Isabel Leonard

Isabel Leonard (born New York City, 1982 [cite news | author=Trish Hall | title=Child Care, as Seen by Children | url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE4D6113AF935A15752C0A96F948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all | work=The New York Times | date=26 January 1989 | accessdate=2008-02-07] ) is an American mezzo-soprano. For five years, she sang with the Manhattan School of Music Children’s Chorus. She also attended the Joffrey Ballet School. She is a graduate of the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. She earned her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees at the Juilliard School, where she was a pupil of Edith Bers. She has also studied with Marilyn Horne, Brian Zeger, Warren Jones, and Margo Garrett.

Leonard is a 2005 winner of a Marilyn Horne Foundation award. She is a recipient of a 2006 Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation Award. She was also chosen as a recipient of a "Movado Future Legends" award in 2006.

In New York, Leonard has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center [cite news | author=Jeremy Eichler | title=A Mozart Clan: Nice Sounds Veiled by One Celestial Note | url=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/15/arts/music/15moza.html | work=The New York Times | date=15 November 2005 | accessdate=2008-02-07] and with the Julliard Opera Center [cite news | author=Bernard Holland | title=A U.P.S. Man Joins Offenbach’s Gods and Goddesses | url=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/18/arts/music/18juil.html | work=The New York Times | date=18 November 2006 | accessdate=2008-02-07] . Her first appearance with the New York Philharmonic was in a concert version of Leonard Bernstein's "Candide", and she later sang the part of the Squirrel in "L'enfant et les sortilèges" in concert with the orchestra and Lorin Maazel. [cite news | author=Anthony Tommasini | title=Childhood Fantasies, Without All the Cutesy | url=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/07/arts/music/07phil.html | work=The New York Times | date=7 October 2006 | accessdate=2008-02-07]

In February 2007, Leonard made her professional operatic stage debut as Stéphano in "Roméo et Juliette". [cite journal | url=http://www.metoperafamily.org/operanews/issue/article.aspx?id=4407&issueID=223 | last=Driscoll | first=F. Paul | title=Sound Bites: Isabel Leonard | journal=Opera News | volume=72 | issue=9 | date=March 2008 | accessdate=2008-08-16] In September 2007, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut in the same role. [cite news | author=Anne Midgette | title=The Lovers of Verona, Swaggering and Soaring | url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/27/arts/music/27rome.html | work=The New York Times | date=27 September 2007 | accessdate=2008-02-07] Leonard made her debut with Santa Fe Opera as Cherubino in 2008. [cite news | author=Anthony Tommasini | title=From Handel, Faithlessness and Devotion | url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/arts/music/04figa.html | work=The New York Times | date=4 August 2008 | accessdate=2008-08-16]

References

External links

* [http://www.imgartists.com/?page=artist&id=727&c=2 IMG Artists biography]
* [http://www.cami.com/?webid=1878 Columbia Artists Management page]
* [http://www.musicacademy.org/Academy/Release27.html Music Academy of the West page, information on 2005 award]
* [http://home.nestor.minsk.by/jazz/news/2006/11/0109.html Jazz News, "Movado Future Legends" page]
* [http://nyphil.org/meet/archive/index.cfm?page=eventDetail&eventNum=918&seasonNum=6 New York Philharmonic biography]