Countertenor, Daniel Bubeck made his professional debut to critical acclaim as the First Countertenor in the premiere of John Adams' El Niño, directed by Peter Sellars and conducted by Kent Nagano at the Théâtre Musical de Paris-Châtelet. Since then he has performed this role more than thirty times in productions with the Boston Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, the Ravinia Festival, BBC Symphony, Radio Filharmonisch Holland, Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Deutsches Symphonie Orchester-Berlin, Tokyo Symphony, Malmø Opera in Sweden, and at the Adelaide Festival in Australia. The Châtelet production was recorded for Nonesuch. He has collaborated with such renowned conductors as Esa Peka Salonen, Robert Spano, David Robertson, Christopher Hogwood, Nicholas McGegan, Sian Edwards, Bruno Weil and Paul Hillier.

A noted specialist in music of the 17th and 18th centuries, Mr. Bubeck is a frequent soloist in music of that period. Most recently he sang the title role in Scarlatti’s Tigrane at the 2008 Bloomington Early Music Festival. Last season he sang arias of Handel with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and Handel’s Messiah at SUNY Fredonia. In the spring 2007 he sang the role of David in Handel's Saul with the Central Florida Bach Festival and covered the role of Guido in Handel's Flavio at New York City Opera. He has also been a featured soloist with such period ensembles as the American Bach Soloists, Carmel Bach Festival, Theater of Voices, Catacoustic Consort, Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, and Brandywine Baroque.

Mr. Bubeck is equally at home in performances of contemporary music. Following his success in El Niño he was re-engaged by the Tokyo Symphony in 2004 for Hans Werner Henze's Das verratene Meer conducted by Kazuyoshi Akiyama. He sang in the American premiere of Lost Objects at the Brooklyn Academy of Music with Concerto Köln, music by David Lang, Julia Wolfe and Michael Gordon. In 2005 he sang excerpts from Phillip Glass' Akhnaten in the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Minimalist Juke Box Series conducted by John Adams. The LA Times wrote: "The countertenor Daniel Bubeck sang Akhanten's 'Hymn to the sun' with exquisite beauty." He has also sung the role of Oberon in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream for productions at Indiana University and the Peabody Conservatory.

Upcoming performances include further performances of El Niño with the St. Louis Symphony as well as the title role in Handel’s Giulio Cesare at Indiana University.

Daniel Bubeck can be heard on recordings of The Masses of William Byrd with the Indiana Pro Arte under Paul Hillier (Harmonia Mundi) and John Adams' El Niño conducted by Kent Nagano (Nonesuch / Art Haus Musik DVD). He sang for the soundtrack of the Warner Brothers thriller I Am Legend, starring Will Smith, released in December 2007.

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

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