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The Russian born American soprano, Yulia Van Doren, immigrated with her mother to the USA in 1984 and is now an American citizen. She was raised in the USA in a music-filled household in which she and her seven younger siblings were taught by her Russian mezzo-soprano mother and American jazz pianist father. She obtained her Bachelor of Music degree in Classical Voice from New England Conservatory of Music (spring 2006); and her Master of Music degree from Bard College's Graduate Program of the vocal arts (2008). She is honored to be a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow for New Americans (2007). She has won a number of prizes in competitions, including grand prize in the 2006 International J.S. Bach Vocal Competition, and has the distinction of being the only singer awarded a top prize in all four North American Bach vocal competitions. , She was also a winner of Astral Artists' 2009 National Auditions. As the recipient of a Beebe Grant she spent the 2011-2012 season based in Paris..
Yulia Van Doren is active as an international self-employed singer since September 2006. She has amassed impressive professional engagements, particularly in Baroque music. She has established herself as a rising star of the new generation of Baroque specialists in debuts with the Portland Baroque Orchestra, Seattle Baroque Orchestra, American Bach Soloists, Music of the Baroque and the Vancouver Early Music Festival. In 2007, she made debuts at Carnegie Hall and Tanglewood, as well as her professional operatic debut as Poppea in L’Icoronazione di Poppea with the Early Music Guild of Seattle, to much critical acclaim. Recognized by Opera as "A star-to-be" following her Lincoln Center debut, her debut with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra was acclaimed as a “revelation... a ravishing lyric voice and an ease with vocal ornamentation that turned her into an enchanted songbird” (Toronto Star). For her last minute step-in with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Cleveland Plain Dealer praised Van Doren as an artist of “melting poignancy” and added, “To Van Doren, one could easily have listened for hours.”
A dedicated interpreter of repertoire off the beaten path, career highlights include creating the lead female role in the world premiere of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Orango with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, directed by Peter Sellars and released on Deutsche Grammophon; two Grammy-nominated opera recordings with the Boston Early Music Festival; the modern revival of Monsigny’s opera Le roi et le fermier at Opera de Versailles, Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center (recorded for Naxos) with Opera Lafayette; a tour of George Frideric Handel’s Orlando with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra to the Mostly Mozart, Ravinia and Tanglewood festivals; a leading role in Alessandro Scarlatti’s Tigrane at Opera de Nice; nationally-televised performances at the Cartagena International Music Festival with soprano Dawn Upshaw, an important mentor; and creating a leading role in the world premiere staging of Lera Auerbach's The Blind, an a cappella opera, in the Lincoln Center Festival.
Especially recognized for her work in the Baroque repertoire, Van Doren has performed with the majority of the North American Baroque festivals and orchestras. Other notable debuts and engagements include performances with the Asheville Symphony, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Colorado Symphony, Houston Symphony Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra; Nashville Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra, Pacific Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra; Los Angeles Master Chorale; Washington D.C.’s Folger Consort; Tanglewood Music Festival, Colorado Music Festival; and two trips to the Netherlands for performances with the Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic.
A passionate interpreter of 20th-century and contemporary music, Yulia Van Doren made her European debut singing the Hungarian premiere of Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. She sang two major roles with the Boston Early Music Festival, Belinda in Dido and Aeneas, and Manto in Steffani’s Niobe, and in 2011-2012 made her debut at the Macau International Music Festival, Opéra de Nice, Houston Symphony Orchestra, and Music of the Baroque.
Yulia Van Doren's 2019-2020 season included a return to Boston Baroque for Antonio Vivaldi’s Nula in Mundo Pax sincera, G.F. Handel's Messiah with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra and Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and a program of G.F. Handel and J.S. Bach with American Bach Soloists. She also made her debut with the Phoenix Symphony in G.F. Handel's Messiah. She last appeared with Music of the Baroque in September 2019 in J.S. Bach's Mass in B minor BWV 232. |
