May
29
to May 31
Jan
11
5:00 PM17:00
Brooklyn Art Song Society: Janáček and Schoenberg
A double bill of modernist masterpieces, each using bold musical languages to explore the depths of the human heart.
Leoš Janáček: Diary of One Who Disappeared
Arnold Schoenberg: Das Buch der hängenden Gärten, Op.15
Katherine Lerner-Lee, Maia Sumanaweera soprano
Katherine Lerner, Kate Maroney mezzo soprano
Dylan Morrongiello tenor
Michael Brofman, Brent Funderburk piano
(Brooklyn Art Song Society, 2025)
Oct
12
7:30 PM19:30
Ear Taxi Festival: Composer Showcase
Ear Taxi Festival is proud to partner with Ravinia’s Steans Institute to present Sabrina Langlois, soprano, Joanne Evans, mezzo-soprano, and Brent Funderburk, piano for an evening of freshly composed art songs. Paul Novak’s "youth" sets a text by Chicago-based poet Victoria Flanagan and explores ghosts and haunting as a metaphor for queerness and trauma. Liza Sobel Crane’s work “Worth” focuses on social media and how it affects users’ body image. Bradley Robin’s “bliss” charmingly explores recovering from the loss of innocence when a child's knowledge of the world is realized. Blair Boyd writes music for a series of poems about a woman who has decided to leave society and be alone. (Ear Taxi Festival, 2025)
Feb
2
5:00 PM17:00
Brooklyn Art Song Society: Histories of the Viennese School
The lieder of Mozart and Haydn represent the charming innocence of Viennese Classicism. Beethoven’s revolutionary innovations in song changed forever what was possible with poetry and music.
Franz Joseph Haydn: Selected Songs
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Selected Songs
Ludwig van Beethoven: Adelaide, Op. 46, An die Hoffnung, Op.94 An Die Ferne Geliebte Op. 98
Ashley Emerson, Maggie Finnegan soprano
Katherine Lerner mezzo-soprano
Michael Kelly baritone
Mike Brofman, Brent Funderburk, Joel Harder piano
Sep
7
2:00 PM14:00
Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago: Shakespeare's People
On Concert II of the 2024 Collaborative Works Festival, soprano Hannah De Priest, baritone Schyler Vargas, and pianist Brent Funderburk join artistic director Nicholas Phan for a program unpacking the question "what do artists do with the words and themes of Shakespeare throughout time?"
Curated by Phan, this program weaves musical explorations from classical and romantic composers to those writing art song today who are grappling with Shakespeare's texts, his iconic characters, and themes of love and loss explored in his writing.
Jun
17
to Jun 30
2024 Schmidt Vocal Institute
The next generation of classical singers travel from across the country to participate in this two-week immersive experience to take lessons with esteemed professional artists and perform in master classes with world-renowned performers.
Jun
1
to Jun 2
May
2
7:30 PM19:30
Brooklyn Art Song Society: New Voices Festival
Each work on this program explores the meaning of loss. Katherine Balch’s poignant reimagining of Schumann’s Dichterliebe, Iranian-born Aida Shirazi’s new reflection on identity, and new works by Matthew Ricketts and Charlotte Bray.
Sep
8
7:30 PM19:30
Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago: We Are
This program expands on the question of what it means to sing of oneself: Who are we in relation to those around us? What does it mean to sing of ourselves? What does it mean to be in community with one another? Artists include tenor and artistic director of CAIC Nicholas Phan; baritone Laureano Quant; and mezzo-soprano Zoie Reams.
Jun
19
to Jul 2
Schmidt Vocal Institute
Brent returns to Miami University for a two-week intensive for some of the most gifted young singers in the country. This will be his fourth summer on faculty.
Jun
2
to Jun 4
National Schmidt Vocal Competition
The first, second, and third-place winners of regional Schmidt Vocal Competitions in the 2022-2023 season are automatically eligible to compete in the Nationals. Brent will support young singers from across the country on the stage of Sarasota Opera as they compete for over $25,000 in awards.
Feb
17
to Feb 19
Furman Lyric Theater: The Pirates of Penzance
As Music Director of the Furman Lyric Theater, Brent makes his conducting debut in Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance.
Nov
4
7:30 PM19:30
Brooklyn Art Song Society
An entire generation of British lives were shattered by the Great War. This program features works by George Butterworth and Ivor Gurney, who wrote their greatest masterpieces in the trenches, as well as modern reflections from Iain Bell and Ian Venables.
Iain Bell The Undying Splendour
George Butterworth A Shropshire Lad
Gerald Finzi Channel Firing
Ivor Gurney Selected Songs
Ian Venables Through These Pale Cold Days Op. 46
Dylan Morrongiello tenor
Steven Eddy, Brian James Myer baritone
Michael Brofman, Brent Funderburk piano
Chieh-Fan Yiu viola
Sep
23
to Oct 31
PBS Great Performances: Intimate Apparel
As part of Great Performances’ 50th anniversary season, experience Intimate Apparel featuring music by Ricky Ian Gordon, a libretto by Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage, this powerful opera is directed by Tony winner Bartlett Sher.
Great Performances is available for streaming concurrent with broadcast on PBS.org and the PBS Video App, available on iOS, Android, Roku streaming devices, Apple TV, Android TV, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung Smart TV, Chromecast and VIZIO.
Jul
3
to Jul 22
CoOPERAtive Program
The CoOPERAtive program provides three weeks of intensive training for the young singer. The program is presented in cooperation and consultation with professionals in the field to help young singers build and strengthen their artistic toolbox. Participants receive private voice lessons, music, language and drama coaching, as well as classes in body work, diction, and drama. Our focus is on musical style, performance techniques, dramatic presentation, language, diction, and body awareness.
Jun
20
to Jul 3
Schmidt Vocal Institute
Serious high school singers from across the country who are ready to take the plunge into this two-week immersive experience will enjoy lessons with esteemed professional artists, master classes with world-renowned performers, and dorm living with like-minded musicians. Located at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, Schmidt Vocal Institute (SVI) will helps young musicians become a better artist and gain both confidence and a newfound vision for what it takes to have a career as a professional singer.
Jun
4
7:30 PM19:30
Schmidt Vocal Arts Alumni Recital
In celebration of 25 years of the Schmidt Vocal Competition, SVA alumni soprano Virginia Mims and tenor Aaron Crouch will present a recital of song, arias, and duets with pianist Brent Funderburk. The Finalists for the Schmidt Vocal Competition will be announced at the concert.
Apr
22
to Apr 24
Jan
13
to Mar 6
Lincoln Center Theater: Intimate Apparel
INTIMATE APPAREL was three weeks into previews before the performing arts shutdown in March 2020. The show had been bringing audiences to their feet nightly, cheering for the moving performances and for the joy of hearing Lynn Nottage’s story and Ricky Ian Gordon’s music in the intimate Newhouse. Now, Lincoln Center Theater is delighted that INTIMATE APPAREL will return this winter to continue its run!
Directed by Resident Director Bartlett Sher, the show is part of The Met/LCT Opera/Musical Theater Commissioning Program, and it is the first opera to be done at LCT.
INTIMATE APPAREL, set in 1905 in turn of the century New York, tells the story of Esther, a lonely, single African-American woman who makes her living sewing beautiful corsets and ladies’ undergarments. There is warm affection between her and the Orthodox Jewish man who sells fabrics to her, but any relationship between them, even a touch, is completely forbidden. Seeking love and romance, Esther eventually embarks on a letter-writing relationship with a mysterious suitor laboring on the Panama Canal. When he moves to New York they embark on an unhappy marriage, leading Esther to realize that only her self-reliance and certainty of her own worth will see her through life’s challenges.
Nov
5
7:30 PM19:30
Brooklyn Art Song Society: Remembering
Two monumental British song cycles explore the fleeting wonder of youth. Brent plays Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Songs of Travel with baritone Joshua Conyers. Also on the program is Gerald Finzi’s A Young Man’s Exhortation, Op. 14 with tenor Dominic Armstrong and pianist Michael Brofman. Pre-concert lecture at 7:00PM by Erik Gray (Columbia University).
Digital release will be available on Monday, November 22, 2021
Jul
5
to Jul 23
CoOPERAtive Program 2021
The CoOPERAtive program provides three weeks of intensive training for young singers. Serving as music director & coach, Brent joins the faculty for his fifth summer.
The program will be held in a virtual format for Summer 2021 for the safety and convenience of all participants.
Jun
21
to Jul 4
Schmidt Vocal Institute
Located at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, the Schmidt Vocal Institute (SVI) is a two-week intensive for gifted high school singers who look to gain both confidence and a newfound vision for what it takes to have a career as a professional singer.
Apr
25
4:00 PM16:00
Brooklyn Art Song Society: Classical Interludes
Watch LIVE on YouTube or Facebook.
Presented by Brooklyn Art Song Society and Bklyn Public Library, Classical Interludes will feature a program that explores two essential musical partnerships with the 20th-century’s greatest literary radical. Hanns Eisler’s Holywooder Liederbuch uses Brecht’s experience as a refugee during World War II to explore the modern condition. Kurt Weill’s Jazz-infused Die Dreigroschenoper acted as Brecht’s Credo, a slap in the face to polite society and conventional drama. Brent will join soprano Justine Aronson for selections by Weill.
Jun
22
to Jul 5
Schmidt Vocal Institute
A two-week intensive with gifted high school singers from across the country, Schmidt Vocal Institute offers lessons, coachings, and master classes with world-renowned artists to the next generation of classical singers. Brent serves as a pianist and member of the SVI faculty.
Feb
27
to May 3
Intimate Apparel
INTIMATE APPAREL TO REOPEN IN FALL 2021. The production was forced to suspend performances on March 12 when theaters were closed by Governor Andrew Cuomo as a precaution against the outbreak of Covid-19.
Feb
9
7:30 PM19:30
Guggenheim Works and Process Series: Intimate Apparel
A behind-the-scenes look at the new chamber opera based on Lynn Nottage’s popular play Intimate Apparel, with music by Ricky Ian Gordon and a libretto by the playwright, and directed by Bartlett Sher. Dramaturg and Director of the Opera Commissioning Program at The Metropolitan Opera Paul Cremo moderates a discussion with Gordon, Nottage, and Sher and cast members perform highlights, ahead of the opera’s opening performance on February 27.
Jan
27
7:00 PM19:00
The Theater Makers: A Black Theatre Preview
An evening of conversation, commentary, and performance featuring the cast and creative team of Intimate Apparel to celebrate the presence of black theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadway and beyond.
Nov
8
9:30 PM21:30
Nov
4
to Nov 5
Nov
1
7:30 PM19:30
Oct
17
6:30 PM18:30