Voice 2022 – ARIA DIVISION and Art Song Division
Laureate (Art Song Division) – Lois Marshall Third Prize
Semifinalist (Aria Division)
Baritone
2022: American baritone Bryan Murray is ready to show his skills in recital in this year’s Concours. In recent years, the New York-born Murray has sung at the Venice Biennale and as far as Tokyo’s Bunka Kaikan concert hall. Prior to the shutdown, Bryan had a contract with the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where he racked up small roles in Verdi’s Rigoletto, Bizet’s Carmen, and Rossini’s The Barber of Seville.
A graduate of the Yale School of Music, Murray has excelled in competition. In 2019 he took first prize in the Talents of the World competition and the grand prize in the NYIOP International Vocal Competition.
Training
2016-2018: Yale University, Master of Musical Arts degree in Opera Performance
2013-2016: Suny Purchase College, Artist Diploma and Master of Music degree
Principal Teachers
- Bonnie Hamilton, 2015-present
- Richard Cross, 2016-2018
- Jacque Trussel, 2013-2015
- John Fiorito, 2008–2013
Prizes and Awards
- 2019: Grand Prize, Premiere Opera Foundation / NYIOP International Vocal Competition
- 2019: First Prize, Talents of the World Inc. International Voice Competition,
- 2019: Third Prize, Mirjam Helin International Singing Competition
- 2018: Bell Investment Encouragement Grant, James Toland Vocal Arts
- 2018: Björn Eklund Scholarship, The Opera Foundation
- 2017: Encouragement Grant, Premiere Opera International Voice Competition
- 2017: Sachi Liebergesell Award, Opera Index Competition
- 2016: First Prize, Heida Hermann’s International Voice Competition
Programme – Aria Division
FIRST ROUND
RUGGERO LEONCAVALLO E fra quest’ansie in eterno vivrai?
(Pagliacci)
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Papagena Papagena Papagena!
(Die Zauberflöte)
ERICH KORNGOLD Mein Sehnen, mein Wähnen
(Die tote Stadt)
SEMIFINAL
CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK Dieux qui me poursuivez
(Iphigénie en Tauride)
GUSTAV MAHLER Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen
(Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
JULES MASSENET Vision fugitive (Hérodiade)
FINAL
HENRI DUPARC Phidylé
ERICH KORNGOLD Mein Sehnen, mein Wähnen
(Die tote Stadt)
RUGGERO LEONCAVALLO Si può?… si può?
(Pagliacci)
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Programme – Art Song Division
FIRST ROUND
GABRIEL FAURÉ Les berceaux
(Trois chansons, Op. 23)
FRANZ SCHUBERT Der Neugierige
(Die schöne Müllerin, D. 795)
SAMUEL BARBER Rain Has Fallen • Sleep Now • I Hear An Army
(Three Songs, Op. 10)
SEMI FINAL
HENRI DUPARC Phidylé
ROBERT SCHUMANN In der Fremde • Intermezzo • Waldesgrespräch • Die Stille • Mondnacht
(Liederkreis, Op. 39)
MATTHEW EMERY Requiescat
(Three Songs)
MAURICE RAVEL Chanson Romanesque • Chanson épique • Chanson à boire
(Don Quichotte à Dulcinée)
FINAL
GUSTAV MAHLER Ich ging mit Lust • Ablösung im Sommer • Zu Straßburg auf der Schanz
(Lieder und Gesänge aus der Jugenkeit)
GUSTAV MAHLER Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen • Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?
(Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
SERGEI RACHMANINOV Oh No, I Beg You, Forsake Me Not! • Morning • In the Silence of the Secret Night • Do Not Sing, My Beauty
(6 Romances, Op. 4)
LEE HOIBY Beginning My Studies • I Was There • A Clear Midnight • O Captain! My Captain! • Joy, Shipmate, Joy!
(I Was There : Five Poems of Walt Whitman, Op. 49)
Pianist: Olivier Godin
Bryan Murray is generously sponsored by Gemma Ampleman et Gilles Marcotte
