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Connecticut native Linh Kauffman has performed throughout the United States in oratorio, opera, new music, and musical theater. She recently appeared with the Oregon Bach Festival under the baton of Helmuth Rilling as the second soprano soloist in Haydn's Heiligmesse which has been recorded for future release on the Hänssler Classic label.
Highlights of this past season include her Minnesota Orchestra debut in Arvo Pärts Como cierva sedienta under the baton of maestro Osmo Vänskä and selection as a young artist in a professional workshop of Handel choral works with Baroque specialist Ton Koopman at Carnegie Hall. She performed Tarik O'Regan's new cantata The Ecstasies Above with Minnesota's Alchemy Ensemble, the Angel in Respighi's Lauda per la Natività del Signore and Stravinsky's Mass with the Bach Chamber Players of St. Paul, and Carmina Burana at the University of Minnesota.
An active oratorio soloist, Ms. Kauffman has also sung the Bach St. Matthew Passion for the University of Minnesota Bach Festival; the Bach Magnificat, Haydns Nelson Mass and Buxtehudes Membra Jesu nostri with the Bach Chamber Players of St. Paul; Bachs Christmas Oratorio, Ascension Oratorio and Cantata 197 with the Bach Society of Minnesota; Roman motets with Consortium Carissimi; and Handel's Judas Maccabaeus, Vivaldis Gloria and Orff's Carmina Burana with California Chamber Symphony and the San Francisco City Chorus.
Recent stage appearances include The Governess (Turn of the Screw) and the Countess (Le nozze di Figaro) with the University of Minnesota Opera Theatre, the title role in Handels Acis and Galatea with Berkeley Opera and Maria in West Side Story at Sierra Repertory Theatre.
An accomplished performer of contemporary music, Ms. Kauffman has sung works by Stockhausen and Cage, operas by Holst, Weill, and Zemlinsky, and the first staged production of Bowles' A Picnic Cantata. She gave a reading of Hector Armienta's new opera River of Women/Rio de Mujeres for San Francisco Operas Opera Viva! residency program, and went on to create the role of Elisa in the world premiere. She also created the principal role of Teenage Aileen in the world premiere of Carla Lucero's Wuornos and was seen in The Mistress Cycle at TheatreWorks as part of its New Works Festival.
Other roles include Pamina and Papagena (Die Zauberflöte) and Elvira (Italian Girl in Algiers) and other productions for companies such as Opera Vivente, West Bay Opera, Pocket Opera, and Bay Area Summer Opera Theatre.
Ms. Kauffman holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Maryland, and is a doctoral candidate and Berneking Scholar at the University of Minnesota studying with Lawrence Weller. She also holds the Certificate in Vocal Pedagogy from the Schuessler Vocal Arts Center of the University of Minnesota. As the winner of the 2007 Voices of Vienna Vocal Prize Competition, she recently studied with Edda Moser at the Mozarteum in Salzburg in the summer of 2007.
