Rachel will join the Cornell Symphony for a performance of Samuel Barber’s epic “concert scene” Knoxville: Summer of 1915.
Rachel will present on Welsh folksong at the Blas International Summer School of Irish Traditional Music and Dance at the Irish World Academy at the University of Limerick.
Over the past two years, Rachel and collaborators Andrea Christie, Chris Gross, and Ashlee Miller, have been recording an album of the vocal works of American composer Jeff Myers. To celebrate the launch of the album on June 5th, the artists will join together in New York City for a recital of Myers music. Join us for a riveting evening of new music.
Rachel joins Xak Bjerken for an excerpt of James Matheson’s epic work Times Alone and Anna Weesner’s song “Practicing”. In this concert, Cornell’s Ensemble X celebrates the life and influence of Cornell composition professor Steve Stuckey.
Rachel joins the Welsh Church of NYC for their annual Gymanfa Gang. Join us for a fun afternoon of Welsh hymn singing!
Rachel joins the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes for a performance as soprano soloist in Haydn’s epic "Creation”. Don’t miss it!
Rachel and pianist extraordinaire Xak Bjerken join forces in a recital that features music by Welsh composers Hilary Tann, John Metcalf, and Meirion Williams, alongside songs by Henri Duparc, James Matheson, and Marc Blitzstein.
Rachel will join Prof. Patrice Pastore on her final recital as an Ithaca College faculty member. The two will perform a duet by Meredith Monk.
Rachel joins Xak Bjerken to perform five songs by American composer Marc Bliztstein with Ensemble X. Cornell’s Ensemble X presents BOULANGERIE 1 which celebrates the influence of teacher Nadia Boulanger, with works by Lili Boulanger, Walter Piston, Phillip Glass, Eliot Carter, Marc Blitzstein, and music by Cornellians Steven Stucky and Igor Santos, including the East coast premiere of Steven Stucky's final work, The Music of Light, performed by the Cayuga Vocal Ensemble. Performers also include Xak Bjerken, Teagan Faran, Alexandra Jones, Ariel Mo, Guillaume Pirard, Leo Sussman, Asher Wulfman, and Miri Yampolsky.
Rachel will join her Ithaca College colleagues for a Faculty Showcase as part of this year’s Voice Intensive: Arts and Empowerment. She and Choral Director Khyle Wooten will perform excerpts from Lena J. McLin’s cycle Songs of Love.
Rachel joins Cornell University faculty and students for Operability: A Micro-Opera Project, a performance featuring newly composed works for voice and chamber ensemble created by Cornell composition students.
Saturday, January 31, 2026
Pre-concert Q&A with the composers: 2:00 p.m.
Performance: 3:00 p.m.
Flex Theater, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts
The program features premieres by Seare Farhat, Jasmine Morris, Eliot Burk, Coral Douglas, and Michael Li, with performances by soprano Rachel Schutz and baritone Steven Stull, conducted by Gabriela S. Gómez Estévez .
Rachel joins the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra as the soprano soloist for their holiday performance of Handel’s iconic Messaih.
Rachel will join notated Pipa player and composer Yang Jing for an evening of music for voice, pipa, and piano. She will premiere arias from Yang’s new opera Katharina, as well as reprising Thomas Osborne’s Rumi Songs.
Rachel will join IC’s Treble Chorale, string faculty, dance students, director Ben Robinson (Opera Ithaca) and others to give the world premiere of Sally McCune’s dramatic cantata Stella Maris, Stella Caeli, Stella Paradisaea. The piece is a 30-minute semi-staged work with text by Orkney poet Yvonne Gray that celebrates the Arctic tern, an adept but now threatened survivor in a changing world. The production will feature dance, projections, and voile props. Not to be missed!
Rachel joins the Cornell Chorus, Glee Club and Symphony Orchestra as the soprano soloist for Dvořak’s stunning Te Deum.
Rachel will present on Welsh art song for the Maryland-DC regional meeting of the National Association of Teachers of Singing.
The Ithaca College Wind Ensemble presents a cutting edge program of genre-breaking works that explore human connectivity. The thought provoking repertoire investigates what binds us together, what tears us apart, and how we relate to each other and the world. Featured on this program is the Beeler Prize award winning composition "Passages" by Will Healy, with soprano Rachel Schutz, saxophonist Mike Titlebaum, and emcee hip-hop rappers spiritchild and G-Quan Booker.
Rachel will join the Ithaca College orchestra and choir for a performance of Mozart’s iconic Requiem.
Rachel will be joined by pianist Andrea Christie for an evening of art song that delves into its great poetry. The centerpiece of the evening is the world premier of Jeff Myer’s Poe Songs which he wrote specifically for Rachel and Andrea. They’ll pair this with Mansel Thomas’s Five Settings of Poems by Idris Lewis, Harry T. Burleigh’s Five Songs of Laurence Hope, and Margaret Bonds’s Songs of the Season.
Rachel joins Sholto Kynoch (of Oxford International Song) as well as Erika Switzer (Sparks and Wiry Cries), and IC students and faculty for an evening celebrating art song. Rachel and Sholto will perform three Welsh art songs: “Gweddi y Pechadur” (Morfydd Owen), Nos o Hat (Dilys Elwyn-Edwards) and Mai (Meirion Williams).
Rachel and pianist extraordinaire Xak Bjerken will perform a set of Ives songs on this celebration concert. Gil Kalish will also perform Ives’s iconic 1st Piano Sonata. Not to be missed!
Rachel will teach participants at the North American Festival of Wales how to accurately pronounce Welsh and to apply it to their hymn singing.
Check out the full listing of events here.
Baritone Jeffrey Williams and I will be presenting a lecture at the 2024 NATS National Conference in Knoxville on Welsh art song and diction. Don’t miss this fantastic introduction complete with performances!
Rachel joins the Ithaca Community Chorus again for a performance of Kolday’s little performed Te Deum.
Rachel will join Cornell’s Ensemble X, Jean Bernard Cerin, and Elizabeth Ogonek for excerpts of Saariajo’s Tempest Songbook in honor of her recent death.
Rachel returns to Long Island to perform on the concert series Le Petit Salon de Musique. She’ll be joined by Andrea Christie on piano and the two will perform a recital focused on the many ways that people’s voices and artistic expressions can be inhibited, excluded, muted, and restricted.
The first half of the program features songs by two female Welsh composers – Morfydd Owen and Grace Williams – almost completely unknown outside of Wales. Despite the high quality of their work, their songs have not made it into the main-stream canon of British music, in part due to still-existing cultural prejudices within the UK. The second half of the program explores other methods of suppression: racism, incarceration, and conflict. Until recently and certainly during their lifetimes, African American composers such as Margaret Bonds did not receive the recognition or performance opportunities that they deserved within the US music industry due to longstanding racism and exclusion. Ethnicity, paired with religion, is also the reason that Abduquadir Jalalidin, a well-known Uyghur poet, is being held in captivity in China. This poem escaped its confinement through oral transmission from prisoner to prisoner, eventually being translated into English by Joshua Freeman and set to music by Thomas Osborne. But countless other works of art and their artists remain trapped. And though he lived for many years after completing his Op. 38 songs, Sergei Rachmaninoff, who was forced to flee his native Russia during the Revolution of 1917, never wrote another song. What had been a prolific career in composition was silenced by his displacement and emigration. If these artists’ voices had been allowed to fully flourish and their works fully welcomed into our canon, our artistic landscape may be even richer.
Rachel will make her debut with the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes on their holiday concert. She’ll join the orchestra for Mozart’s Laudate Dominum and experts from his Exultate Jubilate. Don’t miss other holiday favorites and a sing along!
Rachel will be playing the role of the iconic Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Opera Ithaca’s production of Scalia/Ginsburg by Derrick Wang. Join us for an irreverent romp around the opinions and philosophies of these two unlikely friends.
Rachel will be playing the role of the iconic Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Opera Ithaca’s production of Scalia/Ginsburg by Derrick Wang. Join us for an irreverent romp around the opinions and philosophies of these two unlikely friends.
Rachel will join the artistic team at Glimmeerglass opera, as they workshop a brand new opera “The Rip Van Winkles.” Over the course of two days, the cast will rehearse and record this new work in preparation for its debut next season. Music by Ben Morris and libretto by Lauren Fuentes.
Rachel will join Cornell’s Xak Bjerken for a performance of Rachmaninoff’s Op. 38 songs at the A.D. White House Salon Series, sponsored by Cornell’s Center for Historical Keyboards. The intimate chamber music space has limited seating, so get your tickets early!
