Sacramento State’s New Millennium Concert Series: Dawn Upshaw

Now in its 16th year, the New Millennium Series continues its mission of presenting, at exceptional ticket prices, intimate performances by the finest chamber music ensembles and soloists in the U.S. and abroad. In addition, the Series showcases the distinguished members of the California State University Sacramento Department of Music in our annual Faculty and Friends Gala.

Five-time Grammy winner Dawn Upshaw has achieved worldwide celebrity as both a recitalist and performer of opera, with a repertoire spanning 250 years. She has received awards and distinctions accorded to only the most distinguished artists. In 2007 she was named a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation, the first vocal artist to be awarded the organization’s five-year “genius” prize, and in 2008 was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

She will be joined on the New Millennium Series by her longtime collaborator, the legendary pianist Gilbert Kalish, in a program of songs by Franz Schubert, Bela Bartok, Rebecca Clarke and William Bolcom.