The Church will host the inaugural Sag Harbor Song Festival. Philanthropist, entrepreneur, music lover, and East Hampton resident Lena Kaplan, founded the festival, which began as a longing to hear live song again after the pandemic kept the world deprived. About a year ago, Lena approached long-time friends, artists, and Co-Founders April Gornik and Eric Fischl to host the festival in the beautiful and intimate space of The Church. The two eagerly agreed and with a venue in place, Lena formed a team consisting of Artistic Director Brad Woolbright (formerly of Santa Fe Opera) and Musical Director Robert Tweten (currently of Santa Fe Opera and New England Conservatory) to organize the musical programming.
The festival will span the course of three evenings and a matinee performance, promising a world class experience of music. The four concerts will consist of a mixture of operatic repertory, musical theatre, songs, and lieder covering a musical panorama and highlighting the talent of six rising stars of immense promise. These singers have appeared on the stages of the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, the Aix-en-Provence Festival, the Bayerische Opera, Staatstheater Stuttgart, and in venues from the White House to St. Patrick’s Cathedral.
