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Far Song
Kayleen and Paul Sánchez began making music together in 2009, and were married in 2010. As the duo Far Song, they specialize in new music, and have performed world premieres of works by composers including Graham Lynch, David M. Gordon, Shawn Okpebholo, and Paul Sánchez. They have been featured together on CD releases on the Albany Records, Innova Recordings, and Soundset Recordings labels.
"transcendental performances."
– Fanfare Magazine
"The premiere of my ‘Sappho Fragments’, given by Kayleen and Paul Sánchez, was one of the best first performances I’ve ever been fortunate enough to have. Not only was there a complete technical command of the music and fabulous attention to detail, but there was also a deep understanding of what I’d written. The result was that the music came alive in exactly the way I intended, and was full of colour, tonal shading, and vitality. A beautiful performance."
– Graham Lynch, composer
“Kayleen Sánchez' wonderfully sensitive interpretations evoke the full sway of Sappho’s fervent, impassioned imagination. Indeed, Sánchez' keen technical virtuosity manages to capture the finely shaded gradations of emotion that all three song cycles draw up from the well of human experience. Listen closely and you’ll discover that, long after the final syllable is sung, her voice still thrills along the spine.”
– Sherod Santos, poet
"Sanchez has a pure, lyric voice which she uses with imagination."
– Fanfare Magazine
“…a brilliant recording and experienced via transcendental performances.”
– Fanfare Magazine
"This is one of the most beautiful discs in my collection.... Soprano Kayleen Sánchez has the perfect voice, pure and unshakably direct in delivery.... The gradual journey from resignation and regret to hope [in Paul Sánchez' "Magus"] is experienced as an opening out of the human spirit; Kayleen Sánchez’s purity of voice and total control of her instrument is utterly remarkable. Haunting in the extreme, the 23-minute song cycle Magus will be with you for a long time afterwards...."
– Fanfare Magazine
"beautiful and affecting."
– American Record Guide
""Soprano Kayleen Sánchez uses a pure tone... that evokes the text perfectly."
– The Clarinet Journal