Measha Brueggergosman
soprano

Performance Dates
September 21/23 8:00 PM
September 24 3 :00 PM

Noted by the San Francisco Chronicle as, “a singer of rare gifts and artistic intensity” and by the Washington Post for singing with “an all-encompassing warmth and joy, melding honed artistry with youthful enthusiasm,” Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman has emerged as one of the most magnificent artists and vibrant personalities of the day.  She is critically acclaimed by the international press as much for her innate musicianship and radiant voice as for a sovereign stage presence far beyond her years.  She makes her ASO debut with these concerts.

A dynamic scope of repertoire coupled with a profound depth of artistry brings Ms. Brueggergosman together with many of the finest international orchestras and most esteemed conductors of our day.  Performances of the 2006-07 see her with Peter Oundjian and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst and the Cleveland Orchestra, and Gustavo Dudamel both at the Israel Philharmonic and on a European tour with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.  She also joins Michael Tilson Thomas, Maxim Vengerov, and the New World Symphony for a gala concert inaugurating Miami’s Carnival Center for the Performing Arts.

Deeply committed to the art of recital, where her programs are likely to include less-frequently-heard songs by Bolcom, Satie, and Turina alongside more familiar works by Mahler, Ravel, and Strauss, Ms. Brueggergosman has a busy schedule of solo recitals at London’s Wigmore Hall, the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, the University Musical Society’s Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, Hertz Hall in Berkeley, as well as in Gstaad, Aberdeen, and Kitchener among many others.

Highlights of recent seasons include Dialogues des Carmélites at the Vancouver Opera, Aeneas in Kartago at the Staatstheater Stuttgart, and Turandot with Cincinnati Opera, as well as concert performances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Leonard Slatkin, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, the National Arts Centre Orchestra with Patrick Summers, the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Hans Graf, and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra under Jiri Belohlavek.  Recital highlights include a sold-out performance at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto and solo concerts at the Kennedy Center, Vancouver’s Chan Centre, Spivey Hall in Atlanta, as well as at the Edinburgh, Bergen, Verbier, and Tuscan Sun festivals.

So Much to Tell, Ms. Brueggergosman’s first solo commercial recording on the CBC Records label, features music by Barber, Copland, and Gershwin.  Her second CD, Extase, just released, presents a program of Berlioz’s Nuits d'été and Massenet opera arias with Yoav Talmi and the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec.

Comprehensive performance and career information is found at www.measha.com.

Last Updated: August 31, 2006