soprano Vismaya Lhi

graduated with Honors from the University of California at Santa Cruz and has sung in Italy, Mexico, Canada and the United States recently performing in concert for the Methow Valley Chamber Music Festival in Washington State with guitarist/composer Dusan Bogdanovic. She also gave a vocal master class for the Pipestone Institute during the week following that concert.. Recent events and venues include the San Francisco Classical Guitar Society with Frank Jaffe as Ensemble Calisto and the “Benefit for Asia” with Grupo Andanza at the San Francisco Humanities Building singing Spanish Zarzuela and Sephardic Songs.  Local appearances have included Falkirk Cultural Center, Grace Cathedral, The Santa Cruz Baroque Festival, Theatre Flamenco, Julia Morgan Center, Giorgi Gallery, Kathryn Roszak’s Anima Mundi, The San Francisco Conservatory of Music, The Cabrillo Music Festival and Jarvis Conservatory.  In addition, she has premiered new works by various composers as a guest artist of the Carl Djerassi Foundation.  She premiered Five Songs on poems by Gabriela Mistral by composer Dusan Bogdanovic for the Augustine Imperial Guitar Series at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City; these songs were written and dedicated to her.  She has also recorded the Native American Indian Songs by Mr. Bogdanovic for Doberman-Yppan publications, Montreal, Canada.  For her work on that CD, entitled Canticles, she has received widespread critical acclaim.  During the last years of his life, she worked closely with the late Joaquin Nin-Culmell (who was the last living student of Manuel Falla) for whom she premiered and recorded several new songs. She has also recorded Kurt Weill’s Je ne t’aime pas for director Debbie Lum’s film A Great Deal which was premiered at the Asian-American Film Festival. She has performed the soprano roles in many oratorios such as Handel’s Messiah,  Bach’s B minor Mass and the Mozart Requiem.  Opera roles have included Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro, Rosina in Rossini’s Barber of Seville and the Messagiera in Monteverdi’s Orfeo. She is currently the assistant conductor for *Verismo Opera*, Vacaville. With this company she has sung Inez in Verdi's Il Trovatore, Suzuki in Puccini's Madama Butterfly, Amahl in Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors, Annina in Verdi's La Traviata and in May and June of 2010, Angelica in Puccini's Suor Angelica. Concerts in progress include a Cabaret show of works by Poulenc, Satie and Kurt Weill as well as a concert/one woman show exploring the era and the music of Joaquin Nin-Culmell, his friends, associates and teachers during this critical moment in Spain. Her recording of Sephardic and folk song Improvisations as well as original compositions by and with guitarist/composer Dusan Bogdanovic is available for purchase as mp3 downloads on this website. 

 

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