Jennifer Goltz

Soprano

Soprano Jennifer Goltz specializes in the performance of new music and fin de siècle art song. Her eleven-year affiliation with the ensemble Brave New Works has yielded performances across the country of such works as Leslie Bassett’s Pierrot Songs, William Bolcom’s Briefly It Enters, George Crumb’s Madrigals, and Bright Sheng’s Three Chinese Love Songs, as well as numerous premieres, including Far Cry by Andrew Mead and The Black Sword of Sappho by Forrest Pierce. At the invitation of the composer, she performed Luciano Berio’s Circles with Klangforum Wien at the Salzburg Music Festival. She continues to premiere new works written for her by pianist-composer Logan Skelton; in summer 2009 the pair recorded two new cycles of Emily Dickinson settings. With French cabaret specialist Stephen Whiting she has given lecture-recitals on early European cabaret, most recently at the Chicago Humanities Festival. In recent years, Ms. Goltz has become known for her sensitive and elegant Mozart interpretations, including appearances as soprano soloist for the Mass in C Minor, Coronation Mass, and Requiem at the Esterhazy Palace in Eisenstadt, Austria and Stephansdom in Vienna. She can be heard on Evan Chambers’ Cold Water, Dry Stone (Albany) and Logan Skelton’s An American Circus (Centaur). In 2007 she released Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire and Brettl-lieder with the Los Angeles-based ensemble inauthentica on MSR Classics; Gramophone magazine calls her performance here “captivating” and “brilliant…. a voice full of subtle allure and sprightly energy.” Ms. Goltz holds a Master’s degree in Vocal Performance and a Ph.D. in Music Theory from the University of Michigan School of Music; she currently teaches in the Music Theory department of the UM School of Music.