Eliza Bagg

BIOGRAPHY

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Eliza Bagg is an experimental vocalist and composer. She is known for her “ethereal” aesthetic (New York Times), “luminous sound” (New York Times) and “gossamer” singing (New Yorker), along with a unique performance and improvisational practice. Bagg has performed as a soloist around the globe, with a wide-ranging career that includes chamber music at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, motets by John Zorn at Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Meredith Monk’s Atlas with the LA Philharmonic, and premieres by Ted Hearne at Carnegie Hall and Chaya Czernowin at Walt Disney Concert Hall. She has sung lead roles in new operas with the Komische Oper Berlin, Philadelphia Opera, The Industry, and the Prototype Festival, and is a member of GRAMMY-winning vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth.

Bagg is a frequent guest soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and has sung as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, and North Carolina Symphony. She has collaborated closely with musicians and ensembles such as Nico Muhly, Pekka Kuusisto, Attacca String Quartet, Claire Chase, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Lorelei Ensemble, Nadia Sirota, Sofia Jernberg, Wild Up, and A Far Cry, among many others. Frequently developing and performing new work by composers like Ted Hearne, Ellen Reid, Angelica Négron, Caroline Shaw, Gabriel Kahane, and John Zorn, Bagg is a renowned collaborator and creative contributor.

Bagg’s compositional work integrates mainstream, contemporary aesthetics with classical languages, historical forms, and an avant-garde sensibility, often using pop production and electronic processing to explore the “valley between authenticity and artifice” (The Guardian). Dubbed an “electro-pop alien” by NPR, Bagg tours globally under the artist name Lisel and has released three solo albums, including the "chrome-tinted harmonies...[and] intricate latticeworks" (Bandcamp Daily) of her critically acclaimed piece Patterns For Auto-Tuned Voices And Delay. She has been in residence as a composer at Yaddo and Avaloch Farm, and has created new opera-theatre performances for REDCAT's New Original Works Festival and Wild Up’s Endless Season. She has performed her innovative work for processed voice at institutions such as Lincoln Center, Big Ears Festival, Birds of Paradise Festival, Musica Festival Strasbourg, De Doelen, Public Records, and the Bemis Center, among others.