"A Dream Deferred: Langston Hughes in Song"
Julia Bullock, soprano
Dejah Watts, soprano
Shikta Mukherjee, soprano
Christopher Gray, baritone
Lyndsi Maus, piano
Fiona Shea, violin
Eliza Reimold, clarinet
As the 2026/27 Aleko Endowed Artist, GRAMMY®-winning American classical singer Julia Bullock curates and performs a special recital alongside select Shepherd School students. The performance weaves together song, instrumental chamber music, and spoken poetry centered on the writing of Langston Hughes and celebrating the rich legacy of the Harlem Renaissance.
The Aleko Endowed Artist Series brings leading artists and teachers to campus to work with students.
Repertoire
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Artists
GRAMMY®-winning American classical singer Julia Bullock combines versatile artistry with a probing intellect and commanding stage presence. As well as headlining productions and concerts at preeminent arts institutions around the world, she has held positions as Artist-in-Residence of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Berkeley’s Cal Performances, and the San Francisco Symphony. A prominent voice of social consciousness and activism, she is “a singer of enveloping tone, startlingly mature presence and unusually sophisticated insight into culture, society and history” (The New York Times).
