Tony Arnold Assistant Professor of Music Vocal Performance MM Northwestern University, Orchestral Conducting 222 Baird Hall University at Buffalo Buffalo NY, 14260 tel:(716) 645-2765 x1262 fax: (716) 645-3824 email:  tony@screecher.com

Biography

Clarity, depth, imagination, and vocal beauty mark the performances of soprano Tony Arnold, whose interpretation of the contemporary repertoire is gaining worldwide recognition.

In March 2001, Ms. Arnold was thrust into the international spotlight when she became the first vocalist ever to be awarded First Prize in the prestigious Gaudeamus International Interpreters Competition (Holland). On the heels of that triumph, Ms Arnold took First Prize in the Louise D. McMahon International Music Competition (USA).

Ms. Arnold has received critical acclaim, including Rotterdams Dagblad, who recognized her "beautiful voice, very gutsy and fantastic technique," the Chicago Sun-Times, who hailed her "impeccable precision," and the Buffalo News who noted the "pure, seductive sound quality of her voice" as well as her "dramatic abilities."

From Aperghis to Zuidam, Tony Arnold's work has focused on the most innovative composers of our time, including György Ligeti, Thomas Adés, György Kurtág, George Crumb, Bernard Rands, Elliott Carter, and Oliver Knussen. Her wide repertoire includes masterworks of Olivier Messiaen and Arnold Schoenberg. She also has many premieres to her credit, among them works by composers Claudio Spies, Pauline Oliveros, Yuri Falik, Rami Levin, Jean Milew, William Averitt, Robert Kritz, and Don Womack.

Ms. Arnold's highly anticipated debut recordings will be issued in 2003. They will include Elliott Carter's Of Challenge and of Love (Bridge Records); George Crumb's Madrigals (Bridge); Luciano Berio's Sequenza III (Naxos); and Milton Babbitt's Quatrains (Bridge).

Ms. Arnold has appeared with leading new music ensembles across the nation, including eighth blackbird, New York New Music Ensemble, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, The Furious Band, Chicago Symphony Orchestra's MusicNOW, Fulcrum Point, Contemporary Chamber Players, Pocket Opera Company, International Contemporary Ensemble, Cincinnati Symphony Chamber Players, and the Slee Sinfonietta at June in Buffalo. Collaborative pianists have included Jacob Greenberg, Diana Schmück, and Robert Spano.

Tony Arnold's early musical training included piano, woodwind, and composition studies at the Peabody Preparatory Institute and the Maryland Center for the Arts. She received a bachelors degree in voice from Oberlin College in 1990, and a masters degree in orchestral conducting from Northwestern University in 1993.

Her diverse musical background includes music directorships with the University of Chicago Chamber Orchestra, the Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company of Chicago, and the Suburban Youth Symphony Orchestra. She has received fellowships to the Aspen Music Festival, both as a conductor and a vocalist.

Future performances include her debut with the Chicago Sinfonietta, and Louis Andriessen's Odysseus' Women for the Oerol Festival in the Netherlands.