John Aler
Tenor
John Aler
Tenor
(Updated
May2007 - Please discard all previous versions)
The renowned American tenor, John Aler, is one of the most acclaimed and admired singers on the international stage. A consummate artist, he is a frequent performer with such orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the symphony orchestras of Boston, Chicago and San Francisco. He has sung in Europe with the Berlin Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Orchestre Nationale de France and the BBC Symphony, among many others, appearing with the worlds most respected conductors, including James Conlon, Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Kurt Masur, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Simon Rattle, Michael Tilson Thomas, Herbert Blomstedt and Leonard Slatkin to name a few. He has performed at the major opera houses of the world including the Royal Opera Covent Garden, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Vienna, Munich, Salzburg, Hamburg, Geneva, Madrid and Brussels as well as New York City Opera, the Washington Opera and Santa Fe. He is a regular performer at the major American summer festivals including, Ravinia, Aspen, Chautauqua, Newport and Grant Park.
Performances highlights of recent seasons have included Britten's War Requiem with the Moscow Philharmonic under James Conlon, Berlioz's Damnation of Faust with Carlos Kalmar at the Grant Park Music Festival in Chicago, Mendelssohn's Elijah with the Dallas Symphony under Claus Peter Flor, Britten's Saint Nicholas with the Indianapolis Symphony under their conductor laureate, Raymond Leppard, Mozart's Don Giovanni at the new Strathmore Hall with the National Philharmonic and his 21st season at the Cincinnati May Festival where he performed Haydn's The Seasons and Berlioz's L'enfance du Christ.
Mr. Aler has an extensive concert repertoire which ranges from the Evangelist in the Passions of Bach to the War Requiem and Serenade for Tenor Horn and Strings of Benjamin Britten and Sondheim's Sweeney Todd which he performed with the San Francisco Symphony, the Ravinia Festival under Andrew Litton and the New York Philharmonic, who recorded it for a limited release under its New York Philharmonic Special Edition label.
John Aler is featured on three Grammy Award-winning recordings: in the role of Jupiter in an all-star recording of Handel's Semele with John Nelson and the English chamber Orchestra for DGG which won "Best Opera Recording;" Bartok's Cantata Profana with Pierre Boulez and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, also on DGG, which won "Best Classical Album;" and the Berlioz Requiem with the Atlanta Symphony on Telarc for which won for "Best Vocal Soloist." He has an extensive discography and can be heard on more than 60 recordings on the DGG, Decca, EMI/Angel. Telarc, Teldec and more than a dozen other labels. A recitalist of note, he has several recordings of chansons, Lieder and song including a solo album, "Songs We Forgot to Remember" on Delos. In December 2006 he recorded Bach's Coffee Cantata with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in a downloadable format for Deutsche Grammophon.
A native of Baltimore, John Aler is an alumnus of the Catholic University in Washington, DC and the Juilliard School.
Press Comments:
Haydn, "The Seasons", Cincinnati May
Festival:
"One of the standouts was the love duet with Aler. The tenor, a
longtime festival favorite, delivered his usual stylish performance
all evening, navigating the runs and leaps of his 'Wanderer' aria
with agility
Cincinnati Enquirer - May 19, 2007
"The soloists' voices projected beautifully. John Aler had all the requisite coloratura and sang with beauty of tone and expressivity. Aler shone in his picture of a wanderer lost in the snow."
Cincinnati Post - May 19, 2007
Bach's Cantata No. 182, Cincinnati May
Festival:
"Each soloist had an aria, Aler's elaborate and fast-moving. All were
done in light, balanced baroque style."
Cincinnati Post - May 21, 2007
"Losier and tenor John Aler performed their
arias with earnest expression. The tenor's florid passagework was
matched superbly by cellist Norman Johns."
Cincinnati Enquirer - May 21, 2007
Recital in Cincinnati, OH:
"The Cantata "Meine Seele ruhmt und preist" (My Soul Praises and
Glorifies) is set for tenor voice, cello, violin, flute, oboe, bas
and positive organ. Until the middle of the 20th century, this piece
was thought to have been composed by J.S. Bach. Credit is now given
to its true author, Georg Melchior Hoffmann. The second movement, a
recitative (the telling of a story) has a delightful duet with cello
and bass, often in unison, conveying a brooding mood. Aler sang with
an usually expressive voice and an authentic pronunciation of the
German text. After intermission, composer Ralph Vaughan Williams'
first major work, "On Wenlock Edge" was performed. Throughout the
song cycle Aler's voice was expressive, artistic and sensitive to the
text. Chertock's accompaniment was poised and elegant."
Cincinnati Inquirer &endash; Jan. 22, 2007
Bach Coffee Cantata, Chamber
Music Society of Lincoln Center:
"Aler and Nomura were first-rate colleagues in the 'Coffee' Cantata."
New York Times &endash; December 12, 2006
Haydn's Creation and Mozart's
Solemn Vespers, Cincinnati May Festival under James
Conlon:
"Tenor John Aler, singing in his 20th festival over a 27-year span,
was superb as Uriel, He was a convincing storyteller, who
communicated with superior enunciation and was always expressive. His
aria, 'In Native Worth' was beautifully sung."
Cincinnati Enquirer - May 28, 2006
"Aler's silver-lined tenor shone."
Cincinnati Post - May 22, 2006
Don Ottavio in Mozart's Don
Giovanni, National Philharmonic, Strathmore Hall:
"Tenor John Aler as Don Ottavio has a voice of lovely quality
especially when he sang sotto voce at the most tender moments
describing his love."
AllArtsReview4U.com - May 1, 2006
Evangelist in Bach's St. Matthew
Passion, Kitchener-Waterloo Philharmonic Choirs:
"His ringing tone and intense delivery were well-suited to his
storytelling role."
Waterloo Record - April 15, 2006
Britten's War Requiem, Moscow
Philharmonic, James Conlon, conductor:
"Of all the lights in everyone's moist eyes, the tenor was the
dearest flame of all the candles. The American John Aler sings with a
luminous, colorful voice."
Vremya News - March 22, 2006
"Highest praise for the interpretation of
this composition goes to the tenor."
Kultura - March 31, 2006
Handel's Messiah, Trinity
Cathedral, Columbus, OH:
"Aler gave his solos an operatic sense of gravitas."
Columbus Dispatch - December 12, 2005
Recital Portsmouth Communtiy
Concerts:
"Portsmouth Community Concerts brought tenor John Aler for a recital
that was everything one could have wanted. His voice has a gentle
quality and sweetness that were quite appealing. He can sing with
force but more often draws the listener into the subtleties of his
sound and thought. His expression was based on clear presentation of
the texts in phrases that were carefully shaped with dynamic highs
and lows, all sounding quite natural. The performance was
uplifting."
Virginia Pilot April 6, 2004
Beethoven's Missa Solemnis,
Berkshire Choral Festival:
"John Aler, whose tenor is a welcome figure on any concert stage,
appeared to revel in the consistently high tessitura."
Berkshirer Eagle - July 15, 2003
Adam Le Postillon de Longjumeau, Monte
Carlo Philharmonic Angel CDCB-47554
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Bizet
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Bruckner
Charpentier
Dvorak
Enesco
Gazzaniga
Gluck
Gounod
Handel
Haydn
Honegger
Lehar
Liszt
Messaien
Mozart
Nietzsche
Offenbach
Orff
Perera
Rameau
Rossini
Saint-Saëns
Schumann
Sondheim
Stravinsky
VaughanWilliams
Zaimont
Collections:
Films:
Le toreador, Welsh Opera Orchestra, Bonynge
Out of the Whirlwind, Cincinnati Wind Symphony
La Muette de Portici, Monte Carlo Philharmonic
B Minor Mass, Atlanta Symphony, Shaw
Cantata Profana, Chicago Symphony, Boulez
Choral Fantasy, Berlin Philharmonic, Abbado
Missa solemnis, Chicago Symphony, Barenboim
Missa solemnis, Atlanta Symphony, Shaw
Missa solemnis, SWR Radio Symphony, Norrington
L'Enfance du Christ, Corydon Singers, Best
L'Enfance du Christ, Frankfurt Radio Orchestre, Inbal
Requiem, Atlanta Symphony, Shaw
Roméo et Juliette, Philadelphia Orchestra, Muti
Songs with Anne Sofie von Otter, Thomas Allen
Te Deum, Voices of Ascension
Les pècheurs de perles, Orch. N. du Capitole
Toulouse
Serenade for Tenor, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra
Te Deum, SWR Symphony, Norrington
Te Deum / Magnificat, Academy of St. Martins
Requiem, New Jersey Symphony, Macal
The Spectre's Bride, New Jersey Symphony, Macal
Stabat Mater, New Jersey Symphony, Macal
Stabat Mater, The Washington Chorus, Shafer
Oedipe, Monte Carlo Philharmonic, Foster
Don Giovanni, Munich Radio Orchestra
Iphigénie en Aulide, Lyon Opera Orchestra,
Gardiner
Iphigénie en Tauride, Lyon Opera Orchestra,
Gardiner
Mors et Vita, Toulouse Orchestre, Plasson
Joshua, Brewer Chamber Orchestra
Messiah, Toronto Symphony, Davis
Messiah, Musica Sacra, Westenberg
Semele, English Chamber Orchetstra, Nelson
Sosarme, Brewer Chamber Orchestra
Die Jahreszeiten, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Revzen
La Fedelta Premiata, Padua Chamber Orchestra
L'Isola disabitata Padua Chamber Orchestra, Golub
Jeanne d'Arc au Bucher, Orch. N. de France, Ozawa
The Merry Widow, London Philharmonic, Möst
A Faust Symphony, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Conlon
Songs, Daniel Blumenthal, piano
Saint Francois d'Assise, Halle Orchestra, Nagano
The Beneficent Dervish, Boston Baroque, Pearlman
Cosi fan tutte, Haitink
The Impresario, Boston Baroque, Pearlman
Mass in C Minor, Atlanta Symphony, Shaw
Music of Nietzsche, J. Bell Young, piano
La Belle Hélène, Orch. N. du Capitole
Toulouse
Carmina Burana, Berlin Philharmonic, Ozawa
Carmina Burana, London Symphony, Mata
Carmina Burana, St. Louis Symphony, Slatkin
Crossing the Meridian
Les Boréades
Le Comte Ory, Lyon Opera Orchestra, Gardiner
Songs with Arleen Auger, Dalton Baldwin, piano
Songs, with John Ostendorf
Spanische Liebeslieder with Kathleen Battle
Sweeney Todd, New York Philharmonic, Litton
Cantata / Pulcinella / London Sinfonietta, Salonen
Perséphone, Orchestra of St. Luke's, Craft
Pulcinella / Renard, St. Paul Chamber Orch., Wolff
Four Hymns with viola, New Century Chamber Orch.
Parable: A Tale of Abraham and Isaac, Ruskin Ensemble
Songs and Duets with Benita Valente
"Songs of the Civil War"
"Songs We Forgot to Remember" Grant Gershon, piano
"Where Home Is"
Little Women, Gillian Armstrong, director
My Left Foot, Jim Sheridan, director
Decca 455664-2
Naxos 8.559413
Angel CDCB-47554
Telarc CD-80233
DGG435-863-2
DGG435-617-2
Erato 9171
Telarc CD-80150
SWR Media
Hyperion 6691/2
Denon
Telarc CD-80109-2
Angel 4D2S-3997
DGG2-435860-2
Denon 8175709200
Angel CDS7 498372
SWR Media
Angel CDC-54284
Delos DE3260
Delos
Delos DE3161
Angel CDS7-540112
Orfeo 214902
Erato 45003-2-ZA
Philips 416148-2 PH2
Angel CDCB-54459
Newport Classics NPD 85515
Angel CDCB49027
RAC ARC3-4352
DGG435-782-2
Newport Classics NPD-85575
Koch 3-7065-2
Arabesque 6717-2
DGG429412-2
Amgel CDCB-55152
Erato ECD-88068
Newport Classics NC-60028
DGG 445176
Telarc
Angel 4D3S-47727
Telarc
Telarc
Newport Classics NPD-85535
Angel CDCB-47156
Philips 422363-2 PZ
RCA RCD1-4550
RCA CD61673-2
Composers Recordings
Erato
Philips 422406-2 PH2
Arabesque 6623
Newport Classics NDD-60110
Musicmasters 2007
NY Philharmonic Special Editions
SONY Classical
Musicmasters 01612-67103-2
Teldec CD4509-94548-2
Naxos 8.559444
Pantheon D19130
New World NW202-2
Delos DE3181
New World
Sony Pictures
MIRIMAX
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