JULIANA GONDEK, a native of Pasadena, California, has an international operatic,
symphonic, chamber, recital, and recording career, noteworthy for her interpretations of Mozart, Baroque, bel
canto, and contemporary repertoire. She has performed with
conductors such as Herbert von Karajan, Leonard Bernstein, James
Levine, Carlos Kleiber, and Robert Shaw, in leading roles at
the Metropolitan Opera, Netherlands Opera, Scottish Opera, San
Francisco, Houston, New York City, Dallas, Seattle, Miami, St.
Louis, Utah, and Baltimore Operas. She has sung at the Edinburgh
Festival, Göttingen and Halle Handel Festivals, Antibe's
Bel Canto Festival, Pacific Music Festival (Sapporo, Japan), Lincoln Center's Mostly
Mozart Festival, and the Avignon,
Marlboro, Caramoor, Newport, Bowdoin, and Bard Festivals.
She has created starring roles
in several world-premiere operas, such as: "Ela" in David Carlson's Dreamkeepers,
the triple role of "Dianne Feinstein/Harvey's Mama/Hooker" in Stewart
Wallace/Michael Korie's Harvey Milk, the title role
in Stewart Wallace/Michael Korie's Hopper's Wife, "Sabina" in David Diamond's The Noblest Game, and "Gertrude Stein"
in Jonathan Sheffer's Blood on the Dining Room Floor. She
has also performed the leading soprano roles in Leonard Bernstein's
A Quiet Place and Bright Sheng's The Song of Majnun,
and is a frequent soloist with major North American and European
orchestras.
Her discography
includes recordings of Harvey Milk on the
Teldec label, Handel operas Ottone, Radamisto,
Giustino, and Ariodante (winner of the 1996 Gramophone
Record of the Year Award) on the Harmonia Mundi label, Mozart's
Exsultate jubilate on Sonoris, vocal chamber music
on Orion (winner of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation Prize), and
"Live from the Met" telecast and videodisc recording
of Die Zauberflöte with the Metropolitan Opera. Her most
recent recordings include Bright Sheng's Songs of the Sung Dynasty with
the Hong Kong Philharmonic on Naxos, and Szymanowski songs on Channel
Classics. Her feature film debut was as "The Opera Diva" in the
ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre's production of Willa Cather's The Song of
the Lark.
She has presented song
recitals in the world's most renowned concert halls, including Geneva's Grand
Theater, Venice's Teatro La Fenice, Lucerne's Festival Hall,
Carnegie Recital Hall, Sapporo's Kitara Concert Hall, Boston's Jordan Hall, Pittsburgh's Frick
Museum, and Los Angeles's Ambassador Auditorium. She won back-to-back
gold medals in the Geneva and the Barcelona International Singing
Competitions and the National Endowment for the Arts Solo Recitalist
Award for her concert series The Art of Polish Song. She holds Bachelor
and Master of Music degrees magna cum laude from the University of Southern
California, and is currently Professor of Voice and Opera Studies at the
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
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