Liza Sobel Crane

Liza Sobel Crane is a Chicago based composer and soprano.  Her compositions are often influenced by current social issues. Recent inspirations include anxiety and stress in today’s society, the negative impact of social media and its links to depression and suicide, sexual assault, neurodiversity, and other health issues, including the Covid-19 pandemic.

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enues her music has been performed in include Carnegie Hall, Le Poisson Rouge, Symphony Space, Bang on a Can, Aspen Festival, Creative Lab, Aldeburgh Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme, Norfolk New Music Workshop, Brevard, and Bowdoin.  Performers that have played her music include: Orchestra of St. Luke's, Minnesota Orchestra, Ensemble Dal Niente, Spektral Quartet, Thalia Quartet, Cygnus Ensemble, Third Coast Percussion, Nouveau Classical Project, and Ekmeles.  Liza was a Fulbright scholar to the UK.

As a singer, Liza performs standard and new repertoire, and numerous composers have written pieces for her.  Most recently, she performed the world premiere of her opera, I DID, DID I? with the Zafa Collective at the Poetry Foundation in Chicago.  This season, she also performed George Crumb's Apparition at Constellation as part of Chicago’s Ear Taxi Festival.  

Liza studied at Northwestern University's Bienen School of Music (DMA), Rutgers University’s Mason Gross Conservatory (MA); Cornell University (BA with honors), and Manhattan School of Music.  For more information, please see her website, lizasobel.com.