Soloists
Yulia Van Doren
SOPRANO
Soprano Yulia Van Doren’s recent appearances include a tour to the Mostly Mozart, Ravinia, and Tanglewood festivals with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra as Dorinda in Handel’s Orlando, Galatea in Acis and Galatea at China’s Macau International Music Festival with Akademie für alte Musik Berlin, Mereo in Scarlatti’s Tigrane with Opéra de Nice, Betsy in the modern revival of Monsigny’s Le Roi et le fermier with Opera Lafayette, Messiah with the Houston Symphony and Vancouver Chamber Choir, and concerts with the Folger Consort. She also appeared as St. Theresa in Thomson’s Four Saints in Three Acts with the Mark Morris Dance Group at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, in Shostakovich’s Orango with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and in Nielsen’s Symphony No. 3 with the American Symphony Orchestra. She last appeared with Music of the Baroque as soloist in the Mass in B Minor in April 2012.
Other recent highlights include Bach’s Coffee Cantata with the Brentano String Quartet at the 2011 Cartagena International Music Festival and appearances with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Colorado Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, Asheville Symphony, Pacific Symphony, and at the Colorado Music Festival. She premiered a specially commissioned work by Taiwanese composer Angel Lam in her first appearance in Carnegie Hall, and created the role of Bird in David Bruce’s opera A Bird In Your Ear at Bard Conservatory. She made her European debut in the Hungarian premiere of Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Yulia Van Doren appeared in televised performances of the Mass in B Minor with soprano Dawn Upshaw and the City of London Sinfonia. She is featured on several Grammy-nominated recordings with the Boston Early Music Festival. Her performance as Betsy in Monsigny’s Le Roi et le fermier with Opera Lafayette will be recorded for Naxos, and her debut solo recording with the American Bach Soloists will feature music by Bach, Harbison, and Britten.
