V o i c e	C o a c h e s	D i r e c t o r s	C o n d u c t o r s
Ellen Faull	Richard Bower	Tito Capobianco	Monica Huggett
Sheri Greenawald	Dean Williamson	Dorothy Danner	Helmuth Rilling
Ruth Dobson	David Gordon	Kristine McIntyre	Glen Cortese
		Brenda Nuckton	Stephen Sulich
L a n g a g e s S t u d i e d		Mark Ross Clark	Andrew Lawrence-King
German			Bruno Weil
Italian			Huw Edwards
French			Keith Clark
Spanish

 

Soprano Natalie Gunn is an exceptional young talent from the Pacific Northwest. Her clear, beautiful voice and intelligent artistry bring colorful interpretations to concert and opera stages throughout the region. Natalie has been featured by many leading companies, such as the Carmel Bach Festival, Portland Baroque Orchestra, the Columbia Symphony Orchestra, The Oregon Mozart Players, Northwest Performing Arts, Portland SummerFest, the Olympia Symphony, and Portland Opera. She especially loves to sing music by Handel, Mozart, Bach, Debussy, Britten and Richard Strauss. Her roles include Adina in The Elixir of Love, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Adele in Die Fledermaus, and Polly in The Beggar's Opera.

Natalie studied voice with the legendary Ellen Faull, and works with Sheri Greenawald, Richard Bower, and Dean Williamson. Natalie began 2009 with an Encouragement Award from the Gerda Lissner Foundation. 2008 was also a successful year with wins at the National Opera Association's Artists Competition, NATS Artist Award for the Northwest Region, and the coveted Adams Fellowship at the Carmel Bach Festival. Other honors include the Classical Singer Convention Young Artist Competition and the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.

She holds a Master of Music degree from Portland State University where she studied under Ruth Dobson, and was honored to work with Marilyn Horne, Sherrill Milnes, and Tito Capobianco. Natalie was privileged to travel Europe with the Internationale Bachakademie under Maestro Helmuth Rilling. A native of the Portland area, Natalie enjoys the great outdoors, good wine, and traveling.

-- The Oregonian May 6th, 2003. James McQuillen wrote:
"...Most notably Natalie Gunn as Zerlina; she was a natural on stage, her warmth and easy grace a match for her supple, flexible voice."

-- The Oregonian May 3rd, 2004. David Stabler wrote:
"Natalie Gunn's Adele sparkled with the dazzling agility a chambermaid needs to stay in the game."

-- The Register Guard December 12th, 2007. Marilyn Farwell wrote:
"The final work was the largest and most challenging: J.S. Bach's Wedding Cantata #210. Written for soprano soloist and orchestra, it contains five recitatives and five arias. It is as demanding as most operatic music of the time, which means florid passages, dramatic recitatives and spun out legato lines.
Natalie Gunn, a young soprano from Portland, seemed undaunted. She had an animated stage presence and a clear, direct vocal sound with some steel around the edges."

 

 

 

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