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Who I Am & Where I Live
- Name: Bejun Mehta
- City: New York City
- Country: United States
My Life & Work
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Bio:
Bejun Mehta, “currently possibly the most sophisticated and musically most convincing countertenor” (Opera News, 2018), is a regular guest at all the world’s leading opera and concert halls, including the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the State Opera Unter den Linden in Berlin, the Bavarian State Opera, the Nederlandse Opera, the Théâtre Royal de La Monnaie, the Zurich Opera House, the Teatro Real Madrid, the Opéra National de Paris, the Metropolitan Opera, the Lyric Opera Chicago or the Theater an der Wien as well as the festivals in Salzburg, Glyndebourne or Aix-en-Provence.
Concerts with leading orchestras as well as numerous solo recitals led Bejun Mehta to the major concert halls, where he presents his award-winning CD programs and repertoire ranging from Baroque to contemporary music. He is a regular guest at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Wiener Musikverein, Carnegie and Zankel Hall in New York, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, the Cité de la Musique Paris and the festivals in Edinburgh, Verbier, Schleswig-Holstein and the BBC Proms in London.
The season 2019/10 opens Bejun Mehta in the title role of Handel’s Giulio Cesare in a new production of Robert Carsen at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, followed by a resumption of Rodelinda in a staging by Claus Guth at the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam. On the concert stage Bejun Mehta will be heard with George Benjamin’s Dream of the Song in Stockholm or a new song program at the Teatro alla Scala as well as the Heidelberger Frühling. A concert tour with Handel’s Alessandro also takes him to Paris, Göttingen and Basel.
The highlights of past seasons include a concert with Mozart Arien under Zubin Mehta and the Vienna Philharmonic in the Vienna Musikverein, performances as a conductor and soloist with his Mozart – The Dramatist program with the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra in the Vienna Musikverein or the Herkulessaal in Munich. Other engagements as a singer and conductor also took him to the Hessischer Rundfunk, to the Bochum Symphony Orchestra and the Kammerakademie Potsdam. On the opera stage, Bejun Mehta performed in the title role of a new production of Händel’s Tamerlano at the La Scala in Milan, as Oberon in a new production of Britten’s A Midsummernight’s Dream at the Theater an der Wien and as Bertarido in Rodelinda at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelina.
Bejun Mehta, twice nominated for the Grammy, which he also won in 1997 as a producer of Janos Starker’s RCA-released Bach Cello Suites, has a rich discography: His 25 recordings – including solo as well as opera – have won numerous awards including the Echo Klassik (opera recording of the year), twice the Diapason d’Or, the Diamant d’Opéra Magazine, the Choc de Classica, the Opera Award, the Gramophone Award-Contemporary, and the Edison Klassiek as well as BBC Music Magazine Premiere Recording of the year. He was also nominated for the Gramophone Award in the category Recital, the Prize of the German Record Critics and the Laurence Olivier Award (ROH Orlando 2007) and is a winner of the 2015 Traetta Prize. His solo CD CANTATA, released in 2018 – yet can I hear, was also awarded the Diapason d’Or.
Television portraits of Bejun Mehta were broadcast on CBS 60 Minutes II, A & E, Arte, ARD and ORF 2, among others. Bejun Mehta holds a degree in German Literature from Yale University and lives in Berlin and New York.
Contact Information
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Management/Booking:
Artist Management
KünstlerSekretariat am Gasteig
Montgelasstrasse 2
D-81679 München
Elisabeth Ehlers
Tel.: +49 89 4448879-0
Email: elisabeth.ehlers@ks-gasteig.de
www.ks-gasteig.de
My Media & Markets
- ▶ Twitter: bejunmehta
- ▶ Website: http://bejunmehta.com
- ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/bejunmehta1
- ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UCpRq7T63xWOm4BkkgUE7MbA
- ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/2rdEFhDlkrT6of14zr3py1
- ▶ Spotify 2: http://open.spotify.com/album/4SB8RucutNkcwnIb6iUkKZ
- ▶ Spotify 3: http://open.spotify.com/album/2fhe9DS0UIqgJ7jeTzk7f1
- ▶ Spotify 4: http://open.spotify.com/album/4dKS6g6LKXZ2o89FaQureu
- ▶ Spotify 5: http://open.spotify.com/album/5DRvetHOHpYlFEmWZ1WfTh
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The world's artistry via giant steps through a matrix based in the phenomenon placing most of the 7.8 billion of us within 6 or fewer degrees — steps — of each other ...
... a project conceived and built in the fertile, fecund and atavistic ground zero of Bahia, Brazil initially for the discoverability of this singular region's dispossessed genius.
All explained in the window immediately below. Followed — beneath this window — by scores of magnificent artists, each leading to myriads more artists/categories. Inside this window also may be found our Brazilian record store radio, named by British journal The Guardian as one of 10 of the Best Radio Stations Around the World!
IF YOU CAN'T STAND THE HEAT
Brazil is not a European nation. It's not a North American nation. It's not an East Asian nation. It straddles -- jungle and desert and dense urban centers -- both the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn. It absorbed over ten times the number of African slaves taken to the United States of America, and much of its aboriginal population was absorbed into the general population-at-large. Its people have lived under oligarchy, plutocracy, dictatorships and massive corruption, with elements of these still strongly entrenched today.
But!
Brazil has buzz...not the shallow buzz of a fashionable moment...but the deep buzz of a population which in spite of -- or perhaps because of -- the tough slog through life they've been allotted by humanity's dregs-in-fine-linen, have chosen not to simply pull themselves along but to lift their voices in song and their bodies in dance...to eat well and converse well and much and to wring the joy out of the day-to-day happenings and small pleasures of life which are so often set aside or ignored in the European, North American, and East Asian nations.
For this Brazil has a genius perhaps unparalleled in all other countries and societies, a genius which thrives alongside peeling paint and holes in the streets and roads, under bad organization by the powers-that-be, both civil and governmental, under a constant rain of societal indignities...
Which is all to say that if you don't know Brazil and you're expecting any semblance of order, progress and light, you will certainly find the light! And the buzz of a people who for generations have responded to privation at many different levels by somehow rising above it all.
Raimundo Sodré, in a conversation ranging from New Orleans to Harlem and the South Side of Chicago ... through Appalachia and Irish villages and Russian shtetls and the unofficial symbol of Brazil's Bahian-born national music (the pandeiro) almost certainly having arrived in Brazil in the hands of Sephardic Jews (including conversos) fleeing the Inquisition, once remarked: "Where there's misery, there's music!"
A pandeirista on the roof. And it's not just music. And it's not just Brazil.
