Susan Narucki is an American
operatic
soprano
A soprano () is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types. The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C4) = 261 Hz to "high A" (A5) = 880&n ...
who specializes in performances of
contemporary classical music
Contemporary classical music is classical music composed close to the present day. At the beginning of the 21st century, it commonly referred to the post-1945 modern forms of post-tonal music after the death of Anton Webern, and included seria ...
.
Career
She has appeared in the world premieres of several operas at the
Dutch National Opera including
Louis Andriessen and
Peter Greenaway's ''Writing to Vermeer'' and
Claude Vivier's ''Reves d'un Marco Polo'' as well as in
Elliott Carter's ''What Next?''
Selected awards
* Best Classical Contemporary Composition Grammy Award for the recording of
George Crumb
George Henry Crumb Jr. (24 October 1929 – 6 February 2022) was an American composer of avant-garde contemporary classical music. Early in his life he rejected the widespread modernist usage of serialism, developing a highly personal musical ...
's ''Star-Child'' (2000).
* Best Classical Vocal Performance Grammy Nomination (2002) for the recording of
Elliott Carter's ''Tempo e Tempi''.
* UCSD Chancellor's Associates Faculty Excellence Award (2014)
* Best Classical Solo Vocal Album Nomination for “The Edge of Silence — Works For Voice By György Kurtág” (2020).
References
Sources
*Biography on www.susannarucki.ne
Susan Narucki*Peter Dickinson
Review: ''George Crumb - Star-Child, Mundus Canis, 3 Early Songs'' ''
Gramophone
A phonograph, in its later forms also called a gramophone (as a trademark since 1887, as a generic name in the UK since 1910) or since the 1940s called a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogu ...
'', April, 2000. Accessed 27 December 2007 (registration required).
*Anthony Tommasini
'6 Characters in Search of a Dimension, in Different Operatic Tempos'(Review of the New York stage premiere Elliott Carter's ''What Next?'', ''
New York Times'', December 10, 2007. Accessed 27 December 2007.
Living people
American operatic sopranos
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women
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