Thomas Meglioranza (born October 7, 1970, New York, New York) is an
American operatic baritone.Meglioranza was born to an American father
of Italian and Polish descent and a Thai mother. Meglioranza grew up
in the northern New Jersey towns of Teaneck and Wayne. He began taking
voice lessons at Grinnell College, and received a MM from the Eastman
School of Music. He is an alum of the training programs at the Aspen,
Tanglewood, Bowdoin, Pacific Music Festivals and the Ravinia
Festival's Steans Institute, and has been a participant at the
Marlboro Music Festival. He has studied with Elizabeth Mannion, Carol
Webber, Beverley Peck Johnson, and Fred Carama.He was a winner of the
2002 Joy in Singing Competition, the 2002 Concert Artists Guild
Competition, the 2003 Franz Schubert/Music of Modernity Competition in
Graz, placed second in the 2005 Walter Naumburg Competition, and is a
frequent song recitalist (most often with pianist Reiko Uchida). He is
known for quirky programs (e.g. Schoenberg and His American Pupils, 24
"Italian" Songs and Arias), and for talking to audiences from the
stage. His 2009 recital of Songs from the World War I Era was named
one of the Philadelphia Inquirer's "Best Classical Performances of the
Year".In 2007, he and Uchida recorded a CD of songs by Franz Schubert
that was praised by German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. His
discography also includes orchestral songs of Virgil Thomson with the
Boston Modern Orchestra Project, a period instrument album of French
mélodies (including Gabriel Fauré's La bonne chanson), Franz
Schubert's Winterreise with Reiko Uchida, and a reconstructed Bach
cantata with the Taverner Consort. In 2009, he was appointed Visiting
Artist in Voice at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
American operatic baritone.Meglioranza was born to an American father
of Italian and Polish descent and a Thai mother. Meglioranza grew up
in the northern New Jersey towns of Teaneck and Wayne. He began taking
voice lessons at Grinnell College, and received a MM from the Eastman
School of Music. He is an alum of the training programs at the Aspen,
Tanglewood, Bowdoin, Pacific Music Festivals and the Ravinia
Festival's Steans Institute, and has been a participant at the
Marlboro Music Festival. He has studied with Elizabeth Mannion, Carol
Webber, Beverley Peck Johnson, and Fred Carama.He was a winner of the
2002 Joy in Singing Competition, the 2002 Concert Artists Guild
Competition, the 2003 Franz Schubert/Music of Modernity Competition in
Graz, placed second in the 2005 Walter Naumburg Competition, and is a
frequent song recitalist (most often with pianist Reiko Uchida). He is
known for quirky programs (e.g. Schoenberg and His American Pupils, 24
"Italian" Songs and Arias), and for talking to audiences from the
stage. His 2009 recital of Songs from the World War I Era was named
one of the Philadelphia Inquirer's "Best Classical Performances of the
Year".In 2007, he and Uchida recorded a CD of songs by Franz Schubert
that was praised by German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. His
discography also includes orchestral songs of Virgil Thomson with the
Boston Modern Orchestra Project, a period instrument album of French
mélodies (including Gabriel Fauré's La bonne chanson), Franz
Schubert's Winterreise with Reiko Uchida, and a reconstructed Bach
cantata with the Taverner Consort. In 2009, he was appointed Visiting
Artist in Voice at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
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