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Praised as “radiant” by the Saint Paul Pioneer Press, soprano Linh Kauffman has appeared across the United States in oratorio, opera, new music and musical theater. She recently made her Latin American debut as Melia in Mozart’s Apollo et Hyacinthus at the Teatro Nacional de Panama. She was a festival artist the Oregon Bach Festival, soloing under Maestro Helmuth Rilling in Beethoven's Choral Fantasy and lecture concerts of Bach's Mass in B Minor, which were filmed for an upcoming multimedia project. Highlights of recent seasons include solos with Minnesota Orchestra (Arvo Pärt’s Como cierva sedienta under the baton of maestro Osmo Vänskä), the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra (McMillan's Seven Last Words from the Cross), and the Richmond Symphony (St. Matthew Passion). She recently toured Germany as the choral soloist in Sven-David Sandstrom's Messiah at the Rheingau Festival, Berlin Philharmonie, and on German radio. She also appeared with the Festival Ensemble Stuttgart in Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music and in Haydn's Heiligmesse, which was recorded and released on the Hänssler Classics label. She has twice been a young artist at the Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall, working with Ton Koopman on Handel choral works and Maestro Rilling on Haydn's Creation. She performed Tarik O'Regan's new cantata The Ecstasies Above with Minnesota's Alchemy Ensemble, the Angel in Respighi's Lauda per la Natività del Signore and Stravinsky's Mass with the Bach Chamber Players of St. Paul, and Carmina Burana with the Oratorio Society of Minnesota. An active oratorio soloist, Ms. Kauffman has sung Bach's St. Matthew Passion for the University of Minnesota Bach Festival; Bach's Magnificat, Haydn’s Nelson Mass and Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu nostri with the Bach Chamber Players of St. Paul; Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, Ascension Oratorio and Cantata 197 with the Bach Society of Minnesota; Roman motets with Consortium Carissimi; and Handel's Judas Maccabaeus and Semele, Vivaldi’s Gloria and Orff's Carmina Burana with California Chamber Symphony and the San Francisco City Chorus. Recent stage appearances include The Governess (Turn of the Screw) and the Countess (Le nozze di Figaro) with the University of Minnesota Opera Theatre, the title role in Handel’s Acis and Galatea with Berkeley Opera and Maria in West Side Story at Sierra Repertory Theatre. An accomplished performer of contemporary music, Ms. Kauffman has sung works by Stockhausen and Cage, operas by Holst, Weill, and Zemlinsky, and the first staged production of Bowles' A Picnic Cantata. She gave a reading of Hector Armienta's new opera River of Women/Rio de Mujeres for San Francisco Opera’s Opera Viva! residency program, and went on to create the role of Elisa in the world premiere. She also created the principal role of Teenage Aileen in the world premiere of Carla Lucero's Wuornos and was seen in The Mistress Cycle at TheatreWorks as part of its New Works Festival. Other roles include Pamina and Papagena (Die Zauberflöte) and Elvira (Italian Girl in Algiers) and productions with Opera Vivente, West Bay Opera, Pocket Opera, and Bay Area Summer Opera Theatre. Ms. Kauffman holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Maryland, and is a doctoral candidate and Berneking Scholar at the University of Minnesota studying with Lawrence Weller. She also holds the Certificate in Vocal Pedagogy from the Schuessler Vocal Arts Center of the University of Minnesota. She was the winner of the 2007 Voices of Vienna Vocal Prize Competition and she studied with Edda Moser at the Mozarteum in Salzburg in the summer of 2007. |
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