ABOUT
Baritone Bryan Murray recently completed a one year contract with Deutsche Oper Berlin as a Stipendiat, performing comprimario roles during the 2018/19 season including Fiorello in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Moralès in Carmen, and Marullo in Rigoletto.
Bryan obtained a Master of Musical Arts degree in opera performance from Yale University’s School of Music under the tutelage of Richard Cross and Doris Yarick-Cross. He received an Artist Diploma and a Master of Music degree from the Purchase College Conservatory of Music, and a Bachelor of the Arts degree from Stony Brook University.
In December 2019 Bryan won the first prize in the finals of the Talents of the World competition in New York, and a few days later took the Grand Prize in the Premiere Opera Foundation & NYIOP 2019 International Vocal Competition. He is also the grand prize winner of Heida Hermann’s International Voice Competition, the third prize winner in Mirjam Helin’s International Singing Competition, the winner of the “Sachi Liebergesell” award from the Opera Index Competition, a finalist in the Eastern Region of the Met Council auditions, and the winner of an Encouragement Grant from the Premiere Opera International Voice Competition.
On the concert stage, Bryan has sung the baritone/bass solo in works such as John Rutter’s Mass of the Children with the Orchestra of Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bernstein’s Opening Prayer with Marin Alsop conducting the Yale Philharmonia, Fauré Requiem with the Jacksonville symphony, Handel’s Messiah with the New Haven Symphony, Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Yale Symphony, and in the world premiere of Transfiguration by Robert Kyr with the Yale Camerata.
In May 2020, Bryan sings the baritone solo in Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle with the Cathedral Choral Society in Washington DC.
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“…two performers stood out as being the most polished and complete. The American Bryan Murray, currently at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, unveiled an impeccably schooled baritone – impressively heroic in Moniuszko (Jontek’s aria from Halka) and melting, honeyed and hushed in Korngold (Fritz’s “Mein Sehnen, mein Wähnen” from Die tote Stadt).”
“Bryan Murray is powerful and forthright as the flawed but righteous protagonist, John Proctor…At the end of the opera, he is magnificent in his refusal to sign his own false confession, particularly in his final soliloquy.”
“Baritone Bryan Murray evinced oceanic depths of feeling in his performance of “Mein Sehnen mein Wähnen” from Erich Korngold’s Die tote Stadt. His mellifluous baritone was well suited to the requisite sincerity of expression. His fine phrasing, superb German diction, and dynamic variety made for a splendid performance.”
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