Thomas Meglioranza

Baritone Thomas Meglioranza was born in Manhattan, grew up in northern New Jersey, and graduated from Grinnell College and the Eastman School of Music. He was a winner of the Walter W. Naumburg, Concert Artists Guild, Franz Schubert/Music of Modernity, and Joy in Singing competitions. He has been an oratorio soloist with many major orchestras and has sung Copland's Old American Songs with the National Symphony, Eight Songs for a Mad King with the LA Philharmonic, Bach cantatas with Les Violons du Roy, and John Harbison's Fifth Symphony with the Boston Symphony. His operatic roles include Pierrot in Die tote Stadt, Chou En-Lai in Nixon in China and Prior Walter in Peter Eötvös' Angels in America. He has also appeared with many period instrument ensembles including Philharmonia Baroque, Apollo’s Fire, American Bach Soloists, and Ars Lyrica. With pianist Reiko Uchida, he has given recitals around the world and recorded three albums of Schubert lieder and a disc of French mélodies. His discography also includes orchestral songs of Virgil Thomson with BMOP and Bach cantatas with the Taverner Consort. He currently lives in Manhattan, and his non-musical interests include birding and fungi.