Sospeso performs a concert portrait of French composer Pierre Boulez on May 10, 2005 with soprano Susan Narucki.

Susan Narucki, the internationally renowned soprano, has recently sung the Lincoln Center premiere of Richard Einhorn’s passionate Joan of Arc composition, Voices of Light, with Marin Alsop’s Concordia at Avery Fisher Hall. Following the sold-out performance of the multi-media presentation, Miss Narucki appeared with the San Francisco Symphony in performances of Les Noces conducted by Michael Tilson-Thomas, which opened their Stravinsky Festival. A few nights later the soprano performed Aaron Kernis’ Simple Songs (a work that was written for her in 1991) as part of the annual San Francisco Symphony Mavericks Concert, which also included such guest artists as the Kronos Quartet and Meredith Monk. Joshua Kosman of the San Francisco Chronicle remarked that “Kernis’ Simple Songs delivered with extraordinary presence by soprano Susan Narucki and the members of the Symphony, under the composer’s guidance, emerged as the evening’s most arresting element… Is it a sin for music to be this rapturously beautiful?”

Recently, Miss Narucki participated in the creation of Rêves d'un Marco Polo, a Pierre Audi production which features the music of Claude Vivier, at the Holland Festival in June. She then returned to New York for Lincoln Center Festival performances of Writing to Vermeer by Louis Andriessen and director Peter Greenaway, which she premiered at the Netherlands Opera the previous winter. Concert appearances for the soprano include an all-American program with pianist Peter Lockwood at the Grachtenfestival 2000 Amsterdam, and a performance of her MacDowell Colony recital project at the writer's colony in New Hampshire. The MacDowell recital program will be recorded with pianist, Alan Feinberg and narrator, Cynthia Rhys for Americus Records this summer.