GREGORY TURAY is winner of the 2000 Richard Tucker Award.
American tenor GREGORY TURAY has been described by the London Times
as "one of the brightest natural talents to have emerged from the US
in recent years."
This past summer, Mr. Turay made his debut with the Indianapolis Symphony
in Haydn's The Creation. During the 2002-2003 season, he returns
to the Metropolitan Opera as Rodolpho in William Bolcom's A View
from the Bridge, the role he created for the opera's world premiere
at Lyric Opera of Chicago in 1999, and which also served as his debut
there. He will also be seen in the Metropolitan Opera's opening night
gala and in its new production of Les Troyens.
The 2001/2002 season saw Mr. Turay’s returns to Lyric Opera of
Chicago as Sam Kaplan in Weill’s Street Scene, the San
Francisco Opera as Camille de Rosillon in The Merry Widow,
and the Metropolitan Opera as Fenton in Falstaff, conducted
by James Levine. He also made his Saito Kinen Festival debut as Don
Ottavio in Don Giovanni under the baton of Seiji Ozawa. On
the concert stage, he made his debut with the Cleveland Orchestra and
Christoph von Dohnányi in Berlioz’s Te Deum.
An alumnus of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artists
Development Program, Mr. Turay has built a strong relationship with
the company. He made his debut there as Brighella in Ariadne auf
Naxos, conducted by James Levine. He has since appeared as Don
Ottavio, Camille de Rosillon and Ferrando in Cosi fan tutte.
Mr. Turay’s other opera engagements have included his San Francisco
Opera debut as Don Ottavio, his European debut at the Welsh National
Opera as Ferrando, his Deutsche Oper debut as Tamino in Die Zauberflöte,
his Santa Fe Opera debut as Fenton, the Italian Tenor in Der Rosenkavalier
and Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore at Boston Lyric
Opera; Nadir in Les pêcheurs de perles, the title role
in Orfeo and Ernesto in Don Pasquale at the Opera Theatre of
Saint Louis; and Fenton, Paolino in Il Matrimonio Segreto,
and Zeferino in Il viaggio a Reims at the Wolf Trap Opera Festival.
On the concert platform, Mr. Turay’s appearances have included
a televised gala honoring Seiji Ozawa and Haydn’s The Creation
with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the latter under the baton of James
Levine; Handel’s Messiah with the San Francisco Symphony; Mozart’s
Coronation Mass at the Mostly Mozart Festival; Fenton in Act III of
Falstaff at the Tanglewood Festival, under the baton of Seiji
Ozawa; Mozart’s Mass K. 139 at the Salzburg Festival;
Berlioz’ Requiem at the opening night of the 1998 Edinburgh
Festival, conducted by Donald Runnicles; Nadir in a concert version
of Les pêcheurs de perles with the Washington Concert
Opera; and a “Rising Stars” concert at the Ravinia Festival.
Mr. Turay’s numerous recital engagements have included appearances
under the auspices of the Marilyn Horne Foundation in New York and Palm
Springs; the 92nd Street Y, under the auspices of Young Concert Artists;
at the Edinburgh Festival, the Vocal Arts Society in Washington DC,
the University of Georgia, Athens; Wolf Trap, Western Michigan University,
Lexington, KY; Brevard, NC; Aiken, SC; and at the Danny Kaye Playhouse
in New York. He also sang Brahms’ Liebeslieder Waltzes
with pianists James Levine and Ken Noda in Weill Recital Hall in New
York, and appeared in concert at Alice Tully sponsored by Young Concert
Artists.
In addition to his 1998 ARIA Award, Mr. Turay also won the Metropolitan
Opera National Council Auditions in 1995 at the age of 21, as well as
the 1996 Young Concert Artists International Auditions and the 2000
Richard Tucker Award. His other awards include a George London Foundation
award, a Richard Tucker Foundation Career Grant, the Richard Gaddes
Award from the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, first prize in both the
D’Angelo Young Artists and Catherine E. Pope Competitions, and
the Orchestra New England Soloist Prize.
Mr. Turay is a graduate of the University of Kentucky. He currently
studies with Dr. Robert White, Jr.
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