| Michelle
DeYoung has already established herself as one of the most exciting
artists of her generation.
In the past few seasons, Ms. DeYoung has been seen on the concert platforms
of some of the world’s most illustrious orchestras. She has been
welcomed by such institutions as the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics,
the Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Atlanta and Houston
Symphonies, the Cleveland and Minnesota Orchestras, as well as the BBC
Symphony, the Philharmonia, the Royal Philharmonic, the Bayerische Staatsoper
Orchestra, the Concertgebouworkest, and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
Among the conductors with whom she has worked are Pierre Boulez, Sir
Colin Davis, Stéphane Denève, Christoph von Dohnányi,
Christoph Eschenbach, Jesús López Cobos, Bernard Haitink,
James Levine, Zubin Mehta, Seiji Ozawa, Antonio Pappano, Esa-Pekka Salonen,
Leonard Slatkin, Mariss Jansons and Michael Tilson Thomas.
This past summer, Ms. DeYoung returned to the Concertgebouw for performances
of Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 with Riccardo Chailly in Amsterdam,
the BBC Proms in London, and Lucerne. She also tours Japan with Chailly
and the Concertgebouworkest this fall. Other engagements this season
include more performances of Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 with
the San Francisco Symphony (in San Francisco and Carnegie Hall), the
Cleveland Orchestra, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, a return to the
Minnesota Orchestra for performances of Bernstein’s Symphony
No. 1, “Jeremiah”, and a series of recitals in Pittsburgh,
Calvin College (Grand Rapids, MI), and Berkeley.
Last season, Ms. DeYoung’s concert performances included: Bartok’s
Bluebeard’s Castle with Pierre Boulez and the BBC Symphony
Orchestra at the Proms in London and the Edinburgh Festival; returns
to the Chicago, National and San Francisco Symphonies, the Concertgebouworkest
and the Orchestre de la Monnaie; and her debuts with the Los Angeles
Philharmonic and the St. Louis Symphony. She also performed a series
of recitals in both Europe and the USA.
Other past engagements have included performances of The Dream of
Gerontius for her debut with the New York Philharmonic, the role
of Didon in concert performances of Les Troyens with the London Symphony
Orchestra conducted by Sir Colin Davis, Alexander Nevsky in the televised
70th Birthday Concert of the BBC Symphony conducted by Leonard Slatkin,
La mort de Cléopâtre with the Oslo Philharmonic
in Oslo, Copenhagen and at the BBC Proms; Mahler’s Symphony
No. 3 with the Orchestre de la Monnaie and at the Pacific Music
Festival in Japan; the Verdi Requiem with the Orchestre de
la Monnaie, Oedipus Rex with the National Symphony Orchestra,
Das Lied von der Erde with the Rotterdam Philharmonic, Gurrelieder
at the Ravinia Festival, and a concert performance of Fauré’s
Pénélope at the Edinburgh Festival.
A graduate of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artists
Development Program, Ms. DeYoung most recently made debuts with the
Houston Grand Opera as Venus in Tannhäuser in the fall
of 2001 and at the Glimmerglass Opera during the summer of 2001 in the
title role of Christopher Alden’s critically acclaimed new production
of Britten's The Rape of Lucretia. Other opera engagements
have included her debuts at Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Seattle Opera
as Brangäne in Francesca Zambello’s production of Tristan
und Isolde, Fricka in semi-staged performances of both Das
Rheingold and Die Walküre at the Royal Albert Hall,
London, the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, and on tour at the Concertgebouw
and the Birmingham Symphony Hall; and Jocaste in Robert Wilson’s
production of Oedipus Rex and Gertrude in Hamlet at
the Théâtre du Châtelet.
In recital, Ms. DeYoung has been presented by the San Francisco Symphony’s
“Great Performances Series,” the Théâtre du
Châtelet, Lisbon’s Gulbenkian Foundation, Weill Recital
Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York, the Edinburgh Festival, London’s
Wigmore Hall and Brussels’ La Monnaie.
Ms. DeYoung’s most recent recording, Les Troyens (as
Didon), with Sir Colin Davis and the LSO, won two 2001 Grammys for Best
Classical Album and Best Opera Recording. Her growing discography also
includes Bernstein’s Symphony No. 1, “Jeremiah”
with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Leonard Slatkin for Chandos, Das
klagende Lied with the San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas
for BMG, Mahler’s Symphony No 3 with the Cincinnati Symphony and
Jesús López Cobos for Telarc, and Das Lied von der
Erde with the Minnesota Orchestra for Reference Recordings. Her
first solo disc was released on the EMI label in spring 1999.
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