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A Performance Guide to the Songs of Jean Sibelius by Kathleen Roland-Silverstein is a first-of-its-kind resource created specifically for English-speaking performers and teachers, containing a wealth of information about this composer’s unique and beautiful songs, many of which have been unjustly neglected. These songs demonstrate a genre of art song very different from the lieder and mélodies of Sibelius’s contemporaries. The book is designed to support performers seeking to add these works to their repertoire, including the standard three-line translations (original text, word-for-word English and phonetic translations), poetic translations and guides to lyric diction (in Finland-Swedish and in Finnish). A companion website for the performance guide includes beautiful audio readings of the Swedish and Finnish poetry for all the songs, made by the violinist Frida Backman and singer and teacher Margareta Brandt: www.oup.com/us/performanceguidetosibelius.
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Kathleen Roland-Silverstein teaches voice, vocal literature and voice pedagogy at the Setnor School of Music, Syracuse University. She is author of Romanser: 25 Swedish Songs with Guide to Lyric Diction (Gehrmans Musikförlag, 2013) and associate editor for the NATS Journal of Singing. She is a highly regarded scholar and concert soloist, known for her performance of contemporary art music, and her contribution to Scandinavian song scholarship. She has sung in Germany, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Cambodia, Vietnam and throughout the United States. She is a Fulbright scholar, an American Scandinavian Foundation fellow and a recipient of a Finlandia Foundation grant.
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