phyllis bryn

phyllis bryn-julson

Phyllis Bryn-Julson provided her "pitch-perfect, three-octave range" to the choral sections of 200 Motels.

soprano

from: http://www.stokar.com/brynjulson_bio.htm
known for her lustrous voice and her pitch-perfect three-octave range, phyllis bryn-julson commands a remarkable amount of vocal literature that spans many centuries.

engagements during the past two seasons include performances in los angeles during the 1996 boulez festival, five performances including her celebrated unaccompanied recital at the tel aviv new music festival, performances in stockholm, sweden with conductor esa-pekka salonen on two separate occasions, orchestral engagements in geneva, switzerland, seattle and omaha, as well as numerous recitals including those in washington, d.c., at the yale summer school, and at the university of north carolina. currently taking part in a year-long celebration of the 70th birthday of gyorgy ligeti. ms. bryn-julson is performing his works in amsterdam, london and paris. she has recorded his music for sony in a complete edition of mr. ligetis works. her lengthy list of recordings continues to win many awards and prizes. she was nominated for a grammy in 1997 for her performance in dallapicollas opera ii prigioniero, which also won the prix du monde. her performance of erwartung by arnold schoenberg, won the 1995 best opera grammaphone award. soon to be released on the arabesque label will be her first recording with leon fleisher, pianist. of schumanns frauenliebe und leben. she has recorded for cbs masterworks, cr1, decca, edici, erato, london, louisville, new world, nonesuch, orion, deutsche grammophon, rca, gothic, collins. emi, and music and arts.

ms. bryn-julson recently received an honorary doctorate from concordia college in moorhead, minnesota. in the spring of 1997, she was awarded the dickenson college arts award, which in the past had been granted to the philadelphia orchestra, w.h. auden, and robert frost, to name a few. phyllis bryn-julson appears extensively in europe in every major city, and at every major festival. with the ensemble intercontemporaine under the direction of pierre boulez, she has traveled to canada, spain, japan, australia, russia, and all of europe including england. her unaccompanied recital has received standing ovations in paris, at the warsaw festival, in israel, and in the united states. she is particularly known for her works of the 20th century, including works of schoenberg, boulez, webern, berg, bernstein, carter, wuorinen, stravinsky, and britten. this season alone, she will premier compositions by matthew burtner, elliott carter, mark schultz, henri lazaroff, william albright, and gyorgy kurtag. a member of the peabody conservatory faculty in baltimore, maryland. ms. bryn-julson is the coordinator of the voice department. in 1988, she performed with the peabody orchestra in moscow, and became the first american ever to give a master class at the moscow conservatory of music.

ms. bryn-julson made her opera debut in the 1976 world premier of roger sessions montezuma in the lead role of malinche. later at covent garden, she performed in both le rossignol by stravinsky, and lenfant et les sortileges, by ravel. she has also performed the role of vitellia in la clemenza di tito several times in germany as well as at the mostly mozart festival in new york.

1993 minnesota orchestra- beethoven: overtures and incidental music / skrowaczewski

beethoven "die weihe des hauses" minnesota orchestra, skrowaczewski, conductor (vox box 5156)

beethoven "missa solemnis" sinfonieorchester des suedwestfunks; gielen, conductor (aurophon 031445 cd)

birtwistle "punch and judy" london sinfonietta; atherton, conductor (etcetera 2014)

boulez "le visage nuptial"; "le soleil des eaux" bbc symphony, boulez, conductor (erato 2292-45494-2)

britten "our hunting fathers" english chamber orchestra, bedford, conductor (collins 11922)

brubeck "la fiesta de la posada" st.paul chamber orchestra, russell-davies, conductor (cbs 73903)

carter "a mirror on which to dwell" ensemble intercontemporaine, boulez, conductor(erato 2292—45364—2)

clayton "cree songs to the newborn"; dickman songs, hibbard "menage" weisberg, conductor (cri sd 498)

del tredici "an alice symphony" tanglewood festival orchestra, knussen, conductor (cri)

del tredici "in memory of a summer day" st. louis symphony, slatkin, conductor (nonesuch 79043)

del tredici "syzygy" festival chamber orchestra, dufallo, conductor (cri sd 492)

griffes "three songs of fiona macleod" boston symphony orchestra, ozawa, conductor (new world 273)

haydn "grande messe avec orgue" orchestre de paul keuntz keuntz, conductor (edici 41050)

jones "ambiance" contemporary chamber ensemble, weisberg, conductor (nonesuch h-71302)

krenek "string quartet" and songs southwest chamber, ligeti "vocal works" (sony)

lockwood "to margarita debayle" and walker songs, donald s. sutherland and george walker, pianists (cri sd 488)

rhodes "lament of michal" louisville orchestra, mester, conductor (lo first edition 704)

rhodes from "paradise lost" louisville orchestra, mester, conductor (lo first edition 723)

schoenberg "pierrot lunaire" ensemble modern, eotvos, conductor (rca 09026-61179-2)

schoenberg "pierrot lunaire" new york new music ensemble, black, conductor (gm cd 2030 cd)

schoenberg "erwartung" swf orchestra, baden-baden gielen, conductor(swf 860-915)

sibelius "luonnatar" scottish national orchestra, gibson, conductor (chandos 8395 6)

stravinsky chamber works ensemble intercontemporaine, boulez, conductor (deutsche grammophon 2531 377)

varese "offrandes" & "octandes" orchestre nationale de france, nagano, conductor (erato cd 4509-92137-2)

wuorinen "a winter’s tale" lincoln center chamber players, wuorinen, conductor (koch international classics cd 7272)

wuorinen "a winter’s tale"; schuller and carter songs, with mark markham, pianist (music & arts cd 900)