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Benjamin Sosland (Tenor)

Born: USA

The American tenor and music pedagogue, Benjamin Sosland, holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music and Juilliard School of Music in New York (Master of Music 2003; DMA 2008).

Benjamin Sosland he is the assistant dean for the Kovner Fellowship and a member of the Graduate Studies faculty at Julliard. He holds several artistic and administrative positions that reflect his wide-ranging musical curiosity. As the founding administrative director of Juilliard Historical Performance, he has been responsible for creating, implementing, and overseeing Juilliard’s newest degree program. Under his leadership, the department has established itself as one of the leading programs of its kind, combining a rigorous curriculum with frequent performances in the USA and abroad. He has helped develop key partnerships with Les Arts Florissants, The English Concert, the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, and with the Utrecht Early Music Festival, where Juilliard was the first-ever conservatory in residence.

Benjamin Sosland is a frequent preconcert lecturer at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center and he has adjudicated at the Van Wassaenar International Early Music Competition. He has been the research associate and program editor for the New York Festival of Song and a score consultant for the Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series of satellite transmissions for seven seasons.

Trained as a tenor, Benjamin Sosland has performed with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke's, Gotham Chamber Opera, and American Opera Projects, and has been the guest of several summer music festivals, including the Marlboro Music Festival, the Ravinia Festival’s Steans Institute for Young Artists, and the Aspen and Bowdoin Summer Music Festivals. He has taught courses on such topics as entrepreneurship for musicians, the dramatic works of Monteverdi, Paris between the wars, and the literary operas of Benjamin Britten.

Source: The Juilliard School Website
Contributed by
Aryeh Oron (June 2018)

Recordings of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works

Conductor

As

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Rick Erickson

Tenor

Member of The Holy Trinity Bach Choir:
[C-1] (1999): Selections from BWV 79, BWV 147, BWV 245, BWV 61, BWV 140, BWV 243a, BWV 1, BWV 22, BWV 227, BWV 75, BWV 437, BWV 129, BWV 232, BWV 4, BWV 118 [All sung in English]

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Sosland, Benjamin at The Juilliard School


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