Dawn Upshaw

about

Dawn Upshaw (born July 17, 1960 in Nashville, Tennessee) is a world-renowned American soprano described as "one of the most consequential performers of our time" by the Los Angeles Times. The recipient of several Grammy Award and Edison Prize-winning discs, Upshaw is at home both in opera and art song, and in repertoire from Baroque to contemporary. Many composers, including John Harbison and Kaija Saariaho, have written for her, and her artistic achievements are extensive. On September 25, 2007 she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant." She began her vocal career as a talented high school singer in Park Forest, Illinois. Upshaw received a B.A. in 1982 from Illinois Wesleyan University and went on to study voice with Ellen Faull at the Manhattan School of Music in New York, earning her M.A. in 1984. She also attended courses given by Jan DeGaetani at the Aspen (Colorado) Music School. She was a winner of the Young Concert Artists 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 over 300 appearances at the Metropolitan Opera. Upshaw came to international fame with her million-selling recording (1993), with David Zinman, of the hauntingly powerful Symphony No 3 by Henryk Górecki, known as the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs (Symfonia pieśni żałosnych). In the past decade she has premiered more than 25 new works and has embraced several

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Golijov: Ayre / Berio: Folksongs

Angels Hide Their Faces: Dawn Upshaw Sings Bach and Purcell

I Wish It So

Knoxville: Summer Of 1915

Voices of Light

The Girl With Orange Lips

Canteloube : Chants d'Auvergne [Complete]

The World So Wide

Górecki: Symphony No. 3

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Goethe Lieder

Dawn Upshaw Sings Rodgers & Hart

Golijov: Oceana, Tenebrae, 3 Songs

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