About this Artist
First Prize winner in the 2018 Montreal International Voice Competition (Art Song) and the Lotte Lenya Competition, baritone JOHN BRANCY (Erik Magnussen) makes his debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in these performances of ATLAS. His current season has included Neuwirth’s Lost Highway for Oper Frankfurt directed by Yuval Sharon, a national recital tour of Silent Night: A WWI Memorial in Song and Armistice: the Journey Home with pianist Peter Dugan, in addition to appearances with the Gulbenkian Symphony, Berliner Rundfunkchor, Houston’s Da Camera, Edmonton Symphony, Opera Bordeaux, and New York’s Musica Sacra in works ranging from Carmina Burana and Winterreise to Messiah and Roméo et Juliette. His upcoming season includes engagements with San Francisco Opera, the Boston Symphony, and Opéra National de Bordeaux.