Tyler Duncan, baritone
Erika Switzer, piano

Works by Beethoven, Iman Habibi, Jocelyn Morlock, and Jeffrey Ryan. 

This is not your typical St. Valentine’s concert. Our partnership began with Lieder, drawing us away from our home of British Columbia, Canada, to pursue studies in Germany. Through the veil of an unfamiliar language and culture, we felt the pull of home, and a wish to express our feelings of connection to each other and our shared geography through music.
   These song cycles reflect the quarter century we have spent together on and off the stage. They tell a story of a complicated, messy, lasting, and wonderful collaboration, through the incredible music of Beethoven, Habibi, Morlock, and Ryan and the inspiring poetry of Zwicky, Ashton, Khayyãm, and Jeitteles.

“Home, the ache of the invisible” – Jan Zwicky.

FALSE MORNING
THE RIVER-LIP
Iman Habibi (b. 1985) poetry by Omar Khayyám (1048-1131) from The Rubaiyat
translated by Edward FitzGerald (1809-1883)

INVOLUNTARY LOVE SONGS
Jocelyn Morlock (1969-2023)

Thaw
Matches
Script

AN DIE FERNE GELIEBTE, OP. 98
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) poetry by Alois Jeitteles (1794-1858)

EVERYTHING ALREADY LOST
Jeffrey Ryan (b. 1962) poetry by Jan Zwicky (b. 1955)

Bill Evans: Alone
Autumn Alone
Night Music
Schumann: Fantasie, Op. 17