 
Baritone RANDALL SCARLATA won First Prize at the 1999 Young
Concert Artists International Auditions. He was also awarded The Diallo
Prize, The Lindemann Vocal Chair and The Walker Fund Prize, which
sponsored his Washington, DC debut in the Young Concert Artists
Series at the Kennedy Center in February, 2000. On December 11,
2000, the Young Concert Artists Series will present Mr. Scarlata at
Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall, sponsored by the Summis Auspiciis Prize.
Mr. Scarlata's other major awards include First Prize at the 1997 "Das
Schubert Lied" International Competition in Vienna, First Prize at the
1997 Joy in Singing Competition in New York, the 1998 Alice Tully
Vocal Arts Debut Recital Award of The Juilliard School, and Second Prize at
the 1999 Walter W. Naumburg Foundation International Vocal competition.
In recital, Mr. Scarlata has performed in Europe at the Musikverein in
Vienna, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Liederhalle in Hamburg, the
Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Salzburg Easter Festival, the Bolzano
Festival of Song in Italy, and France's Museum of Contemporary Art in
Nice. In the U.S., he has given recitals in New York at Alice Tully Hall and
Merkin Concert Hall, in Boston at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum,
at Princeton University, and at the Cleveland Art Song Festival, the
Marlboro Music Festival and the Ravinia Festival. Mr. Scarlata has also
traveled to Caracas, Venezuela to perform.
Mr. Scarlata has performed opera roles including the Count in Mozart's
Le nozze di Figaro, Mercutio in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette and Pelléas
in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande. His oratorio engagements include
the role of Jesus in Bach's St. John Passion, and in the world premiere
of Samuel Adler's Ever Since Babylon in Washington, DC. He has also
performed Bach Cantatas, Peter Maxwell Davies' Excuse Me, and the
title role in Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat. Engagements during the 2000-2001 season include recitals at the Lied
Center for the Performing Arts in Lincoln, NE, the Madison Civic Center,
Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Weber State University in
Ogden, UT, the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York and for the
Buffalo Chamber Music Society and the Network for New Music in
Philadelphia. During the 2000-01 and 2001-02 seasons, Mr. Scarlata
will give concerts as a member of Lincoln Center's Chamber Music Society Two.
Mr. Scarlata earned a bachelor's degree from the Eastman School of
Music, and then continued his studies in Vienna on a Fulbright Grant.He
received his master's degree at The Juilliard School as a student of
Beverley Johnson, and is currently a member of the Juilliard Opera
Center. Mr. Scarlata began studying with Gérard Souzay at the age of
20, and has since continued working with him, as well as participating in
masterclasses of artists such as Elly Ameling, Dalton Baldwin, Graham
Johnson, Ernst Haefliger, Christoph Eschenbach, Roger Vignoles and
Peter Schreier.
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