Paul Appleby, Andrew Garland Will Join Julia Bullock in VOCE: RISING OPERA STARS IN RECITAL

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Joseph Kaiser will no longer be participating in the Sunday, September 21st performance of Voce: Rising Opera Stars in Recital. Paul Appleby (tenor) and Andrew Garland (baritone) will be joining Julia Bullock (soprano) and pianist, Steven Blier for the afternoon featuring French and American repertories.

On Sunday, September 3, Steven Blier, Artistic Director of the New York Festival of Song (NYFOS) will present an afternoon with three powerhouse musicians, Julia Bullock (soprano), Paul Appleby (tenor) and Andrew Garland (baritone). Julia Bullock, Winner of the 2014 Naumburg International Vocal Competition, has performed the title role in Massenet's "Cendrillon" with the Juilliard Opera, as well as Janá?ek's "The Cunning Little Vixen," both to rave reviews, is described by the New York Times as an "impressive, fast-rising soprano... posed for a significant career." Admired for his interpretive depth, vocal strength, and range of expressivity, rising star tenor Paul Appleby is one of the sought-after voices of his generation. Considered an exciting and charismatic presence on the world's leading concert, recital, and opera stages, Appleby recently graduated from the Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program and received the 2012 Leonore Annenberg Fellowship in the Performing and Visual Arts. Andrew Garland (baritone) has been saluted by The New York Times as having a "distinctly American presence" with a "big voice" who is "an able and comfortable performer, and a sincere one," and by Opera News as having "coloratura [which] bordered on the phenomenal as he dashed through the music's intricacies with his warm baritone, offering plenty of elegance and glamour in his smooth acting."

Ticket prices for Voce: Rising Opera Stars in Recital at Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University cost $39. The performance will take place on Sunday, September 21 at 3pm.

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All performances take place at Schimmel Center at Pace University located at 3 Spruce Street between Park Row and Gold Street in downtown Manhattan.

JULIA BULLOCK (soprano) has been hailed as an? "impressive, fast-rising soprano . . . poised for a significant career" (The New York Times)?. Winner of the 2014 Naumburg International Vocal Competition, her busy 2014-2015 season begins with a performance of Delage's Quatres poèmes hindous with the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra and a recital at Napa's Festival del Sole, as well as a return to the Marlboro Music Festival. She performs recitals and educational outreach programs at the University of Florida Performing Arts, Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center, the Levine School of Music, and Music for Youth, as well as recitals at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, San Francisco Performances, Rockefeller University, the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University, and Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concerts. She reprises the title role in Henry Purcell's The Indian Queen, directed by Peter Sellars at the Perm Opera House and the Diaghilev Festival, and at English National Opera later this season. She was acclaimed for her performance of the role last season in Perm and at the Teatro Real in Madrid. Ms. Bullock has performed the title role in Massenet's Cendrillon with the Juilliard Opera, as well as Janá?ek's The Cunning Little Vixen. Ms. Bullock has toured South America as "Pamina" in Peter Brook's award-winning A Magic Flute; and toured China, singing with the Bard Music Festival Orchestra. Other opera credits include Le Nozze di Figaro, The Medium, and L'Enfant et les Sortilèges. She made her San Francisco Symphony debut last season in West Side Story in Concert. Ms. Bullock has performed contemporary works at the Ojai Music Festival and the MUSIC ALIVE! Series; collaborated with early music ensembles, including the Clarion Music Society; and explored lesser-known repertoire with the American Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Delage's Quartre poèmes hindous. She has also appeared with the New York Festival of Song at Caramoor, with the Cecilia Chorus and Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, and with the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society at the Kimmel Center. Winner of the 2012 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, Ms. Bullock made her recital debuts at Merkin Concert Hall and the Kennedy Center to critical acclaim. She holds the Lindemann Vocal Chair of Young Concert Artists. Her management is also supported by the Barbara Forester Austin Fund for Art Song. From 2003 to 2005, Ms. Bullock participated in the Artists-in-Training program with the Opera Theater of St. Louis, and graduated with the prestigious Marielle Hubner Award. She earned her Bachelor's degree from the Eastman School of Music, and her master's degree at Bard College's Graduate Vocal Arts Program, where she was the first recipient of the Mimi Levitt Scholarship, and won Bard College's 2010 Concerto Competition. She is currently pursuing an Artist Diploma at The Juilliard School, working with Edith Bers.

PAUL APPLEBY (tenor). Admired for his interpretive depth, vocal strength, and range of expressivity, rising star tenor Paul Appleby is one of the sought-after voices of his generation. Considered an exciting and charismatic presence on the world's leading concert, recital, and opera stages, Appleby recently graduated from the Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program and received the 2012 Leonore Annenberg Fellowship in the Performing and Visual Arts. Engagements of note during the coming season include Mr. Appleby's return to the Metropolitan Opera as "David" in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and as the lead role of "Tom Rakewell" in Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress. The tenor makes his company debut singing "Don Ottavio" in the San Diego Opera's production of Don Giovanni, and joins joins the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center on tour in a program of Johannes Brahms and Robert Schumann at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in St. Paul, Minnesota. Recent performance highlights include the lead role of "Brian" in the Metropolitan Opera's production of Nico Muhly's Two Boys, and "Ferrando" in Mozart's Così fan tutte with Oper Frankfurt. Company debuts include the Santa Fe Opera as "Fritz" in Offenbach's The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein, Mozart's Così fan tutte with the Canadian Opera Company, and "Tamino" in Mozart's The Magic Flute at the Washington National Opera. Concert appearances include works by Benjamin Britten at Carnegie Hall and a joint recital with baritone Joshua Hopkins and pianist Natalia Katyukova presented by the Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Past highlights with the Metropolitan Opera include singing the "Chevalier de la Force" in Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites, "Hylas" in Les Troyensconducted, "Demetrius" in The Enchanted Island, and "Brighella" in Ariadne auf Naxos. Additional debuts of note include performances at Boston Lyric Opera in Così fan tutte and a European operatic debut as "Tom Rakewell" in The Rake's Progress (Oper Frankfurt). He sang "Agenore" in Il Re Pastore (Opera Theatre of St. Louis), "Lysander" in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Wolf Trap Opera), and "Gomatz" in Zaïde (Wolf Trap Opera and Carnegie Hall). Symphonic appearances include performances with the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, the Wolfegg Festival, and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Passionate about the art of song, the tenor has performed recitals with Steven Blier and the New York Festival of Song, at the Kennedy Center under the auspices of the Vocal Arts Society, for the Marilyn Horne Foundation, the Aspen Music Festival, the Caramoor Festival, Music@Menlo, the Judith Raskin memorial concert, the Joy in Singing Foundation, The Pace Series in New York, and A Prairie Home Companion. He made his Lincoln Center recital debut at Alice Tully Hall accompanied by Brian Zeger offering Schubert's Die Schöne Müllerin. In addition to the 2012 Leonore Annenberg Fellowship in the Performing and Visual Arts, Mr. Appleby has been recognized with the 2012 Top Prize by the Gerda Lissner Foundation, 2012 Martin E. Segal Award from Lincoln Center, 2011 Richard Tucker Career Grant and George London Foundation Award, and was a National Winner of the 2009 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. A recipient of an Artist Diploma in Opera Studies at The Juilliard School, he has also received a Master's Degree from Juilliard and a Bachelor's Degree in English Literature and in Music from the University of Notre Dame.

ANDREW GARLAND (baritone) has been saluted by The New York Times as having a "distinctly American presence" with a "big voice" who is "an able and comfortable performer, and a sincere one," and by Opera News as having "coloratura [which] bordered on the phenomenal as he dashed through the music's intricacies with his warm baritone, offering plenty of elegance and glamour in his smooth acting." In February 2013, he released his fourth commercial CD: American Portraits on the GPR Label with pianist Donna Loewy. Garland's engagements on the opera stage during the 2013-2014 season included "Papageno" in The Magic Flute (Boston Lyric Opera) and a double bill of "Silvio" in Pagliacci and Carmina Burana (Hawaii Opera Theatre). Concert performances include Carnegie Hall, Handel's Messiah with Colorado Bach Ensemble, several concerts with Boston Baroque, the Lyric Opera of San Antonio, the Annapolis Opera, the Atlanta Opera, Arizona Opera, Opera New Jersey, the Knoxville Opera, New Jersey Symphony, as well as recitals across the United States including with the Tuesday Music Club in San Antonio, TX, Lafayette College, the Cleveland Art Song Festival with Warren Jones, Carmina Burana with the Quad Cities Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, and Boston Chorus Pro Musica. Previous credits include the title role in Don Giovanni, "Schaunard" in La Boheme, "Count Almaviva" in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, "Dandini" in La Cenerentola, "Guglielmo" in Cosi Fan Tutte, "Mercutio" in Romeo et Juliette, "Schaunard" in La Boheme, "Ping" in Turnadot, "Starveling" in A Midsummer Night's Dream, "Figaro" in IL Barbiere di Siviglia, and "Young Galileo" in Galileo Galilei. In addition, Garland has released a CD of new songs titled American Portraits (GPR records). Garland is best known for his highly communicative style of singing. Equally at home in opera, concert and recital, he brings to each genre a powerful voice and extremely sensitive delivery. Mr. Garland is the winner of the Lavinia Jensen Competiton, Washington International Music Competition, American Traditions Competition, NATSAA Competition, the William C. Byrd Competition, the Opera Columbus Competition, NATS New England competition and was a prize winner in the Jose Iturbi and Montreal International Music Competitions and McCammon, Gerda Lissner and Palm Beach Opera competitions. Mr. Garland is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. His teachers and coaches have included Penelope Bitzas, William McGraw, Paulina Stark, Jon Humphrey, Oren Brown, Elizabeth Mannion, Martin Katz, Donna Loewy, Kenneth Griffiths and Terry Lusk.

Steven Blier is the Artistic Director of the New York Festival of Song (NYFOS), which he co-founded in 1988 with Michael Barrett. Since the festival's inception, he has programmed, performed, translated, and annotated more than 140 vocal recitals with repertoire spanning the entire range of American song, art song from Shubert to Szymanowski, and popular song from early vaudeville to Lennon-McCartney. NYFOS has also made in-depth explorations of music from Spain, Latin America, Scandinavia, and Russia. New York Magazine gave NYFOS its award for Best Classical Programming, while Opera News proclaimed Blier "the coolest dude in town." Mr. Blier enjoys an eminent career as an accompanist and vocal coach. His recital Partners have included Renee Fleming, Cecilia Bartoli, Samuel Ramey, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Susan Graham, Jessye Normal, and Jose van Dam, in venues ranging from Carnegie Hall to La Scala. He is also on the faculty of The Julliard School and has been active in encouraging young recitalists at summer programs, including the Wolf Trap Opera Company, Santa Fe Opera, and the San Francisco Opera Center. Many of his former students, including Stephanie Blythe, Joseph Kaiser, Sasha Cooke, Paul Appleby, Dina Kuznetsova, Corinne Winters, and Kate Lindsey, have gone on to be valued recital colleagues and sought-after stars on the opera and concert stage. In keeping the traditions of American music alive, he has brought back to the stage many of the rarely heard songs of George Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Kurt Weill, and Cole Porter. He has also played ragtime, blues, and stride piano evenings with John Musto. A champion of American art song, he has premiered works of John Corigliano, Paul Moravec, Ned Rorem, William Bolcom, Mark Adamo, John Musto, Richard Danielpour, Tobias Picker, Robert Beaser, Lowell liebermann, Harold Meltzer, and Lee Hoiby, many of which were commissioned by NYFOS. Mr. Blier's extensive discography included the premiere recording of Leonard Bernstein's Arias and Barcarolles (Koch International), which won a Grammy Award. His most recent releases are Spanish Love Songs (Bridge Records), recorded live at the Caramoor International Music Festival with Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Joseph Kaiser, and Michael Barrett; the world premiere recording of Bastianello (John Musto) and Lucrezia (William Bolcom), a double bill of one-act comic operas set to librettos by Mark Campbell; and his latest recording, Quiet Please, an album of jazz standards with vocalist Darius de Haas. His writings on opera have been featuring in Opera News and the Yale Review. A native New Yorker, he received a Bachelor's Degree with Honors in English Literature at Yale University, where he studied piano with Alexander Farkas. He completed his musical studies in New York with Martin Isepp and Paul Jacobs.

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