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The American music director and bass-baritone, Ian Pomerantz (Hebrew name: îùä éùøàì áï ò÷éáà), studied at High School in the Community in New Haven, Connecticut. He studied at ACES Educational Center for the Arts (2000-2004), and was Apprentice at Connecticut Free Shakespeare (2003-2006). He obtained his Bachelor of Music degree in Voice Performance from Westminster Choir College (2008); his Master of Music degree in Voice from Longy School of Music of Bard College (2012); and is completing a doctorate in Voice Performance focused on French Baroque repertoire at the Hartt School of Music, with additional study in France (expected 2019). He also teaches there voice, French diction, and French repertoire. He was also Young Artist and Teaching Fellow at Atlantic Music Festival (2011).
Ian Pomerantz’s "rich bass-baritone voice" is "especially remarkable, with gravity turning mellifluous at key moments, free of any hint of false inflation.” Praised for his versitility, he is“the possessor of an instrument naturally at home in many genres,- in opera, in recital, and in oratorio.” He is a specialist in the French Baroque vocal repertoire, and is the co-founder and artistic director of Les Enfants d’Orphée, an ensemble dedicated to bringing the music of the French Baroque to North American audiences. He has been a member of Cantata Singers since 2013, and is a frequent soloist throughout the New England region. He has performed with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Dresdner Philharmonie, Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, and Lucerne Festival Orchestra.
To begin his 2016-2017 season, Ian Pomerantz gave the North American premiere of Philippe Courbois’ Orphée, and revived Boismortier’s Automne with harpsichordist Byron Schenkman, for which the Boston Music Intelligencer said the two “radiated with investment and artistic attitude.” With Les Enfants, he is also reviving cantatas by Clérambault as a part of the John Kleshinsky Concert Series in Boston. A performance of Charpentier’s In Nativitatem N.S.J.C. Canticum brought him to New York City’s Baroque stages in December 2017, and he joined the Grammy Award-winning Boston Early Music festival in the North American premiere of Campra’s opera Le Carnival de Venise (June 2017)
As a scholar of Jewish music, Ian Pomerantz joined Boston’s Cantata Singers at Jordan Hall as the guest soloist in Yehudi Wyner's Torah Service, and collaborated in Orchestra of New Spain’s groundbreaking program The Triangle of Al-Andalus (May 2017), , and was praised for his recital, “Hazzan: The Golden Age of the Cantor,” in Hartford, Connecticut. In the 2017-2018 season, he joined Opera Connecticut as a Resident Artist in their season's productions, and premiered the new opera Who Married Star Husbands with Hartford Opera Theater (November 2017). He directed a revival Louis Saladin’s Canticum Hebraïcum of the 1680’s in a collaboration with Les Enfants and Boston (October 2018), and joined Byron Schenkman and Friends as a guest soloist in reviving George Frideric Handel’s cantatas for bass voice (February 2018). In July 2018, he joined Aquilon Music Festival as a faculty member in historical performance, singing the role of Le Devin in the first modern performance of Marc Antoine Legrand’s La Chûte de Phaëton. Next season he joins Opera Connecticut as Colline in La bohème, returns to the Boston Early Music Festival as a soloist in Caccini’s Alcina and premieres transcriptions of Reynaldo Hahn’s songs for voice and guitar at the American Church in Paris. He also joins the Miryam Ensemble as a soloist performing baroque settings of the Song of Solomon. He got married on June 15, 2014 and currently lives in Lyon, France. |
