Recognize the woman third from the left? It’s Jennifer Lane, a frequent visitor to Hawaii, singing with the Early Music Hawaii Singers! If you may remember, Jennifer sang her first concert in Hawaii when my husband Carl Crosier contracted her to sing in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion in the year 2000.

Here’s part of Jennifer’s bio from her website:

Mezzo-soprano Jennifer Lane is “a singer whose dark, bottomless voice is matched by her expressiveness and intelligence.” The press has described her singing as “clear, rich, plangent,” “compelling and dramatic,” and possessing “agility and charisma.” She has been featured by many of the most prestigious institutions and orchestras in the US and abroad. These include the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, San Francisco Opera, Opéra Monte Carlo, Opéra du Caen, and the San Francisco Symphony, Minnesota Symphony, Jerusalem Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, and National Symphony, with conductors ranging from Robert Shaw, Robert Craft, Michael Tilson Thomas, Graeme Jenkins, Nicholas McGegan, Monica Huggett, William Christie, Mark Minkowski, and Andrew Parrott, as well as with period instrument ensembles such as Freiburger Barock, Philharmonia Baroque, Handel & Haydn Society of Boston, Les Arts Florissants, and Les Musiciens du Louvre, in concerts throughout the US, Europe, South America, and the Middle East.

Ms. Lane has over fifty CD recordings to her name on a wide variety of labels, as well as two films: Dido & Aeneas (with the Mark Morris Dance Group and Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra) and The Opera Lover, a romantic comedy.

The Early Music Hawaii concert is on Saturday night, May 20 at 7:30 pm at the Lutheran Church of Honolulu and will feature works by English composer William Byrd who died in 1623. Hence, it’s been 400 years since his death. Dr. Alec Schumacker will direct the Early Music Hawaii Singers. I laid out the program last week, which you can view below. (Nicholas Lee will be singing tenor, replacing Tomás Ramos)

You can hear Jennifer Lane singing in this sneak preview, and if you look carefully, you might spot me sitting at the continuo organ!

Purchase tickets at the Early Music Hawaii website. I’ll be playing William Byrd’s “Fantasia in C” in addition to accompanying the choir on “Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes” and two solos, “My mind to me a kingdom is” with Georgine Stark and “Why do I use my paper, ink and pen?” with Buz Tennent.

Please come!