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Constance Hauman – THE QUARANTINE TRILOGY

JUNE 17, 2020 | by BT Fasmer

Constance Hauman recently released a digital EP entitled The Quarantine Triology. The recording includes four tracks, three of which were written in March 2020 prior to the lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic in New York, NY. The recording marks Hauman’s first foray as a solo pianist and her first release of purely instrumental music.

The recording features Hauman (piano), with contributions from the celebrated jazz virtuosi, Ross Pederson (percussion, synthesizers) and Julia Adamy (bass).

One of the most versatile performing artists on today’s contemporary music scene, Hauman’s rich imagination continually leads her to new realms of self-expression and artistic creation. In The Quarantine Trilogy she articulates her personal experience of the most disruptive, isolating, yet communally shared event of our time.

Following two highly acclaimed solo vocal albums – created with co-producer Ross Pederson – singer/ songwriter Constance Hauman leaves the vocals behind on The Quarantine Trilogy and channels her voice into the piano. The tracks Panacea, Total Lockdown and Apollo are real-time improvisations between Hauman and Pederson. They were recorded at Isotopia Studios on the eve of New York City’s lockdown resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic. As social distancing regulations interrupted their recording sessions, they decided to leave the three tracks in their improvised states with the exception of Apollo for which Pederson and Julia Adamy remotely added drums and bass.

Spirit is an improvisation created by Hauman and Pederson on 13th January 2017, three days after Barak Obama’s Farewell Address. What began as an improvisation between strings and piano, became a moving tribute to President Obama’s legacy. Pederson asked Hauman if she wanted to add vocals or lyrics. Looking out the window at the full moon, Hauman said ‘There is only one voice I want to hear right now.’ They took phrases from Obama’s speech and added them to the track. Since Spirit’s release on Soundcloud in 2017, the track has received over 85,000 streams internationally. Hauman comments on the inclusion of Spirit on this recording, ‘Given the uncanny and unsettling timing of this catastrophic pandemic and with the virulent and divisive political climate of this election year, it seemed fitting to add Spirit to The Quarantine Trilogy’.

(LINK TO ARTICLE & MUSIC SAMPLES HERE…)

 

Isotopia Records to Release Constance Hauman’s THE QUARANTINE TRILOGY

MAY 13, 2020

On Friday 29th May 2020 Isotopia Records (www.isotopiarecords.com) will release a digital EP entitled The Quarantine Triology, a recording of instrumental works written and performed by Constance Hauman during the Covid-19 pandemic in New York. The recording includes four tracks, three of which were written in March 2020 prior to the lockdown. The recording marks Hauman’s first foray as a solo pianist and her first release of purely instrumental music. The recording features Hauman (piano), with contributions from the celebrated jazz virtuosi, Ross Pederson (percussion, synthesizers) and Julia Adamy (bass).

One of the most versatile performing artists on today’s contemporary music scene, Hauman’s rich imagination continually leads her to new realms of self-expression and artistic creation. In The Quarantine Trilogy she articulates her personal experience of the most disruptive, isolating, yet communally shared event of our time.

Following two highly acclaimed solo vocal albums, created with co-producer Ross Pederson, singer/songwriter Constance Hauman leaves the vocals behind on The Quarantine Trilogy and channels her voice into the piano. The tracks Panacea, Total Lockdown and Apollo are real-time improvisations between Hauman and Pederson. They were recorded at Isotopia Studios on the eve of New York City’s lockdown resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic. As social distancing regulations interrupted their recording sessions, they decided to leave the three tracks in their improvised states with the exception of Apollo for which Pederson and Julia Adamy remotely added drums and bass.

Spirit is an improvisation created by Hauman and Pederson on 13th January 2017, three days after Barak Obama’s Farewell Address. What began as an improvisation between strings and piano, became a moving tribute to President Obama’s legacy. Pederson asked Hauman if she wanted to add vocals or lyrics. Looking out the window at the full moon, Hauman said ‘There is only one voice I want to hear right now.’ They took phrases from Obama’s speech and added them to the track. Since Spirit‘s release on Soundcloud in 2017, the track has received over 85,000 streams internationally. Hauman comments on the inclusion of Spirit on this recording, ‘Given the uncanny and unsettling timing of this catastrophic pandemic and with the virulent and divisive political climate of this election year, it seemed fitting to add Spirit to The Quarantine Trilogy‘.

The Quarantine Trilogy will be distributed digitally by Naxos and available on all major streaming and download platforms including, Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, Soundcloud, Deezer, etc.

New York based Isotopia Records specializes in a diversity styles of popular and art music. Releases from 2019 include High Tides by Constance Hauman, Feed The Wolf by Miss Velvet & The Blue Wolf (featuring George Clinton) and Solitude by Lemoyne Alexander. Isotopia is a partner label of Dublin-based Heresy Records (www.heresyrecords.com).

 

Isotopia Records to Release THE QUARANTINE TRILOGY Written and Performed by Constance Hauman During the Pandemic

MAY 13, 2020

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Constance Hauman and the Costumes of Orlando

Rei Kawakubo’s designs play a pivotal role in bringing female issues to a new production of “Orlando”
by Suzy Menkes

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The applause rang out, as a torrent of figures swept forward – a long, colourful line of women (or were they men?) on stage at the Vienna State Opera.

Here were figures covered in bold pouf dresses, from the scarlet grandeur of Queen Elizabeth I and her pretty pageboy to men dressed as women – or the other way around – for the 142 costumes.

(READ THE FULL STORY with EXQUISITE PHOTOS HERE…)

Artist Of The Week: Constance Hauman

American Soprano Makes Wiener Staatsoper Debut In World Premiere
by Francisco Salazar

DECEMBER 2, 2019

On Dec. 8, 2019 the Wiener Staatsoper will make history performing “Orlando.” The work was composed by Olga Neuwirth, the first woman to be commissioned to compose an opera for the theater in over 150 years. Based on Virginia Woolf’s novel of the same name, the work will feature an international cast including celebrated American soprano, Constance Hauman.

Hauman will make her Wiener Staatsoper debut and will create three roles including Queen Elizabeth I, Purity, and Friend of Orlando’s Child in the new opera. The new work will continue Hauman and Neuwirth’s collaboration as the two first worked together in Austria on “Lost Highway,” the composer’s 2003 opera adaptation of the 1997 David Lynch film of the same name. For “Orlando,” Neuwirth handpicked the roles that Hauman would sing, fortifying their collaboration.

Hauman was a protégé of Leonard Bernstein and has since performed over 2,000 times with such prestigious opera companies and orchestras as the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Welsh National Opera, English National Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Spoletto and Santa Fe USA Festivals, Opera National de Paris, Berlin Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, London Symphony, and the London Philharmonic. Aside from her work as an opera singer, she has also sung rock music and is the band leader and songwriter of the rock band Miss Velvet & The Blue Wolf.

Recording
For those not familiar with Hauman’s voice, the soprano has a recording of Berg’s “Lulu” on Chandos Records as well as two critically acclaimed albums “High Tides,” which was released earlier this year and “Falling Into Now” her solo album. She also has “Feed the Wolf” with her band Miss Velvet & The Blue Wolf.

Soprano Constance Hauman To Make Dec 2019 Vienna State Opera Debut in New Olga Neuwirth Opera, Orlando

AUGUST 22, 2019

On 8th December 2019, internationally celebrated American soprano, Constance Hauman, will make her Vienna State Opera debut. She will perform three roles (Queen Elizabeth I, Purity, Friend of Orlando’s Child) in the cast of Orlando, a new opera by Austrian composer, Olga Neuwirth. Neuwirth is first woman to be commissioned to compose an opera for the Vienna State Opera in over 150 years.

Orlando is based on the novel by Virginia Woolf, published in October 1928. Costumes for the production will be designed by the legendary Japanese fashion designer, Rei Kawakubo for ‘Comme des Garçons.’ Runway magazine says about Orlando: “The idea is formidable: three great artistic women’s imaginations—Virginia Woolf, Olga Neuwirth, Rei Kawakubo—converging on the idea of conveying a character’s journey from one gender to the other.”

Neuwirth personally chose Hauman for the ensemble cast of Orlando. The two had worked together on Lost Highway, the composer’s 2003 opera adaptation of the 1997 David Lynch film of the same name, with a libretto by 2004 Nobel Prize-winner, Elfriede Jelink.

Constance Hauman was a protégé of Leonard Bernstein, hand-picked by him for Candide. She has sung over 2,000 performance of opera and hundreds of concerts with such companies and orchestras as Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Welsh National Opera, English National Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Opera National de Paris, Berlin Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, London Symphony and the London Philharmonia. She made headlines across Europe in the title role in Alban Berg’s Lulu, recorded live by Chandos.

Hauman is equally at home in the world of indie rock, both as a singer-songwriter and as band leader and songwriter for Miss Velvet & The Blue Wolf, a New York-based rock/funk group that is currently on worldwide tour, opening for George Clinton’s Parliament-Funkadelic. Hauman has released two critically acclaimed albums of her own songs, High Tides (2019) on the Isotopia label and Falling Into Now (2015). The Guardian sited Falling Into Now as one of the top 10 pop albums of 2015.

Constance Hauman is also the creator, writer, producer and performer of Exiles in Paradise, a documentary film/live performance recital with string quartet which spans the history, lives and Hollywood stories of Eastern Europe’s exiled composers from 1932–1949 in Los Angeles. Exiles was chosen to open the Jewish Museum in Berlin.

Constance Hauman – High Tides (review)

AUGUST 8, 2019

SINGER-SONGWRITER CONSTANCE HAUMAN’S latest album isn’t operatic. Instead, the classically trained soprano employs her spot-on intonation and clear, enunciated phrases in service of highly produced avant-pop songs—like a more colloquial, digitized song cycle…

Hauman is undeniably a strong singer, producing sonorous timbres with an earnest and endearing delivery.

…her winning interpretation of Francis Poulenc’s “Les Chemins de l’Amour.” The dreamlike instrumental textures provide a new context for the twentieth-century master’s alluring melody. Another inspired cover comes from an unlikely source—the alternative rock band Foo Fighters. “Everlong” is arguably the most iconic of the band’s songs, and Hauman’s vocal-centric take on the late-’90s hit frees Dave Grohl’s lyrics from underneath the original’s distorted grunge guitars and heavy backbeat. Unobscured by rock instrumentation, the innate beauty of the vocal phrases comes to the forefront, spearheaded by Hauman’s almost mournful tone.

…“Run Sister,” a midtempo, synth-driven song that enables the simple melody to float effortlessly above the dense fray of filtered keyboard sounds before morphing into an urgent dance track. Throughout the record, but especially on “Love Burns,” the vocals contain dramatic hints of musical theater. This quality gives the music a conversational immediacy that keeps the songs from drifting into digital detachment.

…although this art-pop collection’s soundscape is dominated by ambient layers of electronic filigree, the steady rhythmic thumps and stutter-step syncopations root the songs in a tactile sensibility. One of the most effective tracks is “Painful Strangers,” co-written by Hauman and Pederson. The song oscillates between arhythmic airiness and a sensual slow jam, as Hauman’s smooth, azure tone imbues an otherwise bittersweet song about fleeting romantic connection with tranquility.

With High Tides, Constance Hauman ran the risk of following in the footsteps of Renée Fleming on her indie rock-crossover album Dark Hope. Fleming’s voice seemed unnaturally boxed in by the pop-music production and the songs’ lower tessituras. More often than not, Hauman transitions more seamlessly from the classical to the colloquial—in the model of composer–singer Shara Nova of My Brightest Diamond, or contemporary classical specialist Mellissa Hughes on composer Jacob Cooper’s album Silver Threads.

…High Tides is a solid offering that gains steam with each successive listen. — Daniel J. Kushner

 

Internationally Renown American Opera soprano Constance Hauman Makes Vienna State Opera Debut in World Premiere of ‘Orlando’ by Olga Neuwirth

MAY 21, 2019

The American singer, pianist, songwriter, copywriter and producer Constance Hauman is recognized in the world of indie rock as well as classical music. Hauman, one of Leonard Bernstein’s favorite interpreters, has sung over 2,000 opera performances and countless concerts at the following venues: Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Welsh National Opera, English National Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Opera National de Paris, Berlin Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, London Symphony and the London Philharmonia. She wrote, played and directed the one-man show “Exiles in Paradise,” which caused a sensation at 92nd Street Y in New York, Schönberg Hall in Los Angeles, and the Jewish Museum in Berlin. The Wall Street Journal wrote about the artist: “Constance Hauman’s bright, versatile coloratura soprano made headlines throughout the European music scene as the sex goddess in Alban Berg’s Lulu. Her sparkling soprano can be heard in a live recording at Chandos, but now her performance song ‘Exiles in Paradise,’ which has been crafted with a meticulousness that deserves a doctoral degree, is performed with equally divine verve by her. Ms. Hauman interprets Friedrich Hollander’s melody of ‘Falling in Love Again’ with such a sensual brilliance and phrasing that is in no way inferior to Marlene.”

Olga Neuwirth’s music theater opens a door to the realm of simultaneity of experience, exquisite, heard, knowledge and feeling. Into the realm of fiction, built from memories.

“From childhood I was just interested in everything, art, politics, science, the psychology of the people. I am equally inspired by the wonderful diversity of life, the small and big things in the world. This reflects ORLANDO: For the essence of this fictional biography is the love of the strange, paradoxes, the grotesque, the artistry, exaggeration and exaggeration to create a new morphology of the narrative. It is also always about a sophisticated, highly sophisticated form of sexual attraction and against the constraints in the direction of a single sex. And not allowing yourself to be patronized and condescendingly treated, which will happen to women over and over again.”

 

Constance Hauman Makes Vienna State Opera Debut In World Premiere Of ORLANDO By Olga Neuwirth

MAY 21, 2019

The American singer, pianist, songwriter, copywriter and producer Constance Hauman is recognized in the world of indie rock as well as classical music. Hauman, one of Leonard Bernstein’s favorite interpreters, has sung over 2,000 opera performances and countless concerts at the following venues: Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Welsh National Opera, English National Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Opera National de Paris, Berlin Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, London Symphony and the London Philharmonia. She wrote, played and directed the one-man show “Exiles in Paradise,” which caused a sensation at 92nd Street Y in New York, Schönberg Hall in Los Angeles, and the Jewish Museum in Berlin. The Wall Street Journal wrote about the artist: “Constance Hauman’s bright, versatile coloratura soprano made headlines throughout the European music scene as the sex goddess in Alban Berg’s Lulu. Her sparkling soprano can be heard in a live recording at Chandos, but now her performance song ‘Exiles in Paradise,’ which has been crafted with a meticulousness that deserves a doctoral degree, is performed with equally divine verve by her. Ms. Hauman interprets Friedrich Hollander’s melody of ‘Falling in Love Again’ with such a sensual brilliance and phrasing that is in no way inferior to Marlene.”

Olga Neuwirth’s music theater opens a door to the realm of simultaneity of experience, exquisite, heard, knowledge and feeling. Into the realm of fiction, built from memories.

“From childhood I was just interested in everything, art, politics, science, the psychology of the people. I am equally inspired by the wonderful diversity of life, the small and big things in the world. This reflects ORLANDO: For the essence of this fictional biography is the love of the strange, paradoxes, the grotesque, the artistry, exaggeration and exaggeration to create a new morphology of the narrative. It is also always about a sophisticated, highly sophisticated form of sexual attraction and against the constraints in the direction of a single sex. And not allowing yourself to be patronized and condescendingly treated, which will happen to women over and over again.”

 

Constance Hauman – High Tides (review)

MARCH 11, 2019

“INSPIRED MUSIC THAT FLOODS THE LISTENER’S CONSCIOUSNESS”

“MAGNIFICENTLY DESIGNED and REMARKABLE SOUNDING SPECTACLE”

HIGH TIDES is another album by Constance Hauman for which the British Guardian should already have reserved a place as ONE OF THE TEN BEST POP ALBUMS OF THE YEAR.

…arranged in an electro-pop framework – her EXQUISITE rendition of the aria “Les Chemins de l’Amour” INSPIRES DEVOUT ADMIRATION

 

Constance Hauman – High Tides (review)

MARCH 11, 2019

ANOTHER ALL-ROUND HIT: FRAGILE YET INTENSE, TOUCHING, ROUSING, FULL OF DEPTH AND BLESSED WITH CLEAR HIT POTENTIAL

 

Constance Hauman – High Tides (review)

MARCH 11, 2019

Constance Hauman proves her BRILLIANT MASTERY of different genres in “HighTides” 10 tracks, once again revealing her EXTRAORDINARY CRAFTSMANSHIP AS A SONGWRITER … UNDENIABLE TALENT AND ASTOUNDING VERSATILITY AS A SINGER.

HAUMAN’S OWN HAUNTING LYRICS AND VOCALS POIGNANTLY COMMUNICATE INTENSE FEELINGS WHICH MOST OF US LACK THE WORDS TO EXPRESS

Demand pop with depth: the new album by Constance Hauman

JANUARY 22, 2019

Even without drifting too much into sensationalism: CONSTANCE HAUMAN is a true universal talent.

The lady works as a singer, actress, pianist, composer, copywriter and producer.

Her career has made her a permanent guest in international concert halls, theaters, cinemas and opera houses.

And as you know it from such multiband people, they often work for others before they think of themselves.

But when Constance puts herself in the spotlight, something very special comes out of it.

Be it as keyboardist and musical director of the immensely celebrated funk rock sensation Miss Velvet And The Blue Wolf (most recently on tour with George Clinton, a new album is already in the works) or as Queen Elizabeth I at the Vienna State Opera.

The lady has an impeccable reputation as a creative surprise bag.

Her solo debut Falling Into Now was voted one of the top ten pop albums of the year in 2015 by the British Guardian.

As you can see, pop, opera, funk … Ms Hauman feels comfortable in a variety of genres.

The new solo High Tides is a renewed all-round hit: Fragile yet intense, touching, rousing, full of depth and yet blessed with a light-footed hit potential.

CONSTANCE HAUMAN — High Tides
Isotopia Records / Naxos USA/Canada / Proper Music UK
Release: 25.01.2019

Constance Hauman is a singer, songwriter, arranger, keyboardist, music producer and creative director for Isotopia Studios and Records.

Her illustrious, longstanding career on the international operatic, classical concert and theatrical stages with the world’s best directors, composers and conductors has been the foundation for channeling and composing her unique genre-bending style.

This avant-garde opera heroine has collaborated in the pop/electronic world with Moby, Jimmy Harry and Empire of the Sun.

Constance Hauman’s solo album Falling Into Now on Isotopia Records was released worldwide October 30th, 2015, distributed by NAXOS NoA, NGL; It was released in the UK, Europe and Asia on December 2nd, 2015 and voted as one of the Best Albums of 2015 by acclaimed Pop Music Critic, Caroline Sullivan from The Guardian, UK. Purchase the Deluxe Gallery DiscBook Edition and/or Digital Media Files here. A deluxe version of Falling Into Now will be released on Spotify Oct. 8th, 2018 to coincide with the success of the album’s launch to non commercial radio.

Constance’s second solo album, High Tides, again with Ross Pederson, will be released on Isotopia/Heresy Records Jan. 25th, 2019.

THE REVIEWS ARE IN FOR FALLING INTO NOW!

The Best Albums Of 2015 – Constance Hauman, “Falling Into Now”
Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian

Constance Hauman is a hugely successful coloratura soprano who has crossed over into mainstream with the release of “Falling Into Now,” a collection of 15 songs rooted in alternative acts like Portishead and Cocteau Twins.

While the album contains its moments of theatrics they are tempered and experimental – think Bjork and highlights like “Sorry Eyes” could be a follow up to Massive Attack’s “Unfinished Sympathy.” A should-be shoe-in soundtrack for the “Twin Peaks” revival.
Towerload

And then you have Constance Hauman, one of America’s most versatile lyric coloratura sopranos, who has with “Falling into Now” written a cycle of personal songs that take us from despair to enlightenment. The songs trace a narrative line that is strengthened by music that effortlessly takes its cues from both Cocteau Twins and Michael Nyman.
Tony Clayton-Lea, The Irish Times (Ireland)

The idea of a world-renowned opera singer taking a run at an album consisting of an ambitious self-penned song-cycle about the ending of a passionate love affair seems like both artistic risk-taking on an epic level and something that makes simple good sense considering the nearly-always dark subject matter of most classic operas. American soprano Constance Hauman takes up the challenge on “Falling Into Now” and emerges triumphant.
Ron Nicholson, Scene Magazine (England)

A sophisticated and mature work… Hauman proves herself to be a musician of the first rank. Her voice is clear and flawless, but can also assume very somber timbres when needed and amazes the listener with numerous spontaneous transformations.
Oliver Fraenzke, The New Listener (Germany)

With every note the listener feels her connection with these songs… there is also an incorruptible cleanliness to her sound and an exceptional use of dynamic gradations that she uses to great emotional effect.
Oliver Fraenzke, The New Listener (Germany)

Hauman is expressive in music, lyrics and delivery… There is real pain communicated in some of these songs, but it is pain filtered not only through the organization of words and music but also through the vocal quality that Hauman brings to the material.
Infodad

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Angels, Constance Hauman’s single from Falling Into Now, was released on December 21st, 2014, and is available for download on iTunes, Amazon, Jango Radio, Spotify and CD Baby.

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