Our Last Songs

Eapen Leubner, tenor
Mallory Bernstein, piano
Michael Bevers, production & engineering

Hello Art Song Friends,

In 2015, I created Denver Art Song Project as a side project with two purposes: to meet artists in Colorado and to collaborate with them to make art song performances. Since our inception, DASP has created three albums, over sixty music videos a web show and five seasons of live performances across the state. DASP achieved its mission and now we are at a natural end. This album reflects the end of this group. Why? Because we now perform across the state-- Denver seems a bit limiting. We now are moving to a 501c3 and growing our team- Project seems small for what we want to accomplish. This album is a reflection of who we are, artists who are challenging ourselves to make art song recordings. As we move forward as "Art Song Colorado", we are excited to share more of what we started here. Thank you for joining us on this journey that started with a single step.

We focused on music that fit the theme, "Three". This is our third album and we wanted to pull songs that were linked by composer, genre or set.

The new music is especially exciting. Emerson Eads is a young composer that I met while performing in Alaska. His piece "Let us Break Bread Together" speaks to my faith and my hopes for the world. Kevin Kelly was the very first composer to reach out to me to share his music. "Mask" has become a part of our "Shakespeare's Songs" performance. We performed the world premiere in 2016 and the song's recitative and aria style feels like a complete scene straight from "Julius Caesar."

Thank you for joining Denver Art Song Project and stay with us as we learn and grow as Art Song Colorado.