11/04/2015
Tuesday, November 10, 2015, at 7pm
JULIA BULLOCK (First Prizewinner, 2014 Vocal Competition) with pianist Renate Rohlfing
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Hailed as “an impressive, fast-rising soprano” (The New York Times) and “opulent and glorious” (Opera News), Julia Bullock will be joined by pianist Renate Rohlfing on Tuesday, November 10 at 7pm to present her concert as First Prizewinner of the 2014 Naumburg Vocal Competition. The concert takes place at The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Tickets start at $25 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Box Office by calling 212.570.3750. Visit www.metmuseum.org/eve…/programs/met-live-arts/julia-bullock….
Julia will be showcasing songs by John Cage, Francis Poulenc, Pierre Revel, Maurice Ravel, and Kurt Weill. She will also be including a set of songs by Gösta Nystroem, Wilhelm Stenhammar and Edvard Grieg, as well as another set of songs including works by Samuel Barber and Henry Cowell.
Julia Bullock, winner of the 2014 Naumburg International Vocal Competition, is also the recipient of a 2015 Leonore Annenberg Arts Fellowship, the 2015 Richard F. Gold Grant from the Shoshana Foundation, and Lincoln Center’s 2015 Martin E. Segal Award. This season she appears as soloist with the New World Symphony and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s; at Carnegie Hall, and the Ojai Music Festival; as well as in Saariaho’s La passion de Simone, directed by Peter Sellars in Berlin.
Naumburg Foundation/Fall Concerts/page three
Julia’s 2014-15 season included performances of Delage’s Quatres poèms hindous with the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra, a recital at Napa’s Festival del Sole, as well as numerous recitals and educational outreach programs at venues such as at the University of Florida Performing Arts, Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center, the Levine School of Music, and Music for Youth, as well as at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, San Francisco Performances, Rockefeller University, the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University, and Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concerts. She was also featured in the New York Festival of Song’s Harlem Renaissance program on tour and at Merkin Concert Hall, as well as in the Mondavi Center’s Rising Stars of Opera. Ms. Bullock reprised the title role in Henry Purcell’s The Indian Queen, directed by Peter Sellars at the Teatro Real, Perm Opera House, and at the English National Opera. This summer, she made her debut with the New York Philharmonic, performing Bernstein’s West Side Story Concert Suite No. 1 with Alan Gilbert and tours with the orchestra in Vail and Santa Barbara. Other notable concerts include a West Side Story performance with the San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas, collaborations with the Clarion Music Society, appearances with the American Symphony Orchestra, the Cecilia Chorus and Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society at the Kimmel Center, and as a winner of the 2012 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, she made her recital debuts at Merkin Concert Hall and The Kennedy Center to critical acclaim.
From 2003 to 2005, Ms. Bullock participated in the Artists-in-Training program with the Opera Theater of St. Louis, and graduated with the prestigious Marielle Hubner Award. She earned her Bachelor’s degree from the Eastman School of Music, and her Master’s degree at Bard College’s Graduate Vocal Arts Program, and her Artist Diploma at the Juilliard School.
Renate Rohlfing, a sought-after vocal accompanist, chamber musician, and orchestral pianist, has performed with some of the world’s leading artists, including James Conlon, Anna Netrebko, Frederica van Stade, Alan Gilbert, and John Adams, among many others. Last season, she served on the music staff, performed in chamber music concerts and as an orchestral pianist in John Adams’ “El Nino” at Spoleto Festival USA. Subsequently she was pianist and coach for Jake Heggie’s workshop of his opera “Great Scott.” In its second season, her critically acclaimed piano trio LONGLEASH performs live on WUOL radio in Kentucky followed by performances at the Trondheim Chamber Music Festival in Norway, and performances throughout the Tri-State area.
Ms. Rohlfing has served on the vocal coaching staff of Bard College and Westminster Choir College. She is a native of Honolulu, Hawaii, and is a graduate of The Juilliard School.
