Eliza Bagg
Eliza Bagg is an experimental vocalist and composer. She is known for her “ethereal” aesthetic (The New York Times) and “gossamer” singing (The New Yorker), along with her unique performance and improvisational practice. Frequently developing new work in collaboration with composers like Ted Hearne, Ellen Reid, Gabriel Kahane, Caroline Shaw, Meredith Monk, and John Zorn, Bagg has performed as a soloist around the globe from the Concertgebouw to Carnegie Hall. She has performed lead roles in new operas with institutions from the Komische Oper Berlin to Opera Philadelphia to the Prototype Festival and is a member of Grammy-winning vocal group Roomful of Teeth.
She has sung as a soloist with major orchestras including the Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony, New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, and Los Angeles Philharmonic. Highlights of the 2024/25 season include performing Ted Hearne’s opera The Source at Festival Musica Strasbourg and El Relicario De Los Animales by Pauline Oliveros with Long Beach Opera; premiering work with Roomful of Teeth at Carnegie Hall; and singing with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Lorelei Ensemble, Wild Up, and the LA Phil New Music Group.
Bagg’s compositional work combines virtuosic singing, mainstream pop aesthetics, and historically informed performance with electronic processing to explore the “valley between authenticity and artifice” (The Guardian). She has been in residence as a composer at Yaddo and Avaloch Farm and has had theatrical works presented by REDCAT New Original Works Festival and Wild Up’s Endless Season. She has performed her innovative work for processed voice at institutions such as Big Ears Festival, Birds of Paradise Festival, Musica Festival Strasbourg, De Doelen, and the Bemis Center. The “electro-pop alien” (NPR) has released three solo albums and tours globally under the artist name Lisel.
