The music of Schwanengesang by Franz Schubert, as well as songs by Tom Lehrer and Poulen'c Le Bestiaire.
JOSHUA BLOOM: Australian bass-baritone Joshua Bloom was a member of the Merola Programme and an Adler Fellow with San Francisco Opera. In 2005 he sang Garibaldo in "Rodelinda" for San Francisco Opera, in 2006 he made his role debut as Nick Shadow in "The Rake’s Progress" for Opera Australia under Richard Hickox and appeared in "Die Zauberflöte" and "Salome" for Santa Fe Opera. For Opera Australia he has sung Dandini, Escamillo and Mozart's Figaro and Leporello. He made his Chicago Opera Theater debut in "Béatrice et Bénédict". Engagements include Masetto ("Don Giovanni") and Truffaldino ("Ariadne auf Naxos") for the Metropolitan Opera, Alidoro and Leporello for Garsington Opera Festival, and Rodolfo ("La Sonnambula") and Figaro for Opera Australia.
JOSHUA GRUNMAN: Based in London, Ontario and Toronto, Joshua Grunmann has established himself as a vocal coach and accompanist. He has performed in recital with a long list of Canada's finest singers, including Nathalie Paulin, Mary Lou Fallis, Theodore Baerg, John Tessier, Anita Krause, Colin Ainsworth, Monica Whicher and Russell Braun.
He has worked as a repetiteur for opera presentations by the Banff Centre and has worked with young singers at summer programs in the United States and Canada. From January 2008 to May 2009, he served as the vocal coach/accompanist at Iowa State University's Music Department.
As a teenager, Joshua Grunmann was the dedicatee of Canadian composer Gerhard Wuensch's Suite Francaise pour le piano. As a vocal accompanist and repetiteur, he has enjoyed working on new music with other contemporary composers such as John Harbison, John Estacio and Dorothy Chang (for whom he premiered Songs of Wood and Water). His vocal accompanying repertoire ranges from early Elizabethan songs to contemporary songs based on fridge-magnet poetry by David R. Scott. He has also presented programs for children, performing recitals of animal songs with tenor Benoit Boutet for his own Larksong recitals in London, Ontario and with soprano Monica Whicher at the Mountainview Connection Series in Calgary.
Mr. Grunmann is also an avid chamber musician and has collaborated with the Madawaska String Quartet in a performance of the Brahms F minor Piano Quintet. Other recent recitals have been with violinist Sergiu Schwarz, oboist Ian Franklin - in a program of Mozart Violin Sonatas - and with tenor Neal Banerjee, with whom he presented Winterreise in January 2011. While on Faculty in Iowa he performed recitals with Jonathan Sturm, concertmaster of the Des Moines Symphony. He has played live on the radio for KMZT in Los Angeles and National Public Radio in Iowa and has been heard on CBC's Saturday Afternoon at the Opera.
In the upcoming season, in addition to performances at Baruch College with bass-baritone Joshua Bloom and clarinetist Charles Neidich, he will be giving a a solo piano recital of all French repertoire, ranging from the Baroque music to contemporary compositions at Toronto's Arts and Letters Club.
Joshua Grunmann has studied vocal accompanying and coaching with such artists as Rudolf Jansen, Steven Blier, Elizabeth Upchurch, Graham Johnson and Elly Ameling.
Mr. Grunmann is a citizen of the United States and Canada.
"...a wonderful musician of great sensitivity..."Bramwell Tovey
