Susan Narucki

Susan Narucki is an American soprano particularly noted for her perforances of contemporary classical music. She has appeared in the world premieres of several operas at the Netherlands Opera including Louis Andriessen and Peter Greenaway's "Writing to Vermeer" and Claude Vivier's "Reves d'un Marco Polo" as well as in Elliott Carter's "What Next?"

Narucki was nominated in the Best Classical Vocal Performance category for a 2002 Grammy Award for the recording of Elliot Carter's "Tempo e Tempi". [ [http://www.wnyc.org/music/articles/10014 'Classical Grammy Nominations'] WNYC Radio, February 2003. Accessed 27 December 2007.] She also sang in the recording of George Crumb's "Star-Child" which won the 2000 Grammy award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition. ["Los Angeles Times" [http://theenvelope.latimes.com/factsheets/awardsdb/env-awards-db-landing,0,3713019.htmlstory Grammy Winners Database] . Accessed 27 December 2007.]

ources

*Biography on www.susannarucki.net [http://www.susannarucki.net]
*Peter Dickinson, [http://www.gramophone.co.uk/gramofilereview.asp?reviewID=4104&mediaID=184626&issue=Reviewed%3A+Gramophone+4%2F2000 Review: "George Crumb - Star-Child, Mundus Canis, 3 Early Songs"] , "Gramophone Magazine", April, 2000. Accessed 27 December 2007 (registration required).
*Anthony Tommasini, [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/10/arts/music/10next.html '6 Characters in Search of a Dimension, in Different Operatic Tempos'] (Review of the New York stage premiere Elliot Carter's "What Next?", "New York Times", December 10, 2007. Accessed 27 December 2007.