• Haydn: Folk Songs for Voice with Violin, Cello and Piano

The American soprano, Lauren Skuce, is noted for her versatility on both the opera and concert stage, and is acknowledged as one of today's rising young artists.  A Sullivan Award winner, she is the recipient of many notable prizes, including the 2002 DeRosa Career Grant from the Juilliard School, the Catherine Filene Shouse Study Grant from Wolf Trap Opera, the Richard Gaddes Fund Career Grant from Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, a London Foundation Career Grant, a Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation Study Grant, and an Opera Index award. As a 2007 fellow of the Tanglewood Music Center, she sang Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte under James Levine.  With New York City Opera, Lauren Skuce made her debut as Lucia in The Rape of Lucretia, performed Mrs. Anderssen in A Little Night Music, Suor Genevieve in Suor Angelica, Laoula in L'Étoile, and returned to sing Morgana in a new production of G.F. Handel's Alcina.

Lauren Skuce made her Carnegie Hall debut with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra performing Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's Stabat Mater.  An accomplished recitalist, Lauren Skuce made her New York City recital debut in Alice Tully Hall, and has appeared with the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the Marlboro Music Festival, and the New York Festival of Song in works varying from Caccini to Shostakovich and Gershwin. She has been heard in New York under the auspices of the Marilyn Horne Foundation's recital series "On Wings of Song," in a recital of Tchaikovsky songs at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and in solo recital in West Palm Beach.