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| Barbara Rearick, mezzo-soprano. | |
b i o g r a p h y...........back to roster....up July 2012 American mezzo Barbara Rearick, whom Opera News singles out for her “tonal beauty” and Gramophone Magazine for her “charm and finesse,” is quickly establishing herself as one of today’s most versatile and fascinating singers on stage, be it in opera, oratorio, lied, contemporary music or cabaret. Ever since her 1993 Carnegie Hall debut in Messiah—a work that would become a staple of her repertoire—her fast-growing career has taken her to both sides of the Atlantic with such orchestras as Houston Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and conductors as Hans Graf, Robert Spano, JoAnn Falletta and Carlos Miguel Prieto. She is also a founding member of the Britten-Pears Ensemble, a chamber group specializing in rarely heard contemporary works. 2009/10 was a banner season marked by a series of debuts: at Chicago Symphony’s MusicNow series performing Twice Through the Heart, a piece for mezzo-soprano and orchestra by Mark Anthony Turnage; at Zankel Hall singing Bach’s Magnificat with Voices of Ascension under Dennis Keene, and at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston bringing Mozart’s Coronation Mass into focus. Other highlights included Messiah with the Indianapolis and Memphis symphonies, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with both the Colorado and Syracuse symphonies, and the Coronation Mass with Eugene Symphony. Overseas she joined the Hallé Orchestra in de Falla’s El Amor Brujo and arias from Carmen. In 2012/13, Rearick can be heard in Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with the Canterbury Choral Society, while last season she joined the Nashville Symphony’s performance of Messiah and the St. Matthew Passion with Voices of Ascension. During the prior season, she continued her busy schedule with return engagements to the Syracuse Symphony in Messiah, and Winter Park Festival in Bach’s St. John Passion and Cantata 112. She also offered Mohammed Fairoux’s Sumeida’s Song at the Society for Ethical Culture in New York and showcased Mahler’s Rückert Lieder in Princeton. 2008 saw her perform in the world premiere of Douglas Cuomo’s opera Arjuna’s Dilemma at the PepsiCo Theatre in Purchase, NY, followed by performances at BAM’s Next Wave Festival. Houston Symphony in Vivaldi’s Gloria and Bach’s Magnificat, Helena Symphony in Messiah, Huntsville Symphony with Lord Nelson Mass and Musica Sacra in the St. John Passion under Kent Tritle rounded out the season. Outside the US, she has found particular success in Great Britain, where she made her debut at the 1987 Aldeburgh Festival in the title role of Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia and has returned many times since. She sang that composer’s A Charm of Lullabies in the orchestral version by Colin Matthews with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. In 1994 she premiered three songs which Sir Richard Rodney Bennett wrote especially for her at the Burnham Market Concerts in Norfolk. In Wales she gave a recital of Percy Grainger songs for the inaugural festival at the Nimbus Arts Centre. And her Britten-Pears Ensemble has enjoyed frequent invitations in that region, including a premiere of Jonathan Lloyd’s People Your Dreams at Wigmore Hall in London. In addition to the aforementioned orchestras, Rearick’s concert career over the years has taken her to the Santa Rosa Symphony under Jeffrey Kahane in Britten’s Spring Symphony, Kansas City Symphony in a concert version of Stravinsky’s opera Le rossignol, and the Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester in Berlin where she portrayed the roles of Miriam, Ruth, and the Witch of Endor for the world-premiere performance and recording of Kurt Weill’s The Eternal Road under Gerard Schwarz. Her many Messiah performances have brought her together with the orchestras of Houston, Indianapolis, Baltimore, Buffalo, to name a few. On the opera stage she has offered a variety of roles, ranging from Cherubino and Suzuki to Meg Page and Hansel. Highlights have included the title role in the world-premiere performance of The Mary Shelley Opera by Allan Jaffe, Lucretia (The Rape of Lucretia) in Rio de Janeiro at Sala Cecilia Meireles, and Maddalena (Rigoletto) in a semi-staged production with the Spokane Symphony to which she "brought juicy sensuality." She has also portrayed the roles of Geneviève in Pelléas et Mélisande and Mother in Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors. A prolific performer and champion of 20th-century music, the singer gave the US premiere of Nicholas Maw’s Nocturne with Leon Botstein and the American Symphony at Bard, collaborated with the New York New Music Ensemble for the world premiere of Sunflower by Mary Wright, and last season sang A Winter’s Journey, Douglas Cuomo’s setting of Müller’s text (from Schubert’s Winterreise). Frequent collaborations with the New York Chamber Ensemble resulted in performances of Ravel’s Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé, Ravel’s Chansons madécasses, and Berlioz’s Les nuits d’été. Barbara Rearick has appeared on BBC World Service Radio, WQXR, and NPR and has recorded for Naxos, Gateway Classics, and ASV. Born in Pennsylvania, she is currently a member of the voice faculty at Princeton University.
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. o r c h e s t r a - r e p e r t o i r e........back to roster....up Concert Appearances *American Symphony Nocturne (Nicholas Maw) Britten-Pears Ensemble Il Tramonto (Respighi) Britten-Pears Orchestra Lenfance Du Christ (Berlioz) Britten-Pears Orchestra Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen (Mahler) **City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra A Charm Of Lullabies (Britten) Delaware Valley Symphony Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven) Festival Orchestra Of Philadelphia B Minor Mass (Bach) Greenwich Village Choral Society Judas Maccabeus (Handel) Hallé Orchestra Magnificat (Bach) Hallé Orchestra Dixit Dominus (Handel) Irish Chamber Orchestra Christmas Oratorio (Bach) Irish Chamber Orchestra Requiem (Mozart) Manchester Camerata Old American Songs (Copland) Masterwork (Carnegie Hall) Messiah (Handel) Nashville Symphony Spring Symphony (Britten) ***New York Choral Society (Carnegie Hall) Toward A Time Of Renewal (Joelle Wallach) Orchestra of St. Johns Smith Square Harmoniemesse (Haydn) Orchestra of St. Johns Smith Square Lord Nelson Mass (Haydn) Orchestra of St. Johns Smith Square St. Cecilia Mass (Haydn) Orchestra of St. Johns Smith Square St. Nicholas Mass (Haydn) Orchestra of St. Johns Smith Square (London) Messiah (Handel) Phoenix Symphony Messiah (Handel) Princeton University Symphony Orchestra Elijah (Mendelssohn) Princeton University Symphony Orchestra Symphony No. 2 (Mahler) Princeton University Symphony Orchestra Requiem (Mozart) Richardson Chamber Players Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen (Mahler) Springfield Symphony Orchestra Cantata 12 (Bach) St. James Church Chorus & Orchestra B Minor Mass (Bach) St. James Church Chorus & Orchestra Chichester Psalms (Bernstein) St. James Church Chorus & Orchestra Stabat Mater (Vivaldi) The National Chorale (Avery Fisher Hall) Messiah (Handel) Wheeling Symphony Old American Songs (Copland) * U.S. Premiere ** European Premiere *** World Premiere b i o.....o p e r a - r e p e r t o i r e.....o r c h e s t r a - r e p e r t o i r e r e c i t a l - r e p e r t o i r e......r e c o r d i n g s back to roster...up . . . . |
. r e c i t a l - r e p e r t o i r e...........back to roster....up R.R. Bennett GERSHWIN SONGS (arr.) String quartet, flute, clarinet, harp, mezzo Brahms LIEBESLIEDER WALTZES Vocal quartet, 2 pianos Britten ABRAHAM AND ISAAC Piano, tenor, mezzo Hindemith DIE JÜNGE MAGD String quartet, flute, clarinet, mezzo André Jolivet SUITE LITURGIQUE Cor Anglais, cello, harp, mezzo André Jolivet TROIS POÈMES Flute, clarinet, oboe, basson, trumpet, mezzo Jonathan Lloyd PEOPLE YOUR DREAMS String quartet, flute, clarinet, harp, mezzo (World Premiere, Aldeburgh Festival) Mahler LIEDER EINES FAHRENDEN GESELLEN Chamber orchestra, mezzo (Schoenberg arr.) Frank Martin QUATRE SONNETS À CASSANDRE Cello, viola, flute, mezzo Nicholas Maw ROMAN CANTICLE Flute, viola, harp, mezzo Nicholas Maw NOCTURNE Chamber orchestra, mezzo Ravel CHANSONS MADÉCASSES Cello, flute, piano, mezzo (Wall to Wall Debussy & Ravel, Symphony Space) Respighi IL TRAMONTO String quartet (or Chamber Orch.), mezzo Stravinsky 3 SONGS OF W. SHAKESPEARE Flute, clarinet, viola, mezzo Mary Wright SUNFLOWER Flute, clarinet, percussion, electronic keyboards, tape, mezzo (World Premiere, New York New Music Ensemble, Miller Theatre, Columbia University) b i o.....o p e r a - r e p e r t o i r e.....o r c h e s t r a - r e p e r t o i r e r e c i t a l - r e p e r t o i r e......r e c o r d i n g s back to roster...up . . . . |
. r e c o r d i n g s...........back to roster....up The Eternal Road with Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester-Berlin, Gerard Schwarz conducting Naxos, Berlin, 2001 A Summers Day with Richard Jacobowski, guitarist Gateway Classics, 1997 (Elizabethan Songs) The Music of André Jolivet with The Britten-Pears Ensemble ASV, London, 1997 The Music of Frank Martin with The Britten-Pears Ensemble ASV, London, 1995 b i o.....o p e r a - r e p e r t o i r e.....o r c h e s t r a - r e p e r t o i r e r e c i t a l - r e p e r t o i r e......r e c o r d i n g s back to roster...up . . . . |
