Jesse Blumberg

Baritone

Baritone Jesse Blumberg enjoys a busy schedule of opera, concerts, and recitals, performing repertoire from the Renaissance and Baroque to the 20th and 21st centuries. He has performed featured roles at Minnesota Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Atlanta Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Boston Early Music Festival, Opera Atelier, and at Château de Versailles Spectacles and London's Royal Festival Hall.  Jesse has sung major concert works with Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, American Bach Soloists, Boston Baroque, Carmel Bach Festival, Oratorio Society of New York, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and on Lincoln Center's American Songbook series.  Increasingly active on concert stages in Canada, he has made recent debuts with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Symphony Nova Scotia, and Tafelmusik.

Jesse's recital highlights include appearances with the New York Festival of Song, Marilyn Horne Foundation, and University Musical Society.  He has given the world premieres of several acclaimed American operas and song cycles, and has worked closely with many renowned composers as a member of the Mirror Visions Ensemble. He has been featured on over thirty commercial recordings, including award-winning operas with Boston Early Music Festival, Winterreise with pianist Martin Katz, Bach cantatas with Montréal Baroque, Rosenmüller cantatas with ACRONYM, and St. John Passion with Apollo's Fire.  Jesse received degrees from the University of Michigan and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He is also the founding artistic director of Five Boroughs Music Festival in NYC, and recently served as a guest instructor of voice at The Cleveland Institute of Music.