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Jennifer Zetlan
Soprano Jennifer
Zetlan is swiftly
garnering recognition
for her artistry and
captivating stage presence. She has debuted
on the stages of the Metropolitan Opera,
New York City Opera, Seattle Opera,
Santa Fe Opera and Florida Grand Opera.
On the concert stage, she has performed
with the New York Philharmonic, St. Paul
Chamber Orchestra, the Indianapolis
Symphony, The Juilliard Orchestra and
has been heard at Carnegie Hall in
recital and with Oratorio Society of New
York, Musica Sacra and the New York
Youth Symphony.
Zetlan opens the 2013–2014 season at
the Metropolitan Opera singing the role
of Rebecca in the U.S. premiere of Nico
Muhly’s Two Boys. She also sings Mozart’s
Requiem with the Oratorio Society of
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New York and Messiah with the Baltimore
Symphony Orchestra. Zetlan returns
to Seattle Opera after great success last
season, this time as Gilda in Rigoletto.
Zetlan closes the season at the Lexington
Philharmonic performing Golijov’s Three
Songs for Soprano and Beethoven’s
Symphony No. 9.
In this past season, Zetlan returned to
Seattle Opera as Musetta in La bohème
and for Stephen Wadsworth’s acclaimed
Ring cycle, in which she was heard as
Woglinde in Das Rheingold and Götterdämmerung and as The Forest Bird in
Siegfried. She returned to the roster of The
Metropolitan Opera for their production
of Le nozze di Figaro, and made debuts
with the American Composers Orchestra
and the Omaha Symphony. She also made
her debut with the National Chorale in
performances of Orff’s famed Carmina
Burana and returned to Nashville Opera
as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte.
Mumford appeared with Gustavo
Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic in the US and European tours of
the world premiere of John Adam’s The
Gospel According to the Other Mary. She
also made debuts with the New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony and
Milwaukee Symphony orchestras, and at
the Hollywood Bowl and the Ravinia,
Tanglewood, Grand Teton and La Jolla
Summer Music festivals.
Mumford’s awards include the Arthur
E. Walters Memorial Award in the 2005
Opera Index Competition, second place
in the advanced division in the 2005
Palm Beach Opera Competition, and
awards in the 2005 Sullivan Foundation
Competition, the 2005 Connecticut
Opera Guild Competition and the 2004
Joyce Dutka Foundation Competition.
Ms. Mumford was also a Mathias Winner and PBS Concert Soloist for the 2001
MacAllister Awards.
Jennifer Zetlan is making her
BSO Debut.
Tamara Mumford is making her
BSO Debut.
Tamara
Mumford
This season, mezzosoprano Tamara
Mumford returns to
the Metropolitan Opera for A Midsummer
Night’s Dream and Wozzeck, and appears
in concert with the New York Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony Orchestra and
the Kansas City Symphony.
A graduate of the Metropolitan Opera’s
Lindemann Young Artist Development
Program, Mumford made her debut there
as Laura in Luisa Miller, and has since appeared in productions of Rigoletto, Ariadne
auf Naxos, Il Trittico, Parsifal, Idomeneo,
The Queen of Spades, the complete Ring
cycle and The Magic Flute. Other opera
engagements included the title role in the
American premiere of Henze’s Phaedra
and the title role in The Rape of Lucretia at
the Opera Company of Philadelphia,
Ottavia in L’incoronazione di Poppea at
the Glyndebourne Opera Festival and
the BBC Proms, and the title role in La
Cenerentola at Utah Festival Opera.
Ch r istian Stei n er
J an d J Ph oto gr aphy
Edward Polochick last appeared
with the BSO December 2012,
conducting Messiah.
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choral conductor. His appearances have
included the Houston Symphony, Chautauqua Symphony, the Opera Company
of Philadelphia, the Aalborg Symphony of
Denmark, Omaha Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, Daejeon Philharmonic
in Korea, St. Petersburg Symphony in
Russia and the State of Mexico Symphony
Orchestra in Toluca, Mexico.
Polochick resides in Baltimore, where
he is often asked to share his knowledge
and love of music at various lecture series,
adjudications and radio broadcasts. He
received the Peggy and Yale Gordon
Achievement Award and in 2000, he
was made an honorary member of the
Baltimore Music Club. In 2002, he was
awarded the Johns Hopkins University
Distinguished Alumnus Award, one of
only three Peabody alumni to be honored. Maestro Polochick is also a regular
panelist on Face the Music, a review of
recordings hosted by Jonathan Palevsky
of WBJC-FM. In 2011, he adjudicated
an international vocal competition in
Caiazzo, Italy.
Barry Banks
Barry Banks’
outstanding facility
in roles by Bellini,
Rossini and Donizetti
has brought him to the attention of the
world’s leading opera houses.
With the Metropolitan Opera, he has
partnered Renée Fleming in Rossini’s
Armida, Natalie Dessay in La fille du régiment and La sonnambula, Olga Borodina
in L’italiana in Algeri and Anna Netrebko
in Don Pasquale.
Current season highlights include the
Duke of Mantua in English National
Opera’s production of Rigoletto, Iago in
Otello at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and
again at the Salzburg Festival, and performances as Flute in A Midsummer Night’s
Dream at the Metropolitan Opera. Concert
highlights include performances with B