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Barbara Rearick, mezzo-soprano.

b i o g r a p h y...........back to roster....up April 2009 "A singer…who can happily turn her talents to opera, oratorio, or cabaret," mezzo-soprano Barbara Rearick brings her intrinsic vocal beauty and empathy to a great range of musical literature. Her ability to uncover depths of emotion has garnered praise from audiences worldwide. Ms. Rearick’s critically acclaimed interpretation of the title role in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia, performed at Snape Maltings for the Aldeburgh Festival and conducted by Britten expert Steuart Bedford, jump-started her career. This led to her becoming a founding member of the prestigious Britten-Pears Ensemble, a chamber group which toured America and the UK and specialized in the music of the greatest composers of the 20th century. The ensemble premiered Jonathan Lloyd’s People Your Dreams at London’s Wigmore Hall and made two recordings for the ASV label. The ongoing collaboration between Ms. Rearick and Sir Richard Rodney Bennett began when the Britten-Pears Ensemble commissioned the prominent composer to arrange songs by George Gershwin. Making their Wigmore Hall debut in October of 1995, Ms. Rearick and Sir Richard performed an all-American program as well as the London premiere of A History of the Thé Dansant, a song cycle Sir Richard wrote especially for Ms. Rearick. The Eastern Daily Press wrote, "Take one outstanding pianist/composer and one very special mezzo-soprano, give them a program of cabaret songs—and stand back for an experience...entertainment that was so witty, so expert and so artistic." The celebrated duo was featured at festivals throughout the UK including those of Buxton, Aldeburgh, Chester, Norwich, and Spitalfields (London), and the AerFi Festival in Killaloe, Ireland. Other highlights in the UK include Bach’s Christmas Oratorio in Dublin with the Irish Chamber Orchestra, an evening of Jerome Kern with the Hallé Orchestra conducted by Sir William Southgate, Bach’s Magnificat and Handel’s Dixit Dominus again with the Hallé Orchestra under the direction of Nicholas McGegan, and songs of Richard Rodgers for the Hallé Proms. In London, she performed Messiah with Harry Bicket and the Orchestra of St. John’s Smith Square, as well as the orchestral version of Britten’s A Charm of Lullabies, arranged by Colin Matthews, with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Steuart Bedford. Ms. Rearick teamed up with Maestro Bedford again for a performance of Berlioz’s L’enfance du Christ with the Britten-Pears Orchestra. She sang songs of Percy Grainger with esteemed British pianist Martin Jones for the inaugural festival for the Nimbus Performing Arts Centre in Wales. In the US, Ms. Rearick has performed at major venues, including Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Weill Recital Hall, and Brooklyn Academy of Music, and she makes her debut at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater in Bach’s St. John Passion with Musica Sacra under Kent Tritle this October. She also performs Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with Maestro Tritle for the series Sacred Music in a Sacred Space. Engagements during the 2008/09 season include the world premiere performance of Douglas Cuomo’s opera Arjuna’s Dilemma at the PepsiCo Theater in Purchase, NY, followed by performances at BAM’s Next Wave Festival later in the season. She also performs Messiah with the Helena Symphony, Lord Nelson Mass with Huntsville Symphony, the Gloria Magnificat with Houston Symphony and the St. John Passion with Musica Sacra. Ms. Rearick’s 2007–08 season included an all-Beethoven program at Carnegie Hall with the New York Oratorio Society, Bach’s Mass in B minor with Voices of Ascension under Dennis Keene, Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 with the Helena Symphony, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion at the Northwest Bach Festival with Gunther Schuller, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 under Maestro Daniel Hege and the Amarillo Symphony, and Messiah with the Monterey Symphony with Maestro Christoph Campestrini. Other concert appearances include Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with the Utah Symphony under the direction of Keith Lockhart; an all-American program with Wheeling Symphony as a memorial to September 11th victims; popular American songs with the Pasadena Pops; performances Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and Prokofiev’s The Ugly Duckling with the Baltimore Symphony; Britten’s Spring Symphony under Maestro Jeffrey Kahane with Santa Rosa Symphony; Schoenberg’s arrangement of Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with the Richardson Chamber Players in Princeton, NJ, and with the Britten-Pears Ensemble at Snape Maltings for the Britten-Mahler-Verdi Festival; Messiah with the Houston Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, and the Buffalo Symphony under JoAnne Falletta; the role of Meg Page in Verdi’s Falstaff with the Brooklyn Philharmonic under Robert Spano; and, in Mexico, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with Carlos Miguel Prieto and the Xalapa Sinfonia. Opera highlights include the role of Mary in the world-premiere performance of Allan Jaffe’s The Mary Shelley Opera under Alan Johnson; Lucretia (The Rape of Lucretia) in Rio de Janeiro at Sala Cecilia Meireles; the roles of Miriam, Ruth, and the Witch of Endor for the world-premiere recording of Kurt Weill’s The Eternal Road under Gerard Schwarz with the Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin; and the role of the Cook in Stravinsky’s Le Rossignol with the Kansas City Symphony. Other roles include Suzuki, Cherubino, Hansel, the Mother (Amahl and the Night Visitors), Maddalena (Spokane Symphony, Ekart Preu, conductor), Meg Page (Chautauqua Opera, Willie Anthony Waters, conductor), Mercedes, and Mrs. Nolan (The Center for Contemporary Opera). A champion of 20th-century music, Ms. Rearick has collaborated with the New York New Music Ensemble, performing the world premiere of Sunflower, composed by Mary Wright. She also gave the US premiere of Nicholas Maw’s Nocturne with Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra at Bard, and last season she sang A Winter’s Journey, Douglas Cuomo’s setting of Müller’s text (found in Schubert’s Winterreise), a song cycle for mezzo, trumpet, cello, and electronics. She has also collaborated with the New York Chamber Ensemble, performing Ravel’s Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé, Ravel’s Chansons madécasses, and Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’été. She has toured with the Mark Morris Dance Group performing Brahms’s Liebeslieder Waltzes and other works. Ms. Rearick has appeared on BBC World Service Radio, WQXR, and NPR and has recorded for Naxos, Gateway Classics, and ASV. Barbara Rearick is a native of central Pennsylvania and is on the voice faculty at Princeton University. click to read Barbara Rearick's resume (Microsoft Word) b i o.....o p e r a - r e p e r t o i r e.....o r c h e s t r a - r e p e r t o i r e r e c i t a l - r e p e r t o i r e......r e c o r d i n g s back to roster...up . . . .

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. o r c h e s t r a - r e p e r t o i r e........back to roster....up Concert Appearances *American Symphony — Nocturne (Nicholas Maw) Britten-Pears Ensemble — Il Tramonto (Respighi) Britten-Pears Orchestra — L’enfance Du Christ (Berlioz) Britten-Pears Orchestra — Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen (Mahler) **City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra — A Charm Of Lullabies (Britten) Delaware Valley Symphony — Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven) Festival Orchestra Of Philadelphia — B Minor Mass (Bach) Greenwich Village Choral Society — Judas Maccabeus (Handel) Hallé Orchestra — Magnificat (Bach) Hallé Orchestra — Dixit Dominus (Handel) Irish Chamber Orchestra — Christmas Oratorio (Bach) Irish Chamber Orchestra — Requiem (Mozart) Manchester Camerata — Old American Songs (Copland) Masterwork (Carnegie Hall) — Messiah (Handel) Nashville Symphony — Spring Symphony (Britten) ***New York Choral Society (Carnegie Hall) — Toward A Time Of Renewal (Joelle Wallach) Orchestra of St. John’s Smith Square — Harmoniemesse (Haydn) Orchestra of St. John’s Smith Square — Lord Nelson Mass (Haydn) Orchestra of St. John’s Smith Square — St. Cecilia Mass (Haydn) Orchestra of St. John’s Smith Square — St. Nicholas Mass (Haydn) Orchestra of St. John’s Smith Square (London) — Messiah (Handel) Phoenix Symphony — Messiah (Handel) Princeton University Symphony Orchestra — Elijah (Mendelssohn) Princeton University Symphony Orchestra — Symphony No. 2 (Mahler) Princeton University Symphony Orchestra — Requiem (Mozart) Richardson Chamber Players — Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen (Mahler) Springfield Symphony Orchestra — Cantata 12 (Bach) St. James Church Chorus & Orchestra — B Minor Mass (Bach) St. James Church Chorus & Orchestra — Chichester Psalms (Bernstein) St. James Church Chorus & Orchestra — Stabat Mater (Vivaldi) The National Chorale (Avery Fisher Hall) — Messiah (Handel) Wheeling Symphony — Old American Songs (Copland) * U.S. Premiere ** European Premiere *** World Premiere b i o.....o p e r a - r e p e r t o i r e.....o r c h e s t r a - r e p e r t o i r e r e c i t a l - r e p e r t o i r e......r e c o r d i n g s back to roster...up . . . .

. r e c i t a l - r e p e r t o i r e...........back to roster....up R.R. Bennett — GERSHWIN SONGS (arr.) — String quartet, flute, clarinet, harp, mezzo Brahms — LIEBESLIEDER WALTZES — Vocal quartet, 2 pianos Britten — ABRAHAM AND ISAAC — Piano, tenor, mezzo Hindemith — DIE JÜNGE MAGD — String quartet, flute, clarinet, mezzo André Jolivet — SUITE LITURGIQUE — Cor Anglais, cello, harp, mezzo André Jolivet — TROIS POÈMES — Flute, clarinet, oboe, basson, trumpet, mezzo Jonathan Lloyd — PEOPLE YOUR DREAMS — String quartet, flute, clarinet, harp, mezzo (World Premiere, Aldeburgh Festival) Mahler — LIEDER EINES FAHRENDEN GESELLEN — Chamber orchestra, mezzo (Schoenberg arr.) Frank Martin — QUATRE SONNETS À CASSANDRE — Cello, viola, flute, mezzo Nicholas Maw — ROMAN CANTICLE — Flute, viola, harp, mezzo Nicholas Maw — NOCTURNE — Chamber orchestra, mezzo Ravel — CHANSONS MADÉCASSES — Cello, flute, piano, mezzo (Wall to Wall Debussy & Ravel, Symphony Space) Respighi — IL TRAMONTO — String quartet (or Chamber Orch.), mezzo Stravinsky — 3 SONGS OF W. SHAKESPEARE — Flute, clarinet, viola, mezzo Mary Wright — SUNFLOWER — Flute, clarinet, percussion, electronic keyboards, tape, mezzo (World Premiere, New York New Music Ensemble, Miller Theatre, Columbia University) b i o.....o p e r a - r e p e r t o i r e.....o r c h e s t r a - r e p e r t o i r e r e c i t a l - r e p e r t o i r e......r e c o r d i n g s back to roster...up . . . .

. r e c o r d i n g s...........back to roster....up The Eternal Road with Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester-Berlin, Gerard Schwarz conducting Naxos, Berlin, 2001 A Summer’s Day with Richard Jacobowski, guitarist Gateway Classics, 1997 (Elizabethan Songs) The Music of André Jolivet with The Britten-Pears Ensemble ASV, London, 1997 The Music of Frank Martin with The Britten-Pears Ensemble ASV, London, 1995 b i o.....o p e r a - r e p e r t o i r e.....o r c h e s t r a - r e p e r t o i r e r e c i t a l - r e p e r t o i r e......r e c o r d i n g s back to roster...up . . . .