uberlândia
Guest Artist Residency
Recital, Master Class, Lecture Recital
May 2024
Uberlândia, Brazil
Affetto Records - Recording
Le doux appel: Mélodies of Charles-Marie Widor
Forthcoming 2024
Tulane University
University of New Mexico
Guest Artist Residency
April 2024
April 21-24, 2024
Albuquerque, NM
Tulane Vocal Arts Festival
Founding Director
April 11-13, 2024
New Orleans, LA
University of Arizona
Amelia T. Reiman Vocal Competition
Adjudicator
March 2024
Tulane Opera - Stage Director
Behrman's Masterpiece
Workshop and Performance of
a new opera by Maxim Samarov
based on O. Henry's The Last Leaf
March 21 & 22, 2024
Dixon Hall, Tulane University
Montclair State University
Guest Artist Residency
February 2024
Montclair, NJ
Florida State University
Guest Artist Residency
February 2024
Tallahassee, FL
Delta State University
Guest Artist Residency
Recital, Master Class, Workshop for Singers and Collaborative Pianists
Kumiko Shimizu, piano
January 2024
Cleveland, MS
National Opera Association National
Conference Presentation
The Sounds & Stories of Opera in Sacred Spaces:
Audience Expansion Through Sacred Music Drama
January 2024
Phoenix/Tempe, AZ
St. Paul's Chamber Orchestra
Bach by Candlelight
December 2023
Philadelphia, PA
Tulane Musical Theatre Workshop
Finn and Sheinkin
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Music Director
2023 November
Dixon Hall, Tulane University
New Orleans, LA
FIO-Italia Summer Festival
Artist Faculty
Pergolesi's Lo frate 'nnammorato
as Nena
July 2023
Urbania and Jesi, Italy
Butler University
Lecture Recital Presentation
Unknown Greats – Songs of Louise Reichardt and Louis Vierne
March 2023
(virtual)
Louisiana House of Representatives
National Anthem Soloist
2023 Louisiana Legislative Session
2023 May
Baton Rouge, LA
Tulane Musical Theatre Workshop
Holmes' The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Music Director
2023 March
Dixon Hall, Tulane University
New Orleans, LA
University of Illinois
Lecture Recital Presentation and Career Development
Komponistin Louise Reichardt: A Composer Paving the Way for Women
February 2023
(virtual)
Sam Houston State Art Song Festival
Conference Lecture Recital
Falling: A Monodrama
2023 February
Sam Houston State University, Texas
Tulane Vocal Arts Festival
Founding Director
2023 February
Shoreline Arts Alliance
Adjudicator - Classical and Musical Theatre Competition
Madison, CT
February 2023
New Orleans Opera
Schnyder's Charlie Parker's Yardbird
as
Baroness Nica de Koenigswarter
January 20, 21, and 22, 2022
Jazz Market
http://neworleansopera.org/tickets/
New Orleans, LA
National Opera Association
Theology and Theatre: Fit or Foe?
Presentation and Panel Discussion on Islamic Themed Opera
Sacred in Opera Initiative
January 2023
Houston, Texas
National Opera Association
Shifting Operatic Identity:
In the Shadow of Racism and Gender and Sexism, Can We Reimagine the Inherited Tradition of the Operatic Canon?
Presentation
January 2023
Houston, Texas
Théâtre Île St. Louis Paul Rey, Paris
Solo Recital
César Franck et ses héritiers
Samuel Liégeon, piano
December 2022
Southeastern Louisiana University
Lecture Recital
Invited Presentation
Why Don’t We Know the Songs of Franck, Vierne, and Reichardt?
November 2022
(virtual)
Tulane Opera
Conte's The Gift of the Magi
Director
2023 November
Dixon Hall, Tulane University
New Orleans, LA
International Congress of Voice Teachers (ICVT)
Conference Presentation/Lecture Recital
Souvenance: Mélodies of César Franck
August 2022
University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
International Alliance of Women in Music
Conference Presentation/Lecture Recital
The Lost Romantic: Songs of Louise Reichardt
June 2022
Oregon State University with Satellite Hosts in Australia and Antwerp (Hybrid)
Cité International des Arts, Paris
Guest Artist Faculty Recital
St. John’s University and Missouri State University
August 2022
Paris, France
The French Culture and Experience: Art, Music, And Cuisine in Paris!
La Belle Époque, Opera Fanaticism, & César Franck’s Counter Current of French Mélodie
2022
St. John's University, Paris and Missouri State University Study Abroad
Spheres of Singing
Conference Presentation/Lecture Recital
Songs of Louis Vierne
2022 July
University of Glasgow
Glasgow, Scottland (Hybrid)
Spheres of Singing
Conference Presentation/Lecture Recital
Falling: A Monodrama
2022 July
University of Glasgow
Glasgow, Scottland (hybrid)
New Orleans Chamber Orchestra,
Falling: A Monodrama
Amy Pfrimmer, soloist and director
&
Alexandrian Love Songs
Jeffrey Springer, tenor
Amy Pfrimmer, irector
June 2022
Marigny Opera House
New Orleans, LA
Sam Houston State Art Song Festival
Conference Presentation/Lecture Recital
Songs of Louis Vierne
2022
Sam Houston State University, Texas
(virtual)
Tulane Opera and Musical Theatre Workshop
co-production
Gilbert and Sullivan's Iolanthe
March 2022
Dixon Hall, Tulane University
New Orleans, LA
Songs of Louis Vierne
Centaur Records
with
Peter Collins, piano
Thomas Ospital, organ
2022 May
St. Eustache Church, Paris
Ursuline Convent, New Orleans
Teatro Lirico d’Europa Gala Concert Soloist
A Celebration of Song: from Opera to Broadway
February 2022
Panama City, Florida
National Opera Association
Conference Presentation and Soloist
Sacred Music Drama in America: 100 years with the Works of Seymour Barab and Dave Brubeck
NOA's Sacred in Opera Initiative
January 2022
St. Augustine, FL
Sam Houston State Art Song Festival
Conference Presentation/Lecture Recital
The Lost Romantic: Songs of Louise Reichardt
2021
Sam Houston State University, Texas
(virtual)
Tulane Vocal Arts Festival
Founding Director
2021 October
New Orleans Opera Allons! Lecture Series
Invited Presentation
Parlez-moi d’amour: French Romantic Opera and the Girls Your Mother Warned You About
2020 November
(virtual
Michigan State University
Invited Guest Lecture Recital
The Lost Romantic: Songs of Louise Reichardt
2020 September
(virtual)
Pacific Lutheran University
Lecture Recital- Invited Presentation
Unknown Songs of Louise
Reichardt and César Franck
March 2021
(virtual)
Rhodes College
En français!
Guest Artist Recital of French Mélodies
with Thomas Bryant, piano
March 2, 2020
7:30PM
Memphis, Tennessee
The Lost Romantic: Songs of Louise Reichardt
MSR Classics
with Dreux Montegut, piano
2019
Recorded Loyola University-New Orleans, Nunemaker Hall
The American Cathedral in Paris
Les Arts George V
Solo Recital
Souvenance: Mélodies of César Franck
February 2, 2020
Paris, France
New Orleans Chamber Orchestra
with Operation Restoration
Holiday Concerts for Incarcerated Women #restorationthroughmusic
December 2020
Baton Rouge, New Orleans and St. Gabriel, Louisiana
Tulane Orchestra Concert
Tosca, Act III excerpt with Tyler Smith, Tenor and Maxim Samarov Conductor
November 2020
Dixon Hall
Music at Midday
Tulane Voice Faculty Recital
2019 November
Rogers Memorial Chapel
Tulane French Week Concert
French Mélodies with Katalin Lukacs, piano
2019 November
Tulane Vocal Arts Festival
Tulane Faculty Recital
2019 October
New Orleans, LA
Postponed
Vratsa Symphony, Soprano Soloist
American program, including Samuel Barber's Knoxville Summer of 1915
Hristo Pavlov, Conductor
September 12-13, 2019
Vratsa, Bulgaria
Postponed
Sofia, Bulgaria - Jewish Cultural Center
Absolutely American, Solo Recital
September 2019
Sofia, Bulgaria
Art Stars International Vocal Competition
Invited International Jury Member
September 8-9, 2019
The National Radio
Varna, Bulgaria
Bastille Day Mass
July 14, 2019
Our Lady of Good Counsel
New Orleans, LA
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
Ode to Joy
Soprano Soloist
Winners of The American Prize Chicago Oratorio Award
Saturday, June 22, 2019, 8PM
Orchestra Hall, Symphony Center
Chicago, Illinois
http://theamericanprize.blogspot.com/2019/05/winners-of-chicago-oratorio-awards-2019.html
National Anthem Soloist
Louisiana House of Representatives
and
Louisiana Senate
Closing Day of 2019 Louisiana Legislative Session
June 6, 2019
Baton Rouge, LA
Tulane Summer Musical Theatre Intensive
Artist Faculty
June 5, 2019
New Orleans, LA
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
Ode to Joy
Soprano Soloist
Winners of The American Prize Chicago Oratorio Award
June 2019
St. John Brebeuf Church
Niles, Illinois
CS Music Conference College Expo
Master Class Contest Adjudication
May 2019
Chicago, IL
New Orleans Chamber Orchestra, Soprano Soloist
Midsummer Introspection
"Ars Moriendi" by Maxim Samarov
June 2019
Marigny Opera House
New Orleans, LA
Tulane Opera
Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel
Director
April 12 and April 14, 2019
Dixon Hall, Tulane University
New Orleans, LA
International Music by Women Conference
Invited Presentation
The Lost Romantic: Metastasio Songs of Louise Reichardt
January 2019
Mississippi University for Women
Columbus, MS
Mississippi Opera
Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors
as Mother
December 2018
Jackson, MS
Tulane University
Souvenance: Mélodies of César Franck
Faculty/Guest Artist Recital
Thomas Kientz, piano/organ
Charles Mignot, narrator
November 2018
New Orleans, LA
Donald Wood Vocal Competition
Adjudicator, New Orleans Opera
October 2018
Roussel Hall, Loyola University
New Orleans, LA
Association des Amis de la Cathédrale de Fréjus
Concert with Emmanuel Arakélian
Music of Vierne, Bach, Mendelssohn, Gounod, and Hogan
August 2018
Fréjus, France
Tulane Opera
Director
Menotti's
The Old Maid and the Thie
March 2018
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA
Souvenance: Mélodies of César Franck
MSR Classics
with Thomas Kientz, piano and organ
2017
Recorded St. Guillaume Church, Strasbourg Abbaye Royaumont, France
Eternal Life: Sacred Songs and Spirituals
MSR Classics
Dreux Montegut, piano
2017
Recorded at Tulane University, Rogers Memorial Chapel
Mississippi Chorus
Händel's Messiah, soprano soloist
December 2017
Jackson, MS
New Orleans Opera
Offenbach's
Orpheus in the Underworld
as
Juno
November 2017
Mahalia Jackson Auditorium
New Orleans, LA
Sofia Jewish Cultural Center
The American 20th Century
Solo Recital
September 2018
Sofia, Bulgaria
Art Stars International Vocal Competition
Invited International Jury Member
September 2018
The National Radio
Varna, Bulgaria
Mississippi Opera
Cabaret Soirée
Cabaret at Duling Hall
Solo Cabaret with Dreux Montegut, piano
September 2017
Jackson, MS
Vendredi Soirs
St. Pierre le Jeune
Sacred Music of César Franck
Thomas Kientz, organ
**Immediately following the concert is a lecture in the Cloisters
"Who is César Franck?"
August 2017
Strasbourg, France
Les estivales de St. Guillaume
Souvenance: Mélodies of César Franck
Thomas Kientz, organ
August 2017
Strasbourg, France