Sisco’s album Infrastructure debuted on Friday, June 12 with a wonderful write-up in Presto Music (read corresponding image). Click here to read the full article. The album is now available at Apple Music, Spotify, and Amazon.

I am very pleased to invite you to the premiere of my new choral work, “Soul Song,” written with L Morgan Lee based on interviews with members of the choir. I have known conductor Dr. Felix Graham and TRANScend for years and am so excited to celebrate them at their concert on Saturday, June 13 at 7 PM, 15th Street Meeting House (East Village). For more information and tickets, click here.

David’s new album Infrastructure: The Songs of David Sisco is now available for pre-order through Apple Music. The album features over 25 years of his work as an art song composer and includes performances by David Fung (piano), Michael Kelly (baritone), Elizabeth Mondragon (mezzo-soprano), Laura Strickling (soprano), and David himself (baritone). Watch music videos and “Behind the Music” videos from the recording process here. The album drops on Friday, June 12.

I am thrilled to have Laura Strickling and Daniel Schlosberg premiere my song cycle “The Wrong Kind of Fountain Enthusiast” at their 40@40 Concert in Chicago on Saturday, May 9 at 7:30 PM at The CheckOut. I wrote the cycle for Laura Strickling, which features texts from online reviews (we chose them together). The cycle will also be featured on my forthcoming Album, Infrastructure: The Songs of David Sisco, releasing on June 12, 2026. I’ll be in attendance—come say hi!

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Lyric Fest—a fantastic Philadelphia-based art song series—will celebrate the life and work of Benjamin Franklin with a concert at the American Philosophical Society (Franklin Hall) on Friday, April 10 at 7:30 PM. Included will be premieres of commissioned works by Jennifer Higdon, Melissa Dunphy, and Benjamin Perry Wenzelberg. I’m honored to have my setting of Franklin’s epitaph (which he penned himself) on the program.

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Check out David’s newly released EP: Spring Awakening: Etudes for Cello & Piano. This recording features eight of 19 etudes he wrote as incidental music for a production of the play Spring Awakening (1906), directed by Kevin Connell at Marymount Manhattan College in 2015. Cellist Mairi Dorman-Phaneuf and David play on the album, which was produced by David and Kevin, and engineered by Doug Oberhamer. You can listen to samples of the EP by clicking here.

This week, David and his collaborator Michael Kelly will enjoy a private reading of their music-theatre piece, The Siren of the Drunken Boat. This piece tells the story of Paul Verlaine’s illicit affair with young poet Arthur Rimbaud by weaving together Gabriel Fauré’s La bonne chanson—settings of Verlaine’s poetry for his soon-to-be wife, Mathilde—with 10 original songs about his tumultuous relationship with Rimbaud. The piece will be performed by Michael, Grammy Award-winner Karim Sulayman, and pianist Laura Ward.

David will be releasing a new album of his music entitled “Infrastructure: The Songs of David Sisco” through Métier, under the Divine Arts Recordings label. The album will feature his compositions—written over the last 25 years—with performances by pianist David Fung, soprano Laura Strickling, mezzo Elizabeth Mondragon, and baritone Michael Kelly. Sisco is also represented on the album as a singer. The album was produced at Oktaven Audio and will be released in June, 2026.

David is thrilled to be back with a second season of Wholehearted Voice Pedagogy Podcast, an extension of his book of the same title, published by Routledge Press this past July. Episodes are released twice a month and can be found here, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Read Dr. Brian Manternach’s review of Wholehearted Voice Pedagogy in the December issue of Classical Singer, here.