Dan Bubeck
Acclaimed American countertenor Daniel Bubeck has emerged as a singer of international distinction in opera and oratorio from the baroque to contemporary masterpieces. Mr. Bubeck made his professional debut to critical acclaim in the world premiere of John Adams' El Niño, directed by Peter Sellars and conducted by Kent Nagano at the Théâtre Musical de Paris-Châtelet opposite Dawn Upshaw, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, and Willard White. He has since performed the work on four continents in over 20 different productions with such esteemed orchestras as Boston Symphony, BBC Symphony, Deutsches Symphonie Orchester-Berlin, and Tokyo Symphony, Radio Filharmonisch Holland, Adelaide Festival, St. Louis Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Ravinia Festival, Malmø Opera and Royal Flemish Philharmonic. He has collaborated with such renowned conductors as Esa Peka Salonen, Robert Spano, David Robertson, John Adams, Daniel Reuss, Bruno Weil and Paul Hillier.

A noted Handelian, Mr. Bubeck has interpreted and covered operatic and oratorio roles including Giulio Cesare, Solomon, David (Saul), Guido (Flavio) and Tauride (Arianna in Creta) for companies including New York City Opera and Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Other highlights include collaborations with Los Angeles Philharmonic and John Adams, Concerto Koln, American Bach Soloists, Carmel Bach Festival, Princeton Festival and Gotham Chamber Opera in varied repertoire from Bach to Britten and Handel to Henze.

Past solo performances include the role of Oberon in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Princeton Festival, concerts of Handel arias with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the title role in Handel’s Giulio Cesare at Indiana University, Handel’s Flavio at New York City Opera, Messiah and St. Matthew Passion with American Bach Soloists, excerpts from Phillip Glass' Akhnaten with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by John Adams, Henze's Das verratene Meer with the Tokyo Symphony, the American Premiere of Lost Objects with Concerto Köln, music by David Lang, Julia Wolfe and Michael Gordon, Scarlatti’s Tigrane at the Bloomington Early Music Festival and Carmina Burana in São Paulo, Brazil .

Upcoming engagements include Adams’ El Niño with the Orchestra of St. Lukes at Carnegie Hall conducted by John Adams and Handel’s Partenope with New York City Opera.

Daniel Bubeck can be heard on recordings of John Adams' El Niño conducted by Kent Nagano (Nonesuch /Art Haus Musik DVD) and the Masses of William Byrd with the Indiana Pro Arte under Paul Hillier (Harmonia Mundi). He also sang for the soundtrack of the Warner Brothers thriller, I Am Legend, starring Will Smith.

Mr. Bubeck is a native of Wilmington Delaware and holds degrees from Indiana University, Peabody Conservatory and the University of Delaware. He also studied at the Britten-Pears School in Aldeburgh, the Salzburg Mozarteum, Attersee Barock Akademie and Oberlin Conservatory's Baroque Performance Institute. He was a winner in the 2009 Liederkranz Vocal Competition, a Sullivan Career Grant, Metropolitan National Council Auditions (Pittsburgh District) and was a Virginia Best Adams Fellow at the 2004 Carmel Bach Festival.

 
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