Bejun Mehta

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Bejun Mehta (born June 29, 1968) is an American countertenor who performs in operas, recitals, and concerts. He records for Harmonia Mundi. Mehta was born June 29, 1968 in Laurinburg, North Carolina, and grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His father, Dady Mehta, a pianist born in Shanghai, China of Indian parents, is a cousin of conductor Zubin Mehta. His father was professor of piano at Eastern Michigan University. His mother, Martha Ritchey Mehta of Altoona, Pennsylvania, was a soprano and journalist who worked in the development office of the University of Michigan Museum of Art, and she was Mehta's first voice teacher. His brother, Navroj Mehta, is a violinist, and the artistic director of the Ventura Music Festival. From the ages of nine through fifteen, Mehta was a celebrated solo boy soprano in concerts and recordings. Of his CD for the Delos label in 1983 (Bejun DE 3019), Leonard Bernstein was moved to comment "It is hard to believe the richness and maturity of musical understanding in this adolescent boy." He was also honored by the magazine Stereo Review as the Debut Recording Artist of the Year. After his voice changed, Mehta devoted his musical energies to the cello, both as a soloist and orchestral player, studying with Aldo Parisot at Yale University. Mehta graduated from Yale University with an honors degree in German literature. Concurrently he completed an internship at Delos, where he had recorded as a boy. This led to his working with many great artists as

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Che Puro Ciel: The Rise of Classical Opera

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Down By The Salley Gardens

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Cantata : Yet Can I Hear... (Handel, Bach, Vivaldi...)

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Georg Friedrich Händel : Orlando

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El Maestro Farinelli

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Handel: Orlando

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Handel: Giulio Cesare

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Ombra cara (Airs de Georg Friedrich Händel)

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Cantata: Yet Can I Hear

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"Che Puro Ciel". The Rise of Classical Opera (Johann Christian Bach, Gluck, Hasse, Mozart)

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