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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12 album • Ordinato per Bestseller
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Isabel Bayrakdarian – Armenian Songs for Children
Musica vocale (sacra e profana) - Pubblicato da Avie Records il 18 giu 2021
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Isabel Bayrakdarian – La Zingarella: Through Romany Songland
Classica - Pubblicato da AVIE Records il 20 mag 2022
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SACRED MUSIC OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCH ( Anonymous - Petros Shoujounian)
Classica - Pubblicato da CBC il 16 apr 2002
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The Other Cleopatra: Queen of Armenia
Isabel Bayrakdarian, Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra, Constantine Orbelian, Jory Vinikour
Opera - Pubblicato da Delos il 20 mar 2020
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Mark Abel: Spectrum
Classica - Pubblicato da Delos il 21 ott 2022
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GRANADOS / RODRIGO / FALLA: Songs (Fernando Periquet - Enrique Granados - Traditional)
Classica - Pubblicato da CBC il 21 ott 2003
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Isabel Bayrakdarian, Orchestre symphonique de Laval, Alain Trudel
Classica - Pubblicato da ATMA Classique il 1 set 2015
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Armenian Chamber Music
Amici Chamber Ensemble, Isabel Bayrakdarian, Benjamin Bowman
Classica - Pubblicato da ATMA Classique il 1 feb 2010
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Gomidas Songs
Classica - Pubblicato da Nonesuch il 19 set 2008
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MOZART: Opera Arias and Duets (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Emanuel Schikaneder - Lorenzo da Ponte)
Opera - Pubblicato da CBC il 6 feb 2006
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Passing By: Songs by Jake Heggie
Classica - Pubblicato da AVIE Records il 14 set 2010
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Isabel Bayrakdarian, Orchestre symphonique de Laval, Alain Trudel
Classica - Pubblicato da ATMA Classique il 1 set 2015
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo