| Benjamin Bloomfield |
| Baritone |
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| Mr. Bloomfield has a powerful and
rich baritone voice. This season he completed with his graduate
studies at the Juilliard School. He sang the Mozart Requiem with
the Columbia Pro Cantare in Maryland and returned to Carnegie Hall for
Beethoven’s Mass in C with Mid America Productions. He was also Mr.
Jenks in Copland’s Tender Land with Julliard at Alice Tully Hall in
January. He sings the title role in a concert performance of Thomas
Pasatieri’s Signor Deluso with enCanta in March. In the 2010-11 season,
Mr. Bloomfield will cover Lavitsky in Boris Godunov at the Metropolitan
Opera. He will also be bass soloist in the B Minor Mass with the
Bach Concert Series in Baltimore. Previously he was Supt Budd in Britten’s Albert Herring at Maestro Maazel’s private theater in Casleton Virginia. In addition he performed in a Kennedy center gala performance with Maestro Maazel and Marvin Hamlisch. A graduate student at the Juilliard School in New York, he performed Bartolo in Le Nozze de Figaro with the Lindemann Program at the Metropolitan Opera under the direction of Stephen Wadsworth. He performed the Father in Hansel and Gretel with The Opera Theatre of Weston Vermont. Then came Officer 1 in The Death of Klinghoffer and Pistola in Falstaff at Juilliard School. In May he performed Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater with the Monmouth Civic Chorus in NJ and The Prologue to Mephistopheles and Puccini’s Messa Di Gloria with the Rockland County Chorale. In June he took part in the first Castleton Festival in Virginia singing Sput. Budd in Britten’s Albert Herring. He also made his Carnegie Hall debut as soloist in the Mozart Requiem. Other performances include The Durufle Requiem and the Lord Nelson Mass with the Pro Arte Chorale in New Jersey and a workshop of a new opera The Letter for Santa Fe Opera in New York City. He also did Aeneas in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas at Manhattan School of Music. Benjamin Bloomfield is from New Hampshire and has a Masters Degree from Manhattan School of Music. He has already worked with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under James Levine, as well as performances the New Hampshire Symphony Orchestra. He has performed Leporello in Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Don Polidoro in the rarely performed L’Italiana in Londra by Cimarosa. His flexibility as a performer is apparent in his casting history, which includes such diversity as Il Conte in Le Nozze de Figaro, Michele in Puccini’s Il Tabarro, and Spinelloccio in Gianni Schicchi. An active recitalist, Mr. Bloomfield has performed both Schubert’s Die Winterreise and Vaughan Williams’ Songs of Travel in New York. He performed the Brahms Vier ernste Gesänge in recital with other selections at Manhattan School of Music.. While music is by far his main and favorite activity, he can often be found playing his accordion or writing science fiction. He also loves to celebrate his half-Chinese heritage with Chinese and fusion dishes. Wherever his travels take him, Mr. Bloomfield’s favorite souvenir is a new recipe. You can visit his website at www.benjaminbloomfield.com 6/2/10 |