Lisa Kirchner‘s entre into the jazz venue is preceded by her years of experience in theatre and television. She has appeared on Broadway in the New York Shakespeare Festival productions of The Threepenny Opera, in which she understudied and appeared as Lucy Brown opposite Raul Julia, and in Galt MacDermot’s The Human Comedy. Off-Broadway, Kirchner originated the role of Irma Vep in Richard Foreman and Stanley Silverman’s Hotel for Criminals and its sequel, The American Imagination. She has been seen in numerous off and off-off Broadway productions at La Mama Theatre and annex, Westbeth Theater, Theater of the Open Eye, the Public Theater, and The American Place Theatre. On television she played Undine Spragg, in the BRAVO Cable channel’s Songs from the Heart, and a ballad singer, in Out of Our Father’s House on WNET’s Great Performances. As a dancer, she appeared in Grover Dale’s Houdini, and with the James Waring Dance Company at Judson Memorial Church and other venues. She was Judy Collins’ featured soloist at Carnegie Hall, and accompanied Collins as background singer improvising harmonies in concert, on television and on recordings.
Lisa Kirchner’s solo vocal albums, One More Rhyme (2000), When Lights Are Low ( 2002), In the Shadow of a Crow (2009) and Something to Sing About (2011) on Albany Records, and Charleston For You (2012) and Umbrellas In Mint (2012) on Verdant World Records, have garnered critical and industry praise. Kirchner has consistently sought out the creative and improvisational gift of outstanding performers with whom she collaborates to interpret her eclectic repertoire. She is a member of Actor's Equity (AEA), Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI), and a past member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS). She has been a recurring listee in Who’s Who in America, Who's Who in the Northeast and Who's Who in Women, for her work as recording artist, executive producer, actor, and photo, text rights and editorial freelancer.
Lisa Kirchner graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a BA in liberal arts specializing in literature, music and drama. Her training in music includes private piano and theory with Louise Vosgerchian, and theory and musicianship, voice, acting, and musical theater at Sarah Lawrence College with additional training in musicianship and theory at CCNY. As an actress she has studied with Viveca Lindfors, Andrei Serban, Irene Moore Jaglom, John Braswell, Bill Finley, Myra Rostova, Wynn Handman, Tim McDonnough, Julie Bovasso Austin Pendleton, and John Basil. From the age of six she studied ballet modern and jazz dance. Her vocal coaches have included Catherine "Kitty" Rowe Linville, Collin Romoff, Kurt Peterson, Candace Goetz, and Lorraine Nubar.
As singer, songwriter and producer, she has made and released six solo vocal albums, and as executive producer, six albums of the music of her father, the eminent Pulitzer Prize winning composer, Leon Kirchner. She has been a long time freelance photo researcher for the major US publishers as well as a French to English translator in several venues. Of late, as a contributing writer and photographer, she has compiled and edited an anthology of 69 writings about and by her father entitled, Leon Kirchner and His Verdant World, published by Verdant World Productions.
Lisa Kirchner‘s entre into the jazz venue is preceded by her years of experience in theatre and television. She has appeared on Broadway in the New York Shakespeare Festival productions of The Threepenny Opera, in which she understudied and appeared as Lucy Brown opposite Raul Julia, and in Galt MacDermot’s The Human Comedy. Off-Broadway, Kirchner originated the role of Irma Vep in Richard Foreman and Stanley Silverman’s Hotel for Criminals and its sequel, The American Imagination. She has been seen in numerous off and off-off Broadway productions at La Mama Theatre and annex, Westbeth Theater, Theater of the Open Eye, the Public Theater, and The American Place Theatre. On television she played Undine Spragg, in the BRAVO Cable channel’s Songs from the Heart, and a ballad singer, in Out of Our Father’s House on WNET’s Great Performances. As a dancer, she appeared in Grover Dale’s Houdini, and with the James Waring Dance Company at Judson Memorial Church and other venues. She was Judy Collins’ featured soloist at Carnegie Hall, and accompanied Collins as background singer improvising harmonies in concert, on television and on recordings.
Lisa Kirchner’s solo vocal albums, One More Rhyme (2000), When Lights Are Low ( 2002), In the Shadow of a Crow (2009) and Something to Sing About (2011) on Albany Records, and Charleston For You (2012) and Umbrellas In Mint (2012) on Verdant World Records, have garnered critical and industry praise. Kirchner has consistently sought out the creative and improvisational gift of outstanding performers with whom she collaborates to interpret her eclectic repertoire. She is a member of Actor's Equity (AEA), Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI), and a past member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS). She has been a recurring listee in Who’s Who in America, Who's Who in the Northeast and Who's Who in Women, for her work as recording artist, executive producer, actor, and photo, text rights and editorial freelancer.
Lisa Kirchner graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a BA in liberal arts specializing in literature, music and drama. Her training in music includes private piano and theory with Louise Vosgerchian, and theory and musicianship, voice, acting, and musical theater at Sarah Lawrence College with additional training in musicianship and theory at CCNY. As an actress she has studied with Viveca Lindfors, Andrei Serban, Irene Moore Jaglom, John Braswell, Bill Finley, Myra Rostova, Wynn Handman, Tim McDonnough, Julie Bovasso Austin Pendleton, and John Basil. From the age of six she studied ballet modern and jazz dance. Her vocal coaches have included Catherine "Kitty" Rowe Linville, Collin Romoff, Kurt Peterson, Candace Goetz, and Lorraine Nubar.
As singer, songwriter and producer, she has made and released six solo vocal albums, and as executive producer, six albums of the music of her father, the eminent Pulitzer Prize winning composer, Leon Kirchner. She has been a long time freelance photo researcher for the major US publishers as well as a French to English translator in several venues. Of late, as a contributing writer and photographer, she has compiled and edited an anthology of 69 writings about and by her father entitled, Leon Kirchner and His Verdant World, published by Verdant World Productions.