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The Puerto Rican American bartione, Eric Miranda, graduated from Goshen College in Indiana. His varied singing career spans two decades and has included solo appearances at Orchestra Hall, at the Ravinia Festival, and in Millennium Park with the Grant Park Symphony Chorus. He has also been featured in four critically acclaimed Haymarket Opera Company productions. He appeared as guest soloist in Johannes Brahms’ Ein Deutches Requiem with Indiana’s St. Joseph Valley Camerata, and as soloist in Larry Nickel’s Requiem for Peace at Goshen College. He has twice appeared singing cantatas in Chicago’s Latino Music Festival and has also appeared with Third Coast Baroque, led by Rubén Dubrovsky.
Opera roles include Count Almaviva in W.A. Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, King Melchior in Amahl and the Night Visitors, Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas, a Crony in The Ballad of Baby Doe and the title role in Traveling with Gulliver, an opera by former University of Chicago's composer-in-residence, John Eaton.
Eric Miranda is a professional member of the Chicago Symphony Chorus (since 1999) and the Grant Park Chorus (since 1999); and Cantor at St. Peter's Church in the Loop (since 2001), and Bella Voce. He frequently performs as guest soloist at First St. Paul's Lutheran Church. He has appeared in concert with The Newberry Consort, Callipygian Players, Bella Voce Camerata, Tower Chorale, Chicago Arts Orchestra, South Bend Chamber Orchestra, and Elgin Master Chorale and Symphony. He is also a member of the Chicago Symphony Singers, a 24-member group under the direction of Duain Wolfe. It is with this group that he made his Orchestra Hall solo debut in the spring of 2002. In July 2002 he made his Ravinia Festival solo debut with the same group.
Last season, Eric Miranda appeared in Newberry’s Will Kemp Returns: a Jigs Revival, and in A Mexican Christmas. He also appeared as a soloist in J.S. Bach’s Mass in B Minor (BWV 232) with the Bella Voce Sinfonia. In the spring of this year, he appeared as soloist with the UIC choirs in Von Weber’s Mass in G Minor. He has appeared as a soloist with Urban Baroque, Chicago a Cappella and the Janus Ensemble. Oratorio solo appearances include both the Gabriel Fauré and Maurice Duruflé Requiems, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's Magnificat, George Frideric Handel's Messiah, Ralph Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on Christmas Carols as well as numerous J.S. Bach cantatas.
Upcoming engagements include performing Ralph Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music at Orchestra Hall under Sir Andrew Davis; a live performance on radio station WFMT with Urban Baroque, highlighting a French cantata by Campras; and performing the roles of the Pirate King and Major General in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, for Wisconsin-based Opera for the Young.
Eric Miranda teaches with Mariachi Herencia de México. |
