AS PERFORMER:
As the Father in Hansel and Gretel | Opera by Engelbert Humperdinck
Video project for Bel Cantanti Opera Company
September-October 2020
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Water Music | Art Song in Recital
POSTPONED – MARCH 2021 – STAY TUNED FOR MORE DETAILS!
Daniel Neer, baritone and Suzanne Newcomb, piano
Riley Auditorium at the Battelle Fine Arts Center
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The hypnotic and dramatic effect of oceans, lakes, rivers and streams is the theme of this program of songs by British and American composers. Baritone Daniel Neer and pianist Suzanne Newcomb will present heartwarming ocean songs, violent storm ballads, shimmering fountain music, placid folk songs and rollicking sea shanties that illustrate the wildly diverse nature of water.
Water Music will feature songs by John Ireland, Gilda Lyons, John Duke, Kurt Weill, Karen Tanaka, and Charles Ives. Also featuring the song cycle Gitchee Gumee by Jonathan David with text by Daniel Neer, based on the 1975 sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior; and the World Premiere of Sandy Songs with music by Linda Kernohan and text by Daniel Neer, inspired by the impact of Hurricane Sandy on New York City in 2015.
Performance Details:
POSTPONED – NEW DETAILS COMING SOON!
30 W Woodruff Avenue, Columbus Ohio
POSTPONED – NEW DETAILS COMING SOON!
Riley Auditorium at the Battelle Fine Arts Center
Otterbein University
170 W. Park Street
Westerville, Ohio
Lucky Dragon Number Five | Chamber work for baritone and percussion ensemble
WORLD PREMIERE
POSTPONED – NEW DETAILS COMING SOON!
Spencer Stern, composer
Daniel Neer, lyricist and performer
Riley Auditorium at Battelle Fine Arts Center
Otterbein University | Westerville, Ohio
more information coming soon!
NEW RECORDINGS / VIDEO:
| Kontaken Records (KR109) And Here We Are, a shadow puppet opera Music by Matthew Welch, Libretto by Daniel NeerRecorded Live at National Sawdust, May 6, 2018Available now at Kontaken Records
Also available soon on iTunes, Apple Music, Amazon, Spotify, Google Play and YouTube
Centaur (CRC 3723) The Persistence of Song – songs of Jonathan David Featuring: “Gitchee Gumee”, a song cycle with text by Daniel Neer, with Trudy Chan on piano “The Persistence of Song”, a song cycle with texts by Muriel Rukeyser, Howard Moss, Bonnie Phelps, and Thomas Merton, with Trudy Chan on Piano and Elizabeth Derham on violin. Available now at Centaur Records
NEWLY RELEASED DVD: CLOCLO – Operetta in Three Acts by Franz Lehár Stage Direction by Steven A. Daigle | Musical Direction by Steven Byess Recorded Live at the 2018 Ohio Light Opera Summer Festival. Available now at Operetta Foundation |
AS LIBRETTIST / LYRICIST / WRITER:
A Reading of Two One-Act Plays in Development
February 12, 2020 | 7:30pm
Workshop reading of Trope Topaz and The Interview
The Dramatists Guild, Baltimore Chapter
St. Marks Evangelical Lutheran Church (2nd Floor)
Lucky Dragon Number Five
POSTPONED – NEW DETAILS COMING SOON!
A Chamber Work for Lyric Baritone and Percussion Ensemble
Music by Spencer Stern, Libretto by Daniel Neer
Otterbein University | Westerville, Ohio
(for more information, see performance calendar above)
WORKS IN PROGRESS:
EMET (truth)
New Opera in One Act
Music by Ronnie Reshef | Libretto by Daniel Neer
Commissioned by Oded Zehavi and the Israeli Music Festival
Projected premiere: Spring/Summer 2020
Hopper Haiku
Twenty-One Songs for Voice and Piano
Inspired by America’s Premiere Realist Painter
Music by Ellen Mandel, Haiku by Daniel Neer
POLAR BEAR
Chamber Work for Baritone and Trombone
On Themes of Global Warming
Music by Sara Graef, Poetry by Daniel Neer