Elizabeth Keusch
soprano
American soprano Elizabeth Keusch is rapidly emerging as an artist to watch and has already been heard in major venues worldwide. She has performed recently in Disney Hall with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and composer/conductor Thomas Ades in works by Castiglioni and Kurtág and in the Seattle Chamber Players’ Icebreaker III Festival. Highlights of the 2009/10 season included Helmut Lachenmann’s …got lost…at the ECLAT Festival Neue Musik in Stuttgart, Germany, and a Mozart Requiem and Haydn’s Paukenmesse with the National Chorale at Avery Fisher Hall. During the summer of 2010 she was heard at the Oregon Bach Festival and with the Colorado Symphony. The 2008/09 season brought debut performances with the Cleveland Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra chamber ensemble in Oliver Knussen’s Requiem: Songs for Sue, Louisiana Philharmonic in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and Handel’s Messiah, as well as Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with the Helena Symphony.
Widely recognized for her remarkable musicianship, Ms. Keusch is an avid champion of chamber music and new music. In 2006 she toured Portugal with Ensemble Contrapunctus performing Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire and Shostokovich’s Seven Block Songs. Ms. Keusch has had successive collaborations on Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Green Umbrella Series and with Boston Musica Viva, Collage New Music (Boston), the Seattle Chamber Players and Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin. In 2005 Ms. Keusch toured the northeast with both the Borromeo and Brentano String Quartets performing Schoenberg’s 2nd String Quartet, and she debuted at the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society in Alice Tully Hall with the Pacifica Quartet in Osvaldo Golijov’s Tenebre and How Slow the Wind.
Also in demand for opera productions worldwide, Ms. Keusch gave the 2005 world premiere of Matthias Pintscher’s L’espace dernier conducted by Kwame Ryan in her debut with Opéra National de Paris, and premiered the role of Medea in Paul-Heinz Dittrich’s opera Zerbrochene Bilder with the Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin and Musikakademie Rheinsberg. She performed the leading role of First Soprano in Helmut Lachenmann’s Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern with the Stuttgart Staatsoper in Stuttgart and Paris with director Peter Mussbach and conductor Lothar Zagrosek. She repeated the work in a production directed by Alfred Kirchner with Neue Oper Wien in the 2003 Wiener Festwochen. With Encompass New Opera Theatre (NYC) Keusch was seen as Yvonne in Antheil’s Venus in Africa, Phaedra in Britten’s dramatic oratorio of the same name and the title role in Argento’s Miss Havisham’s Wedding Night.
Ms. Keusch holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of North Texas, a Master’s of Music Degree and an Artist Diploma from New England Conservatory. While at New England Conservatory she was named the 2001 Presidential Scholar for the Conservatory. The soprano was a Tanglewood Fellow in summers 1997 and 1999. Elizabeth Keusch resides in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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