The Athenians join Chinese performers in an exciting opera gala program celebrating Chinese New Year at Carnegie's Zankel Hall. 

Featuring performers Cody Austin, Megan Weston, Franco Pomponi, Michael Fennelly, Analia Farfan, Matthew Curran, Amy Maude Helfer, Matthew Ciufitelli, Juliana Curcio, and Rachel Querreveld

Soprello, a musical collaboration between soprano Allison Pohl and cellist Alistair MacRae, explore the connections between vibrating strings and the human voice.  In the interaction between these instruments, Soprello aims to engage audiences with music new and old, both specific to its instrumentation and inventively repurposed. Building on live and radio performances in New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, Washington, and Ontario, Allison and Alistair have worked to create a new repertoire for their combination, spanning over 300 years of musical history. Soprello has given premiere performances of new works by Stephen Gerber, David Dzubay, and Rick Sowash, and will be premiering a new arrangement of the Bach/Gounod Ave Maria by Dr. Michael Fennelly.

Veteran te the Metropolitan Opera, tenor Gregory Lorenz will premiere a new arrangement by Dr. Michael Fennelly for string sextet  of Six Songs from  A Shropshire Lad by George Butterworth.  In addition, Dr. Fennelly conducts the Metamorphosis Chamber Orchestra in Arnold Schoenberg's intensely romantic Verklärte Nacht ("Transfigured Night") inspired by the poem by Richard Dehmel.  The program includes  songs by Duparc and Messiaen's mystical duet "La mort du nombre" with soprano Megan Weston.   Gregory Lorenz is known for his vivid interpretations of repertoire from all periods. Recent appearances have focused on concert performances of Mozart’s operas, with the Pacific Symphony, Opera Camerata in Washington, DC, and the Piccolo Spoleto Festival.

 Presented by Athena Music Foundation,  world-renowned opera singer and Broadway star Alyson Cambridge performed a special holiday concert, accompanied by pianist Michael Fennelly at Carnegie Hall's gorgeous Weill Recital Hall on November 25, 2018.   The evening's primarily classical repertoire included art song, opera, African American spirituals and holiday favorites. With special guests two-time Tony-nominated singer  Constantine Maroulis and the Port Jervis Children's Choir.

 Athena Music Foundation presents Megan Weston, soprano and Michael Fennelly, piano in The Paris Salon: Age of the Romantic Virtuoso on Friday, September 14, 2018 at the beautiful Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara. The duo performs the exhilarating and elegant music of the nineteenth century and offers illuminating insights on the supremacy of opera, the triumph of the international virtuoso, and the reign of the Paris Salon. 

The inaugural performance of the Athena Music Foundation Recital and Chamber Music Series featured international soprano Joanna Mongiardo ("a triumph" - Opera News) and eminent pianist Rachelle Jonck in an afternoon of songs by Clara Schumann, Mozart, Rossini, and the New York premiere of Scott Wheeler's song cycle Three Night Songs at the National Opera Center in New York City on September 17, 2017.