14th August
Dawn Upshaw (soprano) with Gilbert Kalish (piano)
Wed 14th Aug
St Canice’s Cathedral
St Canice’s Cathedral
Few singers can boast, alongside four Grammy awards, a “genius” Fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation for “enriching the landscape of contemporary music”, but Dawn Upshaw is no ordinary soprano. Even before she appeared on Henryk Górecki’s million-selling Symphony No. 3 in the early 1990s, Upshaw was feted both for the quality of her voice and for her rare ability to cut to the heart of the music.
