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Don’t let summer slip through your fingers; slow down with us and smell musical flowers. With selections from classical, golden age, and contemporary musical theater, the eighth installment of Matthew J. Lorenz’s YEAR of Cabaret! aims to dazzle and enchant. Brianna is fresh from her recent victory at Davenport’s $1000 Sing-Off! and you won’t want to miss this reprise of her winning performance.
Brianna Murray has been praised for having “one of those soprano voices, clear, perfectly-placed, angelic, that could go on all day and I would still want more” (Herald Times). Brianna began the 2023/24 season performing with the St. Petersburg Opera as Oberto in Alcina. Brianna has performed frequently this season with Madison Opera as a studio artist, performing as Jeanette in L'amant Anonyme and covering Cunegonde in Candide. Last season, Brianna performed in productions with Chicago Opera Theater and Indianapolis Opera. Other operatic highlights include Barbarina in Le Nozze di Figaro, Frasquita in Carmen, and Clorinda in La Cenerentola. Brianna also works as a teaching artist for the Lyric Opera of Chicago and teaches private voice lessons.
Matthew Lorenz is a growing artistic presence in the American Midwest and the international stage at large. Matthew’s performance experience as a pianist extends from Bismarck, ND to Santa Rosa, NM, then Paris; and beyond, now currently active in Chicago. Besides his regular performing schedule Matthew is on the Piano Faculty at the New Music School, the Gold Coast’s premier music academy. Read more about Matthew at his website, mlorenzmusic.squarespace.com!
Matthew has become a regular performer at Davenport’s since playing his first cabaret there in Spring of ‘22 (he prepared for character by watching Liza Manelli’s 1972 classic Cabaret! three or four times). Now he chases cabaret’s electric atmosphere, and is on a mission to present a new cabaret at Davenport’s every month of 2024: the YEAR of Cabaret!