Esther Heideman

Esther Heideman will be returning to perform the soprano solos at Masterwork's upcoming Messiah performances on 12/16 at Randolph High School and 12/21 at Carnegie Hall . Details and tickets are available at masterwork.org. We are thrilled to make music with Esther again! Learn more about Esther at https://estherheideman.com/

“Angelic” has often been used to describe the silvery, pure, sweet tone of Esther Heideman’s voice. In 2000, she won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and the Lucia Albanese competition. In 2001, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut singing Pamina in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. When not performing, Ms. Heideman enjoys teaching lessons and master classes and sharing her knowledge and experience with young performers

I’m so humbled and honored to be one of three women featured in The Local Scoop magazine in VA. Check out page 55, to read more on The women of wellness!

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I’m honored to be back with Lincoln’s Symphony Orchestra for this mammoth undertaking of Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony. It features a choir of almost 250 people, the fantastic Orchestra, Maestro Edward Polochick, and Mezzo Susan Platts. You still have a few hours to buy tickets, but don’t delay- you do not want to miss this!!!

I am SO excited to announce that I will be opening Lincoln Symphony Orchestra's 2023-24 season with Maestro Edward Polochick, performing Mahler's 2nd Symphony on September 15, 2023.

This piece is deeply personal for me. It is a personal reminder of 9/11. I performed this piece in Minneapolis on the 1 month anniversary of that horrific day, in Syracuse on the 6 month anniversary, (the lights went out, and only a red flashing emergency light was visible from the stage during the performance), and in Pittsburgh on the 1 year anniversary, as well as numerous times since in different locations. This piece is a reminder to make the most of every day.

I was cleaning out folders in my office today and ran across one of my favorite poems (copied below). I thought about all the RISKS I have taken in my career and life, and how blessed I have been because of it, even when things didn't turn out the way I expected them to.

“No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a q***r, divine dissastifaction: a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.”
― Martha Graham

RISK

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool
to weep is to risk appearing sentimental
to reach out for another is to risk involvement
To expose feeling is to risk exposing your true self
to place your ideas, your dreams, before the crowd is to risk their loss,
to love is to risk not being loved in return
to live is to risk dying
to hope is to risk despair
to try is to risk failure.

But risk must be taken, as the greatest hazard
in life that is to risk nothing. The person who
risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing,
and is nothing.

He may avoid suffering and sorrow
but he simply cannot learn, feel change,
grow, love and live.

Chained by his attitudes, he is a slave,
he has forfeited freedom.

Only a person who risks...is free.

I’m honored to be back as a soloist with the National Philharmonic this weekend at Strathmore. Only 2 days left until the Bach B minor mass on Saturday. Buy your tickets now!!!

https://fb.watch/jjAt8PtuDH/

Maestro Piotr Gajewski and the NatPhil Chorale enliven Bach's transcendent Mass in B Minor in this unforgettable performance.

THE MUSIC PERSISTS
The heart of the artist hears
the spirits of common folk
as they struggle,
Sees the light within flicker
against fear fed hardness.
Let us share the connection
that the music gives us freely,
Binding together the vision
of HOPE for which we strive
Let us dance to a tune
whose resilience builds
in each of us
the tomorrows we need.

A poem from "Music and Mountains" by Lee Marsh

Look who I saw at the Kennedy center. Ha.

Please buy your tickets soon, before they are gone!!!

More sad news from the world of music. Will this ever end??? Only the rich/famous artists are going to survive this, but all the others are suffering.

It’s hard to save for a rainy day or “pull yourself up by the boot straps” when we have never experienced anything like this before, and our boots have been washed away in the mudslide/tsunami of life.

The Metropolitan Opera Won’t Reopen for Another Year The nation’s largest performing arts organization, shut by the coronavirus pandemic, sends a chilling signal that American cultural life is still far from resuming.

Lonely House Just a little tune that expresses how we are all feeling during this Coronavirus scare.