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Deborah York (Soprano)

Born: England

The English soprano, Deborah York, graduated from Manchester University with a First Class Honors Degree in music and went on to study at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, with Laura Sarti. She now studies with Janice Chapman.

Deborah York performs and broadcasts regularly with many of Europe's leading groups and orchestras. Her concert performances have included a recital with The King's Consort at the Tonhalle, Zürich; a recital at Wigmore Hall with Michael Chance and Julius Drake, a recital of songs by Igor Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Francis Poulenc with Julius Drake at the 1998 Saintes Festival, Un Viaggio a Roma with Concerto Italiano and Rinaldo Alessandrini, J.S. Bach's Magnificat (BWV 243), Weihnachts-Oratorium (BWV 248) and St. John Passion (BWV 245) with Collegium Vocale Gent and Philippe Herreweghe, J.S. Bach’s St Markus Passion (BWV 247) with Ton Koopman, Messiah with Trevor Pinnock and The English Concert; Purcell's Fairy Queen with Marcus Creed and Freiburger Barockorchester, and Antonio Vivaldi's Laudate Pueri with La Stagione Frankfurt.

Deborah York's operatic roles have included Anne Truelove in I. Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress in the celebrated Cox/Hockney Glyndebourne production for New Israeli Opera; Mirror in Harrison Birtwistle's The Second Mrs Kong for Glyndebourne and Glyndebourne Touring Opera; Emilia in Georg Frideric Handel's Flavio for Opera Theatre Company, Dublin and Covent Garden Festival; Servilia in La Clemenza di Tito for Glyndebourne Touring Opera; Barbarina (Figaro) and Giannetta (L'Elisir d'Amore) at Covent Garden, Ismene in Georg Philipp Telemann's Orfeus and Iris in G.F. Handel's Semele, both with René Jacobs at the Berlin Staatsoper, and Euridice in Monteverdi's Orfeo at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich.

Deborah York has established a reputation as one of the finest baroque singers and performs regularly with many of Europe’s leading baroque ensembles. She recently sang Bellezza in G.F. Handel’s Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno with Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre, as well as solo cantatas by J.S. Bach and Scarlatti with Freiburger Barockorchester and with Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin.

Also much in demand in classical repertoire, Deborah York sang W.A. Mozart’s Requiem with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra last season and Haydn’s Harmoniemesse and Felix Mendelssohn’s concert aria Infelice with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Thomas Hengelbrock. In 2004/05, she sings W.A. Mozart’s C minor Mass with the Orquesta Nacional de Madrid under Lorenzo Ramos, J.S. Bach’s b minor Mass (BWV 232) with the Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa, and W.A. Mozart’s Davidde Penitente with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Ton Koopman.

Deborah York has performed at Covent Garden, Glyndebourne, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Sydney Opera House and Tel Aviv Opera in operas by Monteverdi, W.A. Mozart, Gluck, Benjamin Britten, G.F. Handel, I. Stravinsky and Donizetti. She sang Almirena in G.F. Handel’s Rinaldo opposite David Daniels, recorded live for DVD from the Bayerische Staatsoper, and last season (2004) created the role of ‘Lucia’ in Deborah Warner's new production in Munich of B. Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia, to the highest critical acclaim.

Opera appearances this year include Belinda in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas at the Berliner Staatsoper, in Luxembourg and in Montpellier, Anne Truelove in I. Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress at the Semperoper in Dresden and Amour in Gluck’s Orphee and Oberto in G.F. Handel's Alcina at the Bayerische Staatsoper. Deborah will return to Munich in 2005-2006 to create the role of Dorinda in Munich for David Alden’s new production of Orlando.

In 2003 Deborah York gave a recital at the Moscow Easter Festival with pianist Mark Lawson, performing works by J.S. Bach, I. Stravinsky, Purcell and Percy Grainger, and held a master-class at the Moscow Conservatoire.

Last year (2004), she formed the 'amritaensemble' with a group of fellow musicians to explore more fully the Baroque solo cantata repertoire for soprano in an intimate chamber music setting. Their performance of J.S. Bach's cantatas Non sa che sia dolore (BWV 209) and Ich habe genug (BWV 82) were broadcast for Dutch radio live from the Amsterdam Bach Festival 2004.

Her extensive discography includes cantatas by J.S. Bach with Philippe Herreweghe for Harmonia Mundi and with Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. With the Gabrieli Consort she has recorded the one-to-a-part Matthew Passion (BWV 244), for Deutsche Grammophon, and in 2000 she received a Grammy for I. Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress (Anne Truelove), also recorded for DG, with the London Symphony Orchestra and John Eliot Gardiner. Her latest recording is J.S. Bach’s Lutheran Mass BWV 236 with Ton Koopman and Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra.


Sources:
Hyperion Website
IMG Artists Website (February 2005)
Contributed by
Galina Kolomietz (February 2001) Website & Aryeh Oron (April 2005)

Deborah York: Short Biography | General Discussions

Recordings of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works

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Works

Ivor Bolton

Soprano

G.F. Handel: Opera Alcina, HWV 34 [Oberto]

Philippe Herreweghe

Soprano

BWV 8, BWV 29, BWV 119 [1st recording], BWV 120 [1st recording], BWV 138 [2nd]

Ton Koopman

Soprano

BWV 1, BWV 28, BWV 38, BWV 42, BWV 62, BWV 68, BWV 74, BWV 85, BWV 92, BWV 93, BWV 96, BWV 122, BWV 133, BWV 183
DVD:
BWV 10, BWV 243a, BWV 247

Jörg Zwicker

Soprano

[C-1] (2007, CD): Almirante - Opera in 3 acts with music by J.S. Bach & other Baroque composers: Arias-Duets BWV 124/Mvt. 5, BWV 184/Mvt. 2

Paul McCreesh

Soprano

BWV 244

Links to other Sites

ASV: Deborah York
Deborah Yorh (Hans Ulrich Schmid) [German]
Kankarjev Dom – Season 2000/2001
Biographie de Deborah York avec gold-music.com [French]
Deborah York (JRP Dynu) [French]
Deborah York - Soprano (IMG Artists)


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