Robert Gardner
Previous Guest Artist, Baritone
American baritone Robert Gardner has appeared with numerous opera houses and symphony orchestras in the U.S., Europe, and Asia including New York City Opera, Washington National Opera, Bavarian National Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Aspen Music Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, Palm Beach Opera, Edmonton Opera, the Munich Philharmonic, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Colorado Symphony, the San Diego, Santa Rosa, New Haven and Kansas City Symphonies, the Northeast Pennsylvania Philharmonic and the Daejeon Symphony in S. Korea. Originally from Denver, Colorado, he has been described as "a superb young artist" by WGBH Radio, the New York Times calls him "robust...impressive...brilliantly effective...the score presented with a proprietary authority," an "electrifying performance" says NPR Sunday Morning Edition. The Hartford Courant hails "a talent of a high order," "his lithe, burnished baritone a consistent pleasure" and the Kansas City Star raves "finally we heard someone sing with intelligence, passion and bravura... unusually gripping."
Robert Gardner is the 2007 winner of the Lili Boulanger Memorial Award, chosen from five worldwide nominees (chiefly composers, conductors and instrumentalists) and by the foundation started in 1936 by famed teacher-pianist-conductor Nadia Boulanger, is considered this year's "musician of exceptional talent and integrity." A 2001 Pro Musicis International Award winner, he is also the winner of the 1999 William Matheus Sullivan Foundation Award, the 2000 Gerda Lissner Award, and the 2000 Denver Lyric Opera Guild Competition. He trained at Yale Opera of the Yale University School of Music and participated in young artist programs with Santa Fe Opera, the Bavarian National Opera in Munich, and the Steans Institute for Young Artists at Ravinia in Chicago. He is a member of the Society of American Fight Directors and has choreographed safe, yet effective stage conflicts professionally, and is a professional animal trainer in his spare time.
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