Upcoming Peformances

  • Berkeley Symphony

    Sun Nov 10, 2024

    4 PM

    Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley
    2430 Bancroft Avenue,
    Berkeley, CA 94704

    Joseph Young, conductor. Lisa Delan, soprano. Samuel Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915.

  • Chamber Recital

    Sun May 18, 2025

    4 PM

    The Forte House
    1498 24th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122

    Lisa Delan, soprano. David Barnett, clarinet. Kevin Korth, piano.

  • Volti

    Fri June 6, 2025, 8 PM
    Sat June 7, 2025,
    8 PM
    Sun June 8, 2025,
    3 PM

    Z Space
    450 Florida Street, San Francisco, CA 941103

    The Guardians of Yggdrasil, a staged work for chorus and electronic sounds. Libretto by Lisa Delan, music by Mark Winges.

Past Performances

  • July 18, 2024

    Festival Napa Valley

    Art Song Recital. Lisa Delan, soprano. David Barnett, clarinet. Kevin Korth, piano. CIA at Copia’s Ecolab Theatre.

    500 1st Street, Napa, CA.

  • March 7, 2024

    Angel of the Arts Award

    Honoring Gordon Getty. Poetry reading, "December 20, 1933"(commissioned by Festival Napa Valley).

    Sondheim: "No One is Alone" (from Into the Woods). Lisa Delan, soprano. David Barnett, clarinet. Kevin Korth, piano. Larry Dunlap, arranger.

  • July 18, 2023

    Festival Napa Valley

    Seasons of Hope concert. Constantine Orbelian conducting Festival Orchestra Napa with Volti Chorus. Gordon Getty’s arrangement for voice, choir, and orchestra of Shenandoah with soprano Lisa Delan.

    Charles Krug, 2800 Main Street, St. Helena, CA.

  • April 14, 2024

    Berkeley Symphony Chamber Series

    “Play on Words” with Lisa Delan.

    Gordon Getty: Four Dickinson Songs

    Jake Heggie: Shed No Tear (on a poem by John Keats). Lisa Delan, Soprano. Kevin Korth, piano. René Mandel, violin.

    Piedmont Center for the Arts, 801 Magnolia Ave, Piedmont, CA

  • July 18, 2022

    Festival Napa Valley

    Soprano Alexandra Armantrading premieres three songs on poems by Lisa Delan

    The Morning After (composer Jake Heggie)

    Journey (composer Luna Pearl Woolf)

    TRIAD (composer Jack Perla)

    Mont La Salle Chapel

  • May 15, 2022

    Berkeley Symphony Chamber Series

    David Garner: Vilna Poems 

    Lisa Delan, Soprano. René Mandel, violin. Evan Kahn, cello. Roman Fukshansky, clarinet. Kevin Korth, piano.

    Piedmont Center for the Arts, 801 Magnolia Ave, Piedmont, CA

  • November 3, 2021

    4th Annual Kristin Pankonin American Art Song Award

    Showcase Concert. Ned Rorem (b. 1923).

    Selections from Ariel: Five Poems of Sylvia Plath. Poppies in July, Words, Poppies in October.

    Lisa Delan, soprano. David Barnett, clarinet. Kevin Korth, piano.

    San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Bowes Center.

  • December 31, 2019

    Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

    On New Year’s Eve in Katowice Poland, Lisa joined the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, led by Maestro Lawrence Foster for Knoxville: Summer of 1915, op.24 by composer Samuel Barber, with original text by James Agee.

  • July 22, 2018

    Lisa reprised Canteloube’s Chants d’Auvergne at Festival Napa Valley’s sold-out Sunday at the Symphony: Tribute to First Responders program. Blackburn Music Academy Orchestra, Martin West (conductor).

  • May 22, 2018

    Appearing with Los Angeles Virtuosi Orchestra, Carlo Ponti Jr., (conductor), Lisa performed Joseph Canteloube’s lovely Chants d’Auvergne – a group of folk songs from the French region of Auvergne.

  • February 1-2, 2018

    Lisa reprised the title role in Gordon Getty’s cantata Joan and the Bells with Berkeley Symphony under the baton of Keitaro Harada (guest conductor) together with Lester Lynch (baritone). Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley, Caroline H. Hume Hall, San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

  • May 7, 2017

    Lisa joined Kathryn Roszak (choreographer) at the Djerassi Residency Artists Program in Woodside, CA for a performance of Roszak’s interdisciplinary work The Pensive Spring.

  • September 23, 2016

    Lisa performed Gretchen to Faust with the Russian National Orchestra (RNO), Vladislav Lavrik (conductor). Part of RNO’s annual Grand Festival in Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Hall.

  • August 24, 2016

    Along with Matt Haimovitz (cello) and Kevin Korth (piano), Lisa performed an American Song Recital at Steingraeber Concert Hall, Bayreuth, Germany.

  • February 21, 2016

    Lisa premiered Gordon Getty’s Gretchen to Faust with the Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev (conductor). San Francisco’s Davies Symphony Hall.

  • November 20, 2015

    Release event performance for the new PentaTone album December Celebration. Lisa Delan (soprano), Bruce Rameker (baritone), musicians from New Century Chamber Orchestra (NCCO), Dawn Harms (conductor), and Volti Chorus. Caroline H. Huxe Concert Hall, San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

  • July 26, 2015

    Lisa’s and Luna Pearl-Wolf’s Angel Heart:A Music Storybook presented by Festival del Sole (now Festival Napa Valley). Lisa Delan (soprano), Frederica von Stade (mezzo-soprano), Bruce Rameker (baritone), Ryan Belongie (countertenor), Matt Haimovitz and Uccello (cellos), Cornelia Funke (special guest narrator).

  • July 5, 2015

    Lisa performed Rumi: Quatrains of Love with Mari Kodama (piano), Matt Haimovitz (cello) as part of “Forest Hill Musical Days,” San Francisco, CA.

  • May 23, 2015

    Concert by Lisa at Shangri La (Honolulu) with Matt Haimovitz (cello) and Jonathan Korth (piano).

  • April 12, 2015

    Lisa performed the title role in Joan and the Bells by Gordon Getty. Lester Lynch (baritone), Russian National Orchestra, Lawrence Foster (conductor). Auditorium-Orchestre National de Lyon, France.

  • February 14, 2015

    Selections from Lisa’s and Luna Pearl Wolf’s Angel Heart: A Music Storybook as part of appearance on From the Top, nationally syndicated radio program. Lisa Delan (soprano), Matt Haimovitz (cello), Cornelia Funke (story, narrator) and Christopher O’Riley (piano).

  • February 11, 2015

    Lisa performed as part of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s (SFCM) Distinguished Alumni Recital Series with special guests including Matt Haimovitz (cello), Jake Heggie (piano), Christopher O’Riley (piano), Robert Schwartz (piano) and Kevin Korth (piano). Sol Joseph Recital Hall, SFCM.

  • January 6, 2014

    Lisa sang Gordon Getty’s Four Dickinson Songs in an 80th birthday celebration concert of the composer. San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor), Robin Sutherland (piano), Frederica von Stade (mezzo-soprano) and Placido Domingo (baritone). Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, CA.

  • October 21, 2013

    East Coast premiere of Lisa’s and Luna Pearl Wolf’s Angel Heart: A Music Songbook. Lisa Delan (soprano), Frederica von Stade (mezzo-soprano), Bruce Rameker (baritone), Daniel Taylor (countertenor), Matt Haimovitz and Uccello (cellos). Zankel Hall in Carnegie Hall, New York, NY.

  • October 6, 2013

    West Coast premiere of Lisa’s and Luna Pearl Wolf’s Angel Heart: A Music Storybook as part of Cal Performances. Lisa Delan (soprano), Frederica von Stade (mezzo-soprano), Bruce Rameker (baritone), Daniel Taylor (tenor), Matt Haimovitz and Uccello (cellos). Berkeley, CA.

  • May 19, 2013

    Lisa premiered From the Book of Nightmares with Jake Heggie (composer, piano) and Emil Miland (cello) at Noe Valley Chamber Music, San Francisco, CA.

  • March 9, 2013

    Premiered David Garner’s Vilna Poems on Yiddish texts by Avrom Sutskever, with Kristin Pankonin (piano), Matt Haimovitz, (cello) and David Krakauer (clarinet) as part of the Jewish Music Festival, Berkeley Repertory Theater, Berkeley, CA.

  • September 16, 2012

    Lisa sang the title role in Joan and the Bells by Gordon Getty. Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev (conductor). Tchaikovsky Hall, Moscow.

  • July 18, 2012

    Lisa and Kristin Pankonin (piano) performed in recital at Festival del Sole (now Festival Napa Valley).

It’s gratifying to find a singer involved so intimately and actively with the music of her time.
— Opera News