Lydia Saylor
Lydia Saylor is a soprano born and raised in NYC with a love for early and contemporary music, and standard repertoire. Operatic roles include Gretel (Humperdinck Hänsel und Gretel), Morgana (Handel Alcina), Hypsipyle (Cavalli Il Giasone), and Spring and Fairy (Purcell Fairy Queen). As a soloist with orchestra she has performed Bach St. John Passion, Bach Cantata 51 (Jauchzet Gott), Copland Eight Poems of Emily Dickinson, Fauré Requiem, Mendelssohn Elijah, Vaughan Williams Magnificat, and A Festival of Psalms by Kerensa and David Briggs (world premiere). Lydia also loves working with living composers and has workshopped and premiered works by Evelyn Saylor, Bruce Saylor, Luna Composition Lab alumni, and the student composers at the Copland School of Music, where she completed her Master’s Degree.