Isabel Bayrakdarian
Soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian is an unusually versatile singer, active in opera, classical concert and choral music, the music of the Armenian tradition, film music, and pop and crossover styles. Of Armenian background, she has devoted a significant part of her career to Armenian music, although she did not visit Armenia until adulthood.
Bayrakdarian was born in Zahlé, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, on February 1, 1974. Her Armenian family moved to Canada when she was a teenager. Bayrakdarian attended the University of Toronto, earning a bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering in 1997. She switched to singing after winning a Metropolitan Opera National Council Award that year, and in 1998, she took classes at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California, taking home the school's inaugural Marilyn Horne Foundation Vocal Competition. That was the first of several awards she won; others have included the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal, the Moyses Khronenatsi Medal (Armenia's highest cultural honor), and, in Canada, four consecutive Juno Awards for Best Classical Album. Bayrakdarian's career took off quickly in the early 2000s, leading her to appearances in many of the world's top opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera, the Paris Opera, and La Scala in Milan. Her operatic repertory runs from Handel to William Bolcom's contemporary A View from the Bridge. Bayrakdarian's work extends into many other realms. She has sung concert and choral music under such conductors as Michael Tilson Thomas, Christoph von Dohnányi, and Christoph Eschenbach.
Bayrakdarian has been heard on various film soundtracks, including The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (in the track "Evenstar"). Her film work includes A Long Journey Home (2008), a film about her first visit to Armenia, and she has toured North America with a program featuring the music of Armenian composer Komitas Vardapet. Bayrakdarian has recorded for the CBC, Analekta, and Delos labels, among several others, issuing operatic recordings, crossover albums such as Tango Notturno (2008), and albums of Armenian music. In 2020, Bayrakdarian issued The Other Cleopatra, focusing on arias about the Armenian queen Tigrane. Bayrakdarian is on the voice faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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13 album(s) • Trié par Meilleures ventes
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Isabel Bayrakdarian – Armenian Songs for Children
Musique vocale (profane et sacrée) - Paru chez Avie Records le 18 juin 2021
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Isabel Bayrakdarian – La Zingarella: Through Romany Songland
Classique - Paru chez AVIE Records le 20 mai 2022
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SACRED MUSIC OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCH ( Anonymous - Petros Shoujounian)
Classique - Paru chez CBC le 16 avr. 2002
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The Other Cleopatra: Queen of Armenia
Isabel Bayrakdarian, Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra, Constantine Orbelian, Jory Vinikour
Opéra - Paru chez Delos le 20 mars 2020
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
GRANADOS / RODRIGO / FALLA: Songs (Fernando Periquet - Enrique Granados - Traditional)
Classique - Paru chez CBC le 21 oct. 2003
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Gomidas Songs
Classique - Paru chez Nonesuch le 19 sept. 2008
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Respighi: Il tramonto
Isabel Bayrakdarian, Orchestre symphonique de Laval, Alain Trudel
Classique - Paru chez ATMA Classique le 1 sept. 2015
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Mark Abel: Spectrum
Classique - Paru chez Delos le 21 oct. 2022
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Armenian Chamber Music
Amici Chamber Ensemble, Isabel Bayrakdarian, Benjamin Bowman
Classique - Paru chez ATMA Classique le 1 févr. 2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
MOZART: Opera Arias and Duets (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Emanuel Schikaneder - Lorenzo da Ponte)
Opéra - Paru chez CBC le 6 févr. 2006
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Gomidas Songs
Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra, Isabel Bayrakdarian
Folk - Paru chez Digital Classic le 22 déc. 2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Passing By: Songs by Jake Heggie
Classique - Paru chez AVIE Records le 14 sept. 2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Respighi: Il tramonto
Isabel Bayrakdarian, Orchestre symphonique de Laval, Alain Trudel
Classique - Paru chez ATMA Classique le 1 sept. 2015
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo