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 Gwendolyn Lytle
Professor of Music and Resident Artist
Thatcher 214,
(909) 607-2453,
gwendolyn.lytle@pomona.edu
Expertise Profile
A native New
Yorker, Ms. Lytle is presently on the faculty at Pomona
College as Associate Professor of Music and Resident
Artist. A graduate of Hunter College, she went on to
receive a Master of Music at the New England Conservatory
of Music in Boston.
Ms. Lytle began her musical studies with her father, who
was a church organist for 30 years. She began performing
with her sisters in a singing group when she was nine
years old and at the age of fourteen, began solo
performances in music of Black American composers, mostly
sacred.
She has continued this interest in American music,
sub-specialty Black American composers to the present day.
Her performances include recitals at: the Gardner Museum,
Boston, MA; University of California campuses at Berkeley,
Irvine, San Diego and Riverside; and the Goethe Institute
in San Francisco. She has performed also in Bermuda and
Hawaii. She has been soloist with the Long Beach Symphony,
the Oakland Symphony, the William Hall Chorale and the
Classical Music Seminar Orchestra in Eisenstadt, Austria.
Since 1993, she has participated as a soloist with the
Classical Music Seminar Orchestra in performances of
Beethoven's Missa Solemnis and the Ninth Symphony, Haydn's
Harmoniemesse, Theresienmesse, and Paukenmesse, and
Mozart's Requiem in Eisenstadt and Vienna, Austria and
Kösweg, Hungary under the direction of Dr. Don V Moses.
Gwendolyn and her brother Cecil recently collaborated in a
series of concerts devoted to the music of George
Gershwin, which produced a PBS broadcast of the concert
which has been shown on many public stations across the
United States. Her most recent recitals have been devoted
to settings of Emily Dickinson and Langston Hughes poems
by American composers. Her future repertoire plans include
further exploration of vocal chamber music for voice and
various instruments by American composers.
Her operatic experience includes performances in the
following roles and operas: Cleopatra, Giulio Cesare,
Handel; Countess, The Marriage of Figaro, Mozart; the
Little Cook, The Nightingale, Stravinskly; Ernestina, The
Luggage Mix-Up, Rossini; Fiordiligi, Così fan tutte,
Mozart; Second Lady, Dido and Aeneas, Purcell; and Lucy,
Treemonisha, Joplin. |
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