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Toronto, Ontario - Soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian is the Canadian Opera Company's 2001/02 Artist of the Year. The young Canadian-Armenian singer was selected by subscribers for her exceptional portrayal of Cleopatra in the COC's production of Handel's Julius Caesar in April 2002. This is the fifth consecutive year that approximately 3000 COC full-series subscribers have been offered a chance to vote on an artist who made the greatest impact on the Company during the season. Ms Bayrakdarian garnered rave reviews for her performance of Cleopatra. "Singing some of the opera's most beautiful music, her best moments were sensational." (Globe and Mail, April 8, 2002). The young Toronto soprano has enjoyed a spectacular rise and is now in demand internationally. Upcoming engagements for 2002/03 include appearances at the Metropolitan Opera and Santa Fe Opera. She also looks forward to making her Paris Opera debut. Artist of the Year nominees are chosen by a distinguished panel of judges who see all six mainstage operas and choose six to eight artists who made the most significant contribution to the artistic success of the main season (excluding the Ensemble Studio production). This year's panel included: Greg Gatenby, Artistic Director of the Harbourfront Reading Series; David Macfarlane, author and Globe and Mail columnist; and, Mrs. Robertson (Brenda) Davies. The list of nominees is sent to full-series subscribers who choose the winner. This year's nominees included: Alina Gurina (Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana); the COC Chorus; the Creative Team of Bluebeard's Castle/Erwartung (Robert Lepage - director, Michael Levine - set & costume designer, Robert Thomson - lighting designer); Gidon Saks (Boris in Boris Godunov); Daniel Taylor (Tolomeo in Julius Caesar). Past winners are: Russell Braun for Billy Budd (2000/01); the COC Orchestra (1999/00); the Design Team of The Golden Ass (1998/99); the COC Chorus for Turandot and Oedipus Rex with Symphony of Psalms (1997/98).

Ahead of her years in both voice and musicianship, Isabel Bayrakdarian is gaining international prominence for her electrifying stage presence and captivating voice. Winner of numerous competitions, her most recent triumph is first prize in Placido Domingo's Operalia 2000 Competition. Future engagements include productions at the Metropolitan Opera, Paris Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Canadian Opera Company, San Francisco Opera, and the San Diego Opera, as well as numerous recitals and appearances as soloist with orchestra. Ms. Bayrakdarian recently made her first recordings with CBC records. She's as fresh as rain. She has an exquisite lyric soprano voice imbued with warm clear amber, her musicality seems flawless and she's versatility itself. - Lloyd Dykk, Vancouver Sun, November 27, 2001

Soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian, who burst onto the international opera scene after winning first prize in the 2000 Operalia competition, has performed in virtually all the world's major opera houses. The young Armenian-Canadian is admired as much for her stunning stage presence as for her uncommon musicality, and has followed a career path entirely her own. Her signature roles - Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Pamina in The Magic Flute, Marzelline in Fidelio, Adina in L'elisir d'amore and Rosina in The Barber of Seville - are only part of the repertoire of her rocketing career. Ms. Bayrakdarian is also a first-rank Handelian, known for such heroines as Cleopatra (Giulio Cesare), Romilda (Xerxes), and Emilia (Flavio), and is becoming an expert on the music of Armenia's iconic composer, Gomidas (1869-1935).

Miss Bayrakdarian has been applauded for opera performances in Salzburg, Paris, New York, Chicago, Dresden, Milan, San Francisco, Toronto and elsewhere, and is renowned as well for her work in remoter corners of the repertory, such as Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini and Bolcom's A View from the Bridge, in which she made her Metropolitan Opera debut.

Highlights of Miss Bayrakdarian's 2005-2006 season include the Metropolitan Opera's opening night gala, in which she sings Susanna to Bryn Terfel's Figaro in Act I of Le Nozze di Figaro; singing Eurydice to David Daniels's Orpheus in Orfeo at Lyric Opera of Chicago; Le Nozze di Figaro at the Houston Grand Opera; and her debut at the Royal Opera House in London, also in Figaro. Her orchestral appearances include debuts with the Chicago and Montreal Symphonies - both in the Mahler Fourth Symphony, with conductors David Zinman and James Conlon respectively. She will participate in the 2006 Salzburg Festival's presentation of all of Mozart's operas, singing Zerlina in Don Giovanni, conducted by Daniel Harding.

Miss Bayrakdarian, accompanied by her husband, pianist Serouj Kradjian, has also triumphed in recital in New York's Carnegie Hall and on stages in Atlanta, Berkeley, Boston, Edmonton, Ottawa, San Francisco, Toronto, Vancouver and elsewhere. She has concertized with orchestras in San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Minnesota, and at home in Canada with Tafelmusik, Les Violons du Roy, the National Arts Centre Orchestra, and with every major Canadian orchestra.

Isabel Bayrakdarian sings on the Grammy® Award-winning soundtrack of the blockbuster film The Lord of The Rings:The Two Towers, as well as in the multiple award-winning Canadian film Ararat. Ms. Bayrakdarian's newest recording is a widely-praised collection of songs by singer/composer Pauline Viardot-Garcia. On Azul?o she sings songs by Spanish composers and on Cleopatra she portrays the Egyptian queen in arias from several Baroque operas. Her first CD, Joyous Light, a disc of Armenian songs, caught the attention of composer Howard Shore, who invited her to sing on his soundtrack for the Lord of the Rings film mentioned above. She also recorded Mahler's Second Symphony with Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony.

Isabel Bayrakdarian has received many grants and other awards in addition to the first prize in the Operalia competition run by Pl?cido Domingo: Canada's Juno award, the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal, a Canada Council Grant, the 2005 Virginia Parker Prize, the Leonie Rysanek Award from the George London Foundation, and a Metropolitan Opera National Council Award in 1997.

Miss Bayrakdarian, born in Lebanon, of proud Armenian heritage, and a loyal citizen of Canada, moved with her family to Canada as a teenager. Her earliest singing experience was at church, which remains, along with her family, the central focus of her life. She is the subject of a CBC-TV film entitled A Long Journey Home that documents her emotional and musical first trip to Armenia, where she recently recorded a disc of works by Gomidas. She holds an honors degree in biomedical engineering from the University of Toronto.

"Instinctively dramatic and expressive, she is able to inhabit whatever music she sings..." - Urjo Kareda, Globe and Mail

"Isabel Bayrakdarian's Изабэл Байракдарян is a voice the world seems destined to know well. … Through a combination of vocal gifts, musical and dramatic intelligence, she has become a prototype of the 21st century opera star." - Toronto Star "The bright-voiced soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian, in her Met debut, was a blooming Catherine." - Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times

Soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian, who burst onto the international opera scene after winning first prize in the 2000 Operalia competition, has performed in virtually all the world's major opera houses. The young Armenian-Canadian is admired as much for her stunning stage presence as for her uncommon musicality, and has followed a career path entirely her own. Her signature roles – Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Pamina in The Magic Flute, Marzelline in Fidelio, Adina in L'elisir d'amore and Rosina in The Barber of Seville – are only part of the repertoire of her rocketing career. Ms. Bayrakdarian is also a first-rank Handelian, known for such heroines as Cleopatra (Giulio Cesare), Romilda (Xerxes), and Emilia (Flavio), and is becoming an expert on the music of Armenia's iconic composer, Gomidas (1869-1935).

Miss Bayrakdarian has been applauded for opera performances in Salzburg, Paris, New York, Chicago, Dresden, Milan, San Francisco, Toronto and elsewhere, and is renowned as well for her work in remoter corners of the repertory, such as Berlioz’s Benvenuto Cellini and Bolcom’s A View from the Bridge, in which she made her Metropolitan Opera debut.

Highlights of Miss Bayrakdarian’s 2005-2006 season include the Metropolitan Opera’s opening night gala, in which she sings Susanna to Bryn Terfel's Figaro in Act I of Le Nozze di Figaro; singing Eurydice to David Daniels's Orpheus in Orfeo at Lyric Opera of Chicago; Le Nozze di Figaro at the Houston Grand Opera; and her debut at the Royal Opera House in London, also in Figaro. Her orchestral appearances include debuts with the Chicago and Montreal Symphonies – both in the Mahler Fourth Symphony, with conductors David Zinman and James Conlon respectively. She will participate in the 2006 Salzburg Festival's presentation of all of Mozart's operas, singing Zerlina in Don Giovanni, conducted by Daniel Harding.

Miss Bayrakdarian, accompanied by her husband, pianist Serouj Kradjian, has also triumphed in recital in New York’s Carnegie Hall and on stages in Atlanta, Berkeley, Boston, Edmonton, Ottawa, San Francisco, Toronto, Vancouver and elsewhere. She has concertized with orchestras in San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Minnesota, and at home in Canada with Tafelmusik, Les Violons du Roy, the National Arts Centre Orchestra, and with every major Canadian orchestra.

Isabel Bayrakdarian sings on the Grammy® Award-winning soundtrack of the blockbuster film The Lord of The Rings:The Two Towers, as well as in the multiple award-winning Canadian film Ararat. Ms. Bayrakdarian’s newest recording is a widely-praised collection of songs by singer/composer Pauline Viardot-Garcia. On Azulão she sings songs by Spanish composers and on Cleopatra she portrays the Egyptian queen in arias from several Baroque operas. Her first CD, Joyous Light, a disc of Armenian songs, caught the attention of composer Howard Shore, who invited her to sing on his soundtrack for the Lord of the Rings film mentioned above. She also recorded Mahler’s Second Symphony with Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony.

Isabel Bayrakdarian has received many grants and other awards in addition to the first prize in the Operalia competition run by Plácido Domingo: Canada's Juno award, the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal, a Canada Council Grant, the 2005 Virginia Parker Prize, the Leonie Rysanek Award from the George London Foundation, and a Metropolitan Opera National Council Award in 1997.

Miss Bayrakdarian, born in Lebanon, of proud Armenian heritage, and a loyal citizen of Canada, moved with her family to Canada as a teenager. Her earliest singing experience was at church, which remains, along with her family, the central focus of her life. She is the subject of a CBC-TV film entitled A Long Journey Home that documents her emotional and musical first trip to Armenia, where she recently recorded a disc of works by Gomidas. She holds an honors degree in biomedical engineering from the University of Toronto.

Isabel Bayrakdarian Изабэл Байракдарян Manager: Elizabeth Crittenden Management Territory: Worldwide Ahead of her years in both voice and musicianship, Isabel Bayrakdarian is gaining international prominence for her electrifying stage presence and captivating voice. Winner of numerous competitions, her most recent triumph was first prize in Placido Domingo's Operalia 2000 Competition. Future engagements include productions at the Metropolitan Opera, Paris Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Canadian Opera Company, San Francisco Opera, and the San Diego Opera, as well as numerous recitals and appearances as soloist with orchestra. Ms. Bayrakdarian recently made her first recordings with CBC records. She's as fresh as rain. She has an exquisite lyric soprano voice imbued with warm clear amber, her musicality seems flawless and she's versatility itself. - Lloyd Dykk, Vancouver Sun, November 27, 2001

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