Julia Bentley (singer)
Julia Bentley is an American mezzo-soprano specializing in contemporary chamber music and innovative curation of art song. She is Grammy-nominated for her work with the New Budapest Orpheum Society, and a creative pedagogue and advocate for applied vocal acoustics. She has been featured as a soloist with ensembles including the Canteloube Chants d’Auvergne with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago,[1] Pierrot Lunaire with eighth blackbird,[2] the Berg Lyric Suite with the Emerson String Quartet,[3] works of John Harbison with the composer for the Network for New Music,[4] and chamber works of Respighi and Brett Dean with the Callisto Ensemble.[5]
Recognized by the New York Times for her “rich sound, deep expressivity and uncanny sense of pitch,”[6] she has soloed with orchestras led by George Manahan, Raymond Leppard, Oliver Knussen, Robert Shaw and Pierre Boulez. She has appeared at Alice Tully Hall and Weill Recital Hall with Pierre Boulez as the soloist in Le Marteau Sans Maître, and recorded on the Albany, Centaur, Cedille and Tintagel labels.
Her singing is featured in the 2022 New York Times article 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mezzo-Sopranos.[7]
She has taught studio voice, graduate vocal pedagogy and graduate art song literature at Northern Illinois University, DePaul University, North Park University, the University of Missouri and the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.
She co-authored "Chapter 8: Perceiving Imaginative and Intellectual Oscillation in George Crumb's Apparition" in Twentieth- and Twenty-first-Century Song Cycles from Routledge Publishing.[8]
References
- ↑ Fisher, Gerald (2011). "Civic Orchestra closes season with two symphonic showpieces". Chicago Classical Review. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ White, William (2004). "eighth blackbird provides a reason to forget the seventh and sixth". The Chicago Maroon. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Fisher, Gerald (2013). "Emerson Quartet and guests offer a stellar evening centered on 20th-century music". Chicago Classical Review. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Dobrin, Peter (2014). "Songs in the key of Harbison". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Johnson, Lawrence A. (2009). "Callisto Ensemble make strong case for Respighi's neglected vocal music". Chicago Classical Review. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Tommasini, Anthony (2001). "Early Boulez Opus Seems More Approachable Now". The New York Times. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Colter Walls, Seth (2022). "5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mezzo-Sopranos". The New York Times.
- ↑ Lea, Peter; Bentley, Julia (2020). "Chapter 8: Perceiving Imaginative and Intellectual Oscillation in George Crumb's Apparition". In Sly, Gordon; Callahan, Michael R. Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Song Cycles. Routledge. ISBN 9780367220266. Search this book on
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