Sunday, November 16, 2025 | Ganz Hall, Roosevelt University

2:00pm

Departure

Each season, ASC presents a series of intimate Lieder Lounge performances, highlighting some of the most exciting artistic champions of art song. These recitals often focus on a theme, set of composers, or ideas the artists want to explore on an intimate recital stage.

In a sweeping program centered around the beauty found walking in nature, countertenor Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen brings his “ravishing, otherworldly” (Opera News) tone to a wide range of repertoire never before sung by a countertenor.

For this recital, Cohen partners with pianist John Churchwell, Head of Music for the San Francisco Opera and co-director of Music Academy of the West’s Vocal Institute. The program includes the rarely performed Songs of Farewell by Erich Korngold, Robert Schumann’s Liederkreis op. 39, works from Nussbaum Cohen’s Jewish heritage, songs by Black American composers H. Leslie Adams and Florence Price, and a new work composed for this program by leading American composer, Jake Heggie.

Headshot of Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, countertenor

Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen

countertenor

Headshot of John Churchwell, piano

John Churchwell

piano