The all-women a capella ensemble Lyyra (the only one of its kind based in the United States) presents their debut album with a genre-defying program that showcases the multifaceted beauty of upper voices. Created by VOCES 8, Lyyra’s members are Anna Crumley, MaryRuth Miller, Elizabeth Tait, Ingrid Johnson, Aryssa Leigh Burrs and Cecille Elliott, representing a wide range of specialisms in classical, jazz, pop, folk and more. Rising features music by Hildegard von Bingen, Amy Beach, Leslie Savoy Burrs, and Blake Morgan, and new arrangements of popular songs by Vienna Teng, Donny Hathaway, Simon & Garfunkel, and Billie Eillish. Lyyra made their Chicago debut last spring at Northeastern Illinois University’s Jewel Box Series.