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Julia Bullock Wins First Grammy Award with Walking in the Dark, Her Solo Album Debut

At last night’s 66th annual Grammy Awards ceremony, it was announced that American classical singer Julia Bullock had received her first Grammy Award, winning in the Best Classical Solo Vocal category for Walking in the Dark. Marking Bullock’s solo album debut, the recording has already been recognized with both Opus Klassik and Edison Klassiek awards, as well as being featured in the New York Times’s “Best Classical Music Tracks of 2022.” Alongside offerings from Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar, it was named among the “20 Best Albums of 2022” by NPR, which called it “an album that shines, introducing us to......

EL NIÑO: NATIVITY RECONSIDERED on Tour

This December, Julia Bullock and the American Modern Opera Company (AMOC*) takes its production of John Adams’s El Niño: Nativity Reconsidered on tour. The piece, with a libretto by Peter Sellars and concept by Bullock, is set to appear at Opera Omaha in Omaha (Dec 11), Nebraska (Dec 13), Stanford Live in Stanford, California (Dec),...

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Artistic residency with London’s Philharmonia Orchestra

Walking in the Dark is anchored by two large-scale orchestral works – an aria from El Niño and Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 – both recorded with London’s Philharmonia Orchestra. Throughout the 2023-24 season, Bullock will be the orchestra’s Featured Artist, for which she undertakes two residencies. The first is in November, when she rejoins the Philharmonia for a pair of American-themed programs...

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El Niño: Nativity Reconsidered with Cincinnati Symphony & AMOC

As artist-in-residence of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2018-19, Bullock devised a new chamber orchestral arrangement of El Niño with contributions from her husband, Christian Reif. Alongside colleagues from the American Modern Opera Company (AMOC), she premiered this distilled rendering at New York’s Met Cloisters, where her fellow soloists were Davóne Tines and J’Nai Bridges, as for her upcoming Met...