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Concert Repertoire

"Joy transported her audience in the afternoon concert to the romance of lands afar. In songs by Sor, Berlioz, and Ravel, she was able to elicit that dynamic tension between sophistication and playfulness that for centuries has kept people coming back for more romance." Shelly Sanders Zuckerman, Music Director
   
CONCERT with Orchestra    
  Il Bacio (Arditi) Sei Ariette (Bellini) with Wind Quintet Seiben Frühe Lieder (Berg)
  Knoxville:  Summer of 1915 (Barber) Les Nuits d’Été (Berlioz)  
       
CONCERT with Solo Instruments    
  Seguidillas (Sor) Guitar Opera Romances (Berlioz, arr.) Guitar Se tu m’ami (Parisotti) Harp/Cello
  Colombetta (Buzzi-Peccia) Harp/Cello Ombra di Nube (Refice) Harp/Cello 5 Mélodies Populaires Grecques
(Ravel) Harp
       
ORATORIO with Choir & Orchestra    
  Ein deutsches Requiem (Brahms) The Creation (Hadyn) Fourth Symphony (Mendelssohn)
  Mass in G (Schubert) Stabat Mater (Rossini) Gloria (Poulenc)


Concert Performances (as soloist)    
  5+1 Wind Quintet Christ & St. Stephens (NYC) 2007
  Voice Faculty Concert Gill Chapel (NJ) 2005
  Benefit for Susan B. Komen Fd. Bristol Chapel (NJ) 2004
  Passion Songs+(Houghton) Greenville College  (IL) 2001
  Music Faculty Concert Bivins Chapel (OK) 1998
  Victory Songs**(Houghton) National Tour 1997
  Exsultate Jubilate Princeton United Methodist Church 1997
  Christmas Oratorio (Saint-Saëns) St. John’s RC (NJ) 1997
  Pioneer Songs **(Houghton) National Tour 1996
  Seven Last Words (Dubois) Flemington Presbyterian Church (NJ) 1996
  Gloria (Poulenc) St. John’s RC (NJ) 1996
  Festival of the Atlantic St. Peter’s by the Sea (NJ) 1995
       
  **world premiere musical documentary  +world premiere cantata