Song recital with Kevin Bylsma, 2/26/12 in Bryan Hall at Bowling Green State University's Moore Musical Arts Center.

Arnold Schoenberg - Das Buch der haengenden Gaerten

Book of the Hanging Gardens

Chamber music

DMA recital IV, performed at Bryan Hall, BGSU on 3/19/2017, 8p.
Live recording.

I have been this way before

Recent

Angel Lasalas' Serranas "Cantares yo canto", poetry by composer.

Performed at Kirche St Martin in Wittnau, Switzerland on June 15, 2025 by Chelsea Czuchra (flutes), Lindsay Buffington (harp), and Liz Pearse (voice and drum).

Lasala Serranas 1

3 selections from Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon's "Songs from Comala"
Junto a tu gente
Nunca Sueño
El mar

Performed at Kirche St Martin in Wittnau, Switzerland on June 15, 2025 by Chelsea Czuchra (flutes), Lindsay Buffington (harp), and Liz Pearse (voice).

Zohn-Muldoon 3 songs from Comala

Brittany J. Green's "red glint stars // in hued alarm", poetry by Michael Cavuto

Performed at Kirche St Martin in Wittnau, Switzerland on June 15, 2025 by Chelsea Czuchra (flutes), Lindsay Buffington (harp), and Liz Pearse (voice).

Green Red Glint Stars

Reena Esmail's "Rosa de Sal", poetry by Pablo Neruda.

Originally voice and piano, arranged by Lindsay Buffington and performed at Kirche St Martin in Wittnau, Switzerland on June 15, 2025 by Lindsay Buffington (harp), and Liz Pearse (voice).

Esmail Rosa de Sal

Angel Lasalas' Serranas "Caminito que va p'arriba", poetry by composer.

Performed at Kirche St Martin in Wittnau, Switzerland on June 15, 2025 by Chelsea Czuchra (flutes), Lindsay Buffington (harp), and Liz Pearse (voice).

Lasala Serranas 3

Alfred Zimmerlin's "Alimondoj", English poetry by Ingrid Fichtner and Esperanto text by Alfred Zimmerlin.

Performed at Kirche St Martin in Wittnau, Switzerland on June 15, 2025 by Chelsea Czuchra (flutes), Lindsay Buffington (harp), and Liz Pearse (voice and percussion).

Zimmerlin Alimondoj

Angel Lasalas' Serranas "Colla collita", poetry by composer.

Performed at Kirche St Martin in Wittnau, Switzerland on June 15, 2025 by Chelsea Czuchra (flutes), Lindsay Buffington (harp), and Liz Pearse (voice and drum).

Lasala Serranas 2

Gabriela Ortiz's Rio Bravo 2 for voice and flute, poetry by Mónica Sánchez Escuer. Fixed media substituting for 6 wine glasses, produced by Liz Pearse.

Performed at Kirche St Martin in Wittnau, Switzerland on June 15, 2025 by Chelsea Czuchra (flutes) and Liz Pearse (voice).

Ortiz Rio Bravo 2

Philomel (1964) - Milton Babbitt

Liz Pearse, live voice
Bethany Beardslee, recorded voice
Mark II synthesizer, 4 channel sound
John Fielder, sound engineer


Recorded live 7/9/2015 at Bancroft Street Market as part of the Omaha Under the Radar Festival. 



Milton Babbitt- Philomel

Stacey Barelos, piano
Liz Pearse, voice
Helmut Lachenmann - "Got Lost" (2007/2008)

“Three only seemingly incompatible texts, stripped of their pathos-laden, poetic and profane diction, are sent from the same sound source – a soprano voice singing ‘in whatever way’ – into a intervallically ever-changing field of sound, reverberation and movement. Calling out, playfully, ‘warbling’ and lamenting arioso: they interrupt and pervade one another, thus marking out a space that ultimately remains foreign to them, and in which – as in all my compositions – music reflects upon itself with ‘expression’-less joviality, thus showing its awareness of the transcendent, god-less message of ‘ridicolas’ that unifies these three texts.” 
(Helmut Lachenmann, 2010)


Performed live at Kaneko on July 8, 2016 as part of Omaha Under the Radar.

Photo of performance by Aleks Karjaka of Karjaka Studios.

Got Lost - Helmut Lachenmann

Canto III was written for soprano Liz Pearse. Liz was commenting on how there are many pieces asking instrumentalists to sing, but very few that go the other way. Here is Liz's performance at the UNK New Music Series. 

This is piece is also the first of three "Canto" pieces, in which I set texts from Dante's Inferno. Canto III's setting is the famous inscription above the gate of hell.

Canto III - For self-accompanied soprano

Recorded at the Overture Center for the Arts in Madison, WI - 8/11. With Molly McLaughlin, flutes; Owen Weaver, percussion.


Madrigals, Book II (George Crumb)

From "The Book of the Hanging Gardens" (Arnold Schoenberg)
Liz Pearse, soprano, with Kevin Bylsma, piano
Recorded live at Bryan Hall in the Moore Musical Arts Center 
Bowling Green, OH  2/26/12

"Unterm schutz von dichtem blaettergruenden"

From The Book of Hanging Gardens (Arnold Schoenberg)
Liz Pearse, soprano, with Kevin Bylsma, piano
Recorded live at Bryan Hall in the Moore Musical Arts Center 
Bowling Green, OH  2/26/12

"Hain in diesen paradiesen"

"Als neuling trat ich"

"Da meine lippen"

Song recital with Kevin Bylsma, 2/26/12 in Bryan Hall at Bowling Green State University's Moore Musical Arts Center.

"Saget mir, auf welchem pfade"

"Als wir hinter dem bebluemten tore"

Recorded live on April 12, 2012 in Bryan Hall at the Moore Musical Arts Center, Bowling Green State University, OH.

BGSU's New Music Ensemble personnel:
Christopher Dietz, conductor
Liz Pearse, soprano
Alex Munson, boy soprano
Michiko Saiki, piano/toy piano
Alana Henkel, oboe
Carter John Rice, mandolin
Brendan Jacklin, saw
Sarah Modene, harp
John Pearse, Elizabeth Hall, Olman Piedra; percussion



Ancient Voices of Children (George Crumb)

DMA recital IV, performed at Bryan Hall, BGSU on 3/19/2017, 8p.
Live recording.

Liz Pearse - soprano
Bethany Beardslee- recorded voice

Philomel - Milton Babbitt

DMA recital IV, performed at Bryan Hall, BGSU on 3/19/2017, 8p.
Live recording.

Liz Pearse - soprano
Kayleigh Butcher - mezzo-soprano

From the Grammar Of Dreams - Kaija Saariaho

DMA recital IV, performed at Bryan Hall, BGSU on 3/19/2017, 8p.
Live recording.

Liz Pearse - soprano

Shoshana - David Reminick

DMA recital IV, performed at Bryan Hall, BGSU on 3/19/2017, 8p.
Live recording.

Liz Pearse - soprano
Elainie Lillios, engineer and composer

Earth Ascending - Elainie Lillios

DMA recital IV, performed at Bryan Hall, BGSU on 3/19/2017, 8p.
Live recording.

Liz Pearse - soprano
Amanda DeBoer Bartlett - soprano

Bone Needles - Gilda Lyons

Taken with Tape app on iPad at 8:55a on October 3, 2018 at Maynooth University, Ireland - in the seminary chapel courtyard. Sounds of magpies, I think?

Maynooth Chapel courtyard, morning 10.3.18

Recorded live with Ioana Galu, violin and Karl Larson, piano
10/19/12 - Kobacker Hall, Bowling Green State University

Sunrise - Ives

Recorded live with Maria Bessmeltseva, violin - 10/18/12
Bryan Hall, Bowling Green State University


Spring Ice - (Richard Festinger)

Performed live at the Wolfe Center for the Arts - Donnell Theatre, February 3, 2013
The BGSU Philharmonia was conducted by John J. Pearse

Frühling (Spring)
September
Beim Schlafengehen (Going to sleep)
Im Abendrot (At sunset)

Strauss - Vier letzte Lieder

Minnesota-based soprano Liz Pearse has an affinity for music of the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as a long-standing love of the music of earlier periods, from medieval to Mozart. Check out her website for more information and more recent recordings!

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