Dawn Upshaw
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Dawn Upshaw | |
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| Born | July 17, 1960 Nashville, Tennessee, US |
| Genres | Classical |
| Instrument | Vocals |
| Years active | 1984–present |
Dawn Upshaw (born July 17, 1960) is an American
MacArthur Fellowship.[1] In 2006, she founded the Graduate Vocal Arts Program at Bard College Conservatory in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, serving as artistic director until 2019. She currently serves as head of the Vocal Arts Program at the Tanglewood Music Center
in Lenox, Massachusetts.
Early life
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Dawn Upshaw was born in
Young Concert Artists International Auditions (1984) and the Walter M. Naumburg Competition (1985), and was a member of the Metropolitan Opera Young Artists Development Program. Since her start in 1984, Upshaw has made more than 300 appearances at the Metropolitan Opera
.
Career
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Upshaw came to international fame with her performance on the million-selling recording (1992), with David Zinman, of Symphony No 3 by Henryk Górecki, known as the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs (Symfonia pieśni żałosnych).
She has premiered more than twenty-five new works, notably
El Niño by John Adams, and Osvaldo Golijov's highly acclaimed chamber opera Ainadamar and song cycle Ayre. In 2009, she premiered David Bruce's
song cycle The North Wind was a Woman at the gala opening of the Chamber Music Society of the Lincoln Centre's season.
In addition to her operatic recordings, she has also sung the title role in the first complete recording of the score of
musical theater. Her engagements with James Levine over many years led to a 1997 recording of Claude Debussy
songs.
Upshaw appears on an album of Christmas music in association with the male vocal ensemble Chanticleer titled Christmas with Chanticleer featuring special guest Dawn Upshaw for Teldec Classics.[4]
Upshaw tours regularly with pianist
Händel's Theodora at Glyndebourne, his Paris production of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress—as part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Esa-Pekka Salonen's month-long residency at the Théâtre du Châtelet, 1996—a staging of Bach's cantata Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut, BWV 199, presented in the 1995–96 season at New York's 92nd Street Y, and the Salzburg Festival production of Olivier Messiaen's Saint François d'Assise (1998). Upshaw has often performed as a soloist at the annual Ojai Music Festival in California; most recently in 2006, 2008, and 2009. In 2011, she was the music director of the festival, where she performed the world premiere of the Peter Sellers-staged production of George Crumb's work Winds of Destiny. She joined the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra as artistic partner beginning with the 2007–08 season. In 2006, she founded the Graduate Vocal Arts Program at Bard College Conservatory in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, serving as artistic director until 2019, when she was succeeded by Stephanie Blythe.[5] She currently serves as head of the Vocal Arts Program at Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox, Massachusetts.[6]
Upshaw holds
honorary doctorates of arts from Yale University, the Manhattan School of Music, Illinois Wesleyan University, and Allegheny College. She is an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University from 2020 to 2026.[7]
Personal life
Upshaw is a divorced mother of two. She lives near New York City.[8] She was diagnosed with and treated for early-stage breast cancer in 2006.[9]
Awards and recognition
1989 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Soloist
- Stravinsky)
1991 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Soloist
- The Girl with Orange Lips (Ravel, etc.)
2003 Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance
- The Kronos Quartet & Dawn Upshaw for Berg: Lyric Suite
2006 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording
- The Atlanta Symphony and chorus with Dawn Upshaw for Golijov: Ainadamar (Fountain of Tears)
2007 MacArthur Fellowship[1]
2014 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Soloist
Selected discography
- 1990: Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Te deum H.146, Magnificat H.74, Kurt Moll, bass, John Aler, tenor, Dawn Upshaw, soprano, Ethna Robinson, contralto, Ann Muray, soprano and contralto, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conducted by Neville Marriner. CD EMI classics, 1991
- 1991: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro, conducted by James Levine, Deutsche Grammophon, 435 488-2
- 1992: Jules Massenet: Chérubin, conducted by Pinchas Steinberg, RCA Victor Red Seal CD, 09026-60593-2
- 1992: Henryk Górecki: Symphony No. 3, Nonesuch/Elektra Records CD, 79282
- 2005: James Levine's 25th Anniversary Metropolitan Opera Gala (1996), Deutsche Grammophon DVD, B0004602-09
- 2005: Ayre (Golijov), Deutsche Grammophon CD, 00289 477 5414
References
- ^ a b MacArthur Foundation
- ^ Oh, Kay! restored by Tommy Krasker, starring Dawn Upshaw and Kurt Ollmann, Roxbury Recordings (Nonesuch 1995)
- ^ Dawn Upshaw sings Rodgers & Hart, recorded NYC June 1995, (Nonesuch 1996)
- ^ "Christmas with Chanticleer". Chanticleer. Archived from the original on June 8, 2019. Retrieved June 8, 2019.
- ^ College, Bard (September 17, 2013). "at Bard College". bard.edu. Retrieved December 28, 2024.
- ^ "Dawn Upshaw". BSO. Retrieved December 28, 2024.
- ^ ""Dawn Upshaw"". Program for Andrew D. White Professors-at-Large, Cornell University. September 21, 2020. Archived from the original on February 25, 2021. Retrieved June 24, 2021.
- ^ [1] [dead link]
- ^ "Upshaw". Archived from the original on February 12, 2012. Retrieved March 30, 2015.
External links
- Colbert Artists Management, Inc.
- Biography
- Dawn Upshaw (February 1, 2002). "A Cup of Tea with Dawn Upshaw". NewMusicBox (Interview). Interviewed by Frank J. Oteri (published January 3, 2002).
- Interview with Dawn Upshaw by Bruce Duffie, April 25, 1991
- Cornell University Andrew Dickson White Professors-at-Large biography
