BIO

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Staufenbiel: Tenor (longer version) (shorter version)
Staufenbiel: Director (longer version) (shorter version)

Tenor Brian Staufenbiel has appeared at the Boston Early Music Festival, the Rochester Bach Festival in New York State, the Sherbrooke Summer Music Festival, and sings frequently throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. He is well known for his dramatic interpretation of the Evangelist role in Bach’s Saint Matthew and Saint John Passion, as well as his gruesome depiction of the Roasted Swan in Orff’s Carmina Burana. Staufenbiel is a voice faculty and the Artistic Director of the Opera Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. With his 2006 production, he was awarded the first prize in the National Opera Association Opera Competition.

In addition to live performance, Staufenbiel has recorded for Musical Heritage Society, Koch International Classics, and Helicon Records music by Alessandro Stradella, Heinrich Schütz, Lou Harrison, and Paul Bowles. His most recent recording includes the world premiere recordings of tenor arias from Lou Harrison’s opera Young Caesar and the Saint Cecilia Mass (Kleos records). Staufenbiel holds a doctorate degree in vocal performance and literature from the Eastman School of Music.