|
The American soprano, Danielle Reutter-Harrah (formerly Danielle Sampson), obtained her her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music (2003-2007); and her Master of Music degree from San Francisco Conservatory of Music (2009-2011).
Danielle Sampson is an avid performer of Baroque, classical, and contemporary music. She is known for her “youthful and light timbre” (Classical Voice North America) and “a compassionate calm and a warm, glowing tone” (Boston Globe). She has appeared with Pacific MusicWorks, Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Opera, California Bach Society, Early Music Vancouver, Boston Early Music Festival, American Bach Soloists (Director: Jeffrey Thomas), Stanford Chorale, San Francisco Bach Choir, Black Box Baroque, St. Martin's Chamber Choir, Amaranth Quartet, Guerrilla Composers Guild, Prodigal Opera Productions, and Alabama Symphony. She is a founding member of the duo Jarring Sounds with guitarist/theorbist/lutenist Adam Cockerham, and they released a self titled album in 2012 of music by Guédron, Boësset, Bataille, Monteverdi, Purcell, Benjamin Britten, and Goss. She also appears on a 2015 recording of Haydn’s Nelson Mass with the Stanford Chorale and the Lawrence String Quartet.
In 2014 Danielle Sampson performed the soprano chorales in Boston Early Music Festival’s production of J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion (BWV 244), in which she "displayed great range, from a meaty middle to subtle pianos in the high register..." (Classical Voice North America). In March she performed a tour of Charpentier’s La Couronne de Fleurs and La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers, George Frideric Handel’s Messiah with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, and J.S. Bach’s Magnificat (BWV 243) with the American Bach Soloists.
In the summer of 2015 Danielle Sampson sang the part of the Sorceress in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with Early Music Vancouver, who Vancouver Classical Music called “a delight, interacting with the witches in a manner born.” She performed the role of Melanto in Monteverdi’s Ulisse for the 2015 Boston Early Music Festival, which was “charmingly portrayed” (Boston Globe).
In 2016, Danielle Sampson appeared with the Stanford Chorale for W.A. Mozart's C Minor Mass, Black Box Baroque as Ruggiero in G.F. Handel's Alcina, and the bay area's Amaranth Quartet for a performance of new and old works for string quartet and voice, as well as contemporary pieces arranged by Danielle Sampson and members of the quartet. In June she performed in the Berkeley Early Music Festival with Nash Baroque Ensemble, Liaison Baroque Ensemble, and Jarring Sounds. Most recently she performed in J.S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion (BWV 244) with the California Bach Choir, J.S. Bach's Magnificat (BWV 243) with the Northwest Baroque Masterworks, and a concert of Old and New Spain with Pacific MusicWorks.
Highlights of her last concert season (2017-2018) included a tour of Charpentier’s La Couronne de Fleurs and La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers, G.F. Handel’s Messiah with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, and J.S. Bach’s Magnificat (BWV 243) with the American Bach Soloists. In the next season (2018-2019) she appeared with the Boston Early Music Festival, Pacific MusicWorks, and Rogue Valley Symphony Orchestra, and she sang the role of Ariodante with San Francisco’s Black Box Baroque in March. She currently a freelalnce musician in Seattle and resides in Edmonds, Washington. |
