John Brancy

John Brancy
Born (1988-11-14) 14 November 1988
Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, US
Occupation Operatic baritone
Years active 2011–present
Website johnbrancy.com

John Brancy (born November 14, 1988) is an American operatic baritone performing with leading opera companies around the world. He is of Polish, German, English and Irish descent.

Early life and education

Brancy was born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, to Margaret and Michael Brancy. He has a younger sister, Jenna, a visual artist[1] Brancy started voice lessons with Marvin Keenze in 2005. He graduated high school from Clearview Regional High School[2] in 2007. He continued his education at The Juilliard School[3] where he completed his Bachelor of Music (studying voice with Cynthia Hoffmann) and a Graduate Diploma under the voice tutelage of Edith Wiens, who he continues to study with.

Career

During the 2012/13 season, Brancy made his professional operatic debut with the Dresden Semperoper, singing the role of Fiorello in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia.[4] While still an undergraduate student at the Juilliard School, Brancy made his debuts at Carnegie Hall and David Geffen Hall (formerly known as Avery Fisher Hall) as the baritone soloist in Fauré’s Requiem, Mozart’s Coronation Mass, and Schubert’s Mass in G. He was the winner of the 2010 Juilliard School Honors Recital Competition and in the following year made his Alice Tully Hall debut, with pianist Brian Zeger. Brancy is a recent first prize winner of the Jensen Foundation competition and has received the Sullivan Foundation Grand Prize and career grant, first prize at the Classical Singer Magazine Competition, the Gold Award for Voice at the YoungArts Foundation competition. He was a 2nd Place winner in the Gerda Lissner and Liederkranz competitions, and a laureate of the 2012 Montreal International Music Competition.

Repertoire

Brancy's repertoire includes:[5]

Debuts

References

  1. ↑ "Life Drawing – J. Brancy". Retrieved 14 June 2016.
  2. ↑ Shryock, Bob (21 August 2008). "A Rare Talent". NJ.com.
  3. ↑ "Operation Superpower". The Juilliard School.
  4. ↑ "About John Brancy". Retrieved 14 June 2016.
  5. ↑ Brancy, John. "Calendar". OperaBase Website. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
  6. ↑ The Argus, "Baritone John Brancy on tackling the trickster Dr Malatesta in Glyndebourne Tour's Don Pasquale", (Brighton, UK), 9 October 2015
  7. ↑ "Baritone John Brancy", Pacific Opera (Victoria, BC), April 2016
  8. ↑ STLouisToday, "OTSL presents a stylish Ariadne on Naxos", St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis), June 2016
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