Jennifer Goltz

Soprano

Soprano Jennifer Goltz is known for her virtuosity, sensitivity, and vivid performances. Her collaboration with composer-pianist Logan Skelton spans nearly three decades, two continents, and numerous song cycles. Ms. Goltz is a founding member of Brave New Works; she has also appeared with Milwaukee-based Present Music in performances of Richard Ayres’ In the Alps and Michael Daugherty’s Labyrinth of Love. Her premiere and subsequent performances of John Berners’ unaccompanied monodrama Study on Peter have garnered international praise. At the invitation of the composer, she performed Luciano Berio’s Circles at the Salzburg Music Festival with members of Klangforum Wien. She has also appeared with New Music Detroit in their Strange and Beautiful Music Festival performance of Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians, at the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival performing her own chamber arrangements of Samuel Barber and Richard Strauss, and at the Indianapolis Fringe Festival in Stephen Rush’s Ulysses S. Grant: A Fluxkit Opera. She created the role of the god Pan in Kamran Ince’s opera Judgment of Midas (Naxos) and can be heard on Albany, Centaur, MSR Classics, AMP, and Blue Griffin Records. Her recording of Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire and Brettl-lieder (MSR) with the Los Angeles-based ensemble Inauthentica was hailed by Gramophone as “captivating” and “brilliant … a voice full of subtle allure and sprightly energy.” In the early 2000s, she fronted the Ann Arbor Klezmer band Into the Freylakh, with whom she released an eponymous CD and The Shape of Klez to Come. She can now be heard singing and playing accordion with Klezmephonic. Ms. Goltz has an M.M. in vocal performance and a Ph. D. in music theory from the University of Michigan, where she often performed the works of student and faculty composers. She currently teaches voice and humanities-based music courses at the University of Michigan Residential College.