2020 Winner of the Kennedy Center's prestigious Marian Anderson Award, Will Liverman has been called "a voice for this historic moment by "The Washington Post." Having just received acclaim for opening the 2021-2022 Metropolitan Opera season in the lead role of Terence Blanchard's "Fire Shut Up in My Bones," he will reprise the role later this season with Lyric Opera of Chicago. His other upcoming engagements include a return to the Met as Papageno in Mozart's "The Magic Flute," and concert and recital appearances with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Park Avenue Armory Recital Series, and the Chicago Sinfonietta. His program with pianist Myra Huang includes the premiere of a newly commissioned work, "The Long Year" by Michael Ippolito, based on poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay. "The program also features selections by Richard Strauss and Howard Swanson as well as Maurice Ravel's cycle Don Quichotte a Dulcinée.