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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