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Juliana Gondek has performed with over 120 orchestras and opera companies throughout North America, Europe, and Asia, in collaboration with such legendary musicians as Aaron Copland, Herbert von Karajan, Leonard Bernstein, Carlos Kleiber, James Levine, and Yehudi Menuhin.
Hailed internationally as a leading interpreter of Baroque, Mozart, Italian bel canto, and contemporary music, she has sung such leading roles as Mimi, Micaela, Hoffmann’s four heroines, Verdi’s Giovanna d’Arco, Bellini’s Beatrice di Tenda, Mozart’s Vitellia, Countess, Donna Elvira, Pamina, Aspasia, and Fiordiligi, and a dozen Handel roles at the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, New York City Opera, Scottish Opera, Netherlands Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Seattle Opera, and the opera companies of Dallas, St. Louis, Miami, Baltimore, San Diego, Hawaii, Utah, and the Kennedy Center.
Engagements at the Salzburg and Edinburgh Festivals, the Göttingen and Halle Handel Festivals, Japans' Pacific Music Festival, Antibe’s Bel Canto Festival, Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival, and the Avignon, Aldeburgh, Marlboro, Caramoor, Bard, Newport, Bowdoin, and Santa Fe Music Festivals have made her an audience favorite worldwide.
Gondek is a frequent soloist with major orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, and the Netherlands Radio Symphony and has recorded more than 20 commercial CDs – 5 winning international prizes - for such labels as Deutsche Grammophon, Harmonia Mundi, Teldec, Naxos, and Channel Classics. She has sung dozens of premieres of roles written for her by some of the world’s most celebrated composers.
Formerly a professional violinist, Ms. Gondek gained the international spotlight by winning the “Prix Patek Philippe” and back-to-back Gold Medals in the Geneva International Singing Competition and the Barcelona “Francisco Vinas” International Opera Competition. She chairs the Division of Voice Studies at UCLA, and maintains an active private studio in Los Angeles. She frequently judges national and international competitions, teaches master classes at top music schools and conservatories worldwide, and serves as Visiting Artist at international conservatories and training programs in the U.S., Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Japan. www.julianagondek.org.
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