Soprano Dawn Upshaw is one of the most revered and versatile American singers, a favorite conveyor of their works by renowned composers. The winner of four Grammy Awards, she is recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship and numerous other prizes and awards and is a fervent champion of musical risk takers. This week she joins the National Symphony Orchestra to sing Osvaldo Golijov’s “She Was Here,” the composer’s arrangement for her of four lieder by Franz Schubert infused with the sounds and styles of music from his native Argentina.

“Osvaldo and I met through the Kronos Quartet in 1999,” she said. “I was taken with his ‘The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind,’ which they recorded, and asked him to write a song for me. He wrote the song cycle ‘Ayre’ for me in 2004 and he continued to send me things. One of them was the Schubert work, so I sent him a list of the lieder from it that I liked. We ended up doing three of my choices and one of his.