Baritone Richard Lalli is a graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy, the Oberlin Conservatory, and the Yale School of Music. As a singer, he has given solo recitals at London’s Wigmore Hall, the Spoleto Festival U.S.A., the National Gallery in Washington, Merkin Hall in New York, and the Salle Cortot in Paris and has premiered works by such composers as Yehudi Wyner, Richard Wilson, and Ricky Ian Gordon. With pianist Gary Chapman, Lalli has performed popular songs in New York at the Carlyle, the Park Plaza, and the Whitney Museum. As a pianist, he has participated internationally in chamber music programs with the Mirror Visions Ensemble. Lalli is an associate professor of music at Yale, where he has taught since 1982. He conducts the Yale Collegium Musicum, an ensemble devoted to early music that was established by Paul Hindemith in the 1940s.
