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B.M., M.M. New England Conservatory
 Professor Jane Bryden is a highly acclaimed and distinguished
advocate of chamber music, who has appeared with St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, the
Kennedy Center Chamber Players, and Calliope. In addition, she is well known as a
historically informed performer of Baroque music and collaborates with such period
instrument ensembles as the Bach Ensemble, the Boston Museum Trio, Aston Magna, the
Aulos Ensemble, the Santa Fe Pro Musica, and the Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra. Ms.
Bryden performed the role of Angelica in Peter Sellar's production of Handel's Orlando
and is a founding member of Boston's Emmanuel Music with whom she has given more
than 100 performances of Bach cantatas in the liturgical context.
Ms. Bryden has also
been a soloist with the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, and the Baltimore
Symphony. Other career highlights include touring Israel with Zubin Mehta and the
Israel Philharmonic and premiering Andrew Imbrie's Requiem with the San Francisco
Symphony, conducted by Edo de Waart. In the world premieres of Ronald Perera's
operas The Yellow Wallpaper and S at Smith College, she created the roles of Charlotte
and Sarah. Other composers whose works she has premiered include John Harbison, Earl
Kim, Martin Boykan, Donald Sur, and Donald Wheelock.
As a recipient of a Howard Foundation
grant, Ms. Bryden produced and participated in a festival of the music of Luigi
Dallapiccola. Her recent performances include the Mozart Requiem at Tanglewood with
the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Andrew Parrott directing (recorded for
Denon), a series of Bach Cantata recordings for the BBC in London, the Brahms Liebeslieder
Walzer for the Mark Morris Dance Company, and solo recitals at the Hopkins Center
and Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall. Her recordings have been released on Koch
International Classics, L'Oiseau Lyre, Pro Arte, Angel, Denon, CBS Masterworks,
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, and CRI. A CD of Robert Schumann songs with fortepiano has
recently been released by Gasparo Records.
Jane Bryden is Iva Dee Hiatt Professor
of Music at Smith College. |
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