Acclaimed American countertenor Daniel Bubeck has emerged as a singer of international distinction in opera and oratorio from the baroque to contemporary works. Mr. Bubeck made his professional debut to critical acclaim in the world premiere of John Adams's El Niño, conducted by Kent Nagano at the Théâtre Musical de Paris-Châtelet opposite Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, and Dawn Upshaw. 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, Orchestra of St. Lukes, 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, Gary Wedow and Paul Hillier.
A noted Handelian, Mr. Bubeck has interpreted and covered operatic and oratorio roles including Giulio Cesare, Rinaldo, Solomon, David (Saul), Guido (Flavio) Armindo (Partenope) and Tauride (Arianna in Creta), Israel in Egypt and Messiah for companies including New York City Opera, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Carmel Bach Festival, St. Thomas Fifth Ave and Opera Vivente.
Other career highlights 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 and Partenope 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 Messiah with the Lexington Philharmonic, Adams’ El Niño with the Estonian Philharmonic, Lost Objects at Alice Tully Hall in NYC and the world premiere of John Adams’ oratorio, The Gospel According to the Other Mary with the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Gustavo Dudamel.
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 and recipient of a Sullivan Career Grant.