Soloists
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Nathan Berg |
Born in Saskatchewan, Nathan Berg studied in Canada, the US, France, and finally at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where he won the Gold Medal for Singers. A winner of prizes in the Royal Over-Seas League, Peter Pears, Kathleen Ferrier and Walther Gruner Lieder Competitions, Mr. Berg’s musicality and artistry continue to receive international critical acclaim. He makes his Music of the Baroque début in these performances.
With repertoire ranging from Bach and Handel to Mahler and Verdi, Nathan Berg has travelled extensively to perform with such conductors as Davis, Slatkin, Masur, Boulez, Harding, Hogwood, Salonen, Dutoit, Dohnanyi, Christie, Herreweghe, Tilson-Thomas, Abbado, Norrington, Haenchen, Rilling, King and Leppard. He has performed with numerous orchestras around the world including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Montreal Symphony, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, National Symphony, the Rias Kammerchor, Academy of Ancient Music, Les Arts Florissants, St. Louis Symphony and San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. At the Proms in London he has performed with the English Concert and Trevor Pinnock and with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Belohlavek. Concert engagements include L’Enfance du Christ with Eschenbach and the Orchestre de Paris, Haydn’s Creation under Daniel Harding with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Bartok’s Bluebeard's Castle with the Montreal Symphony, Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast with the Toronto Symphony and Sir Andrew Davis, Mozart’s Mass in C Minor with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Carnegie Hall, and concerts of Haydn and Rameau with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under William Christie.
Operatic roles have included Argante in Rinaldo at the Bayerische Staatsoper, the title role in Le Nozze di Figaro for New York City Opera and the Netherlands Opera, Schaunard in La Boheme for the Canadian Opera Company and with Osawa in Tokyo and Colline in La Bohème at the Opéra de Paris Bastille and Vancouver Opera. Mr. Berg has also sung Masetto in Don Giovanni, Thesée in Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie and Huascar Ali in Rameau’s Les Indes Galantes for Opéra de Paris. He sang Guglielmo in Cosi fan tutte for Welsh National Opera, Vancouver Opera and Edmonton Opera and Leporello in Don Giovanni for New York City Opera and English National Opera.