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John Brancy--baritone
Peter Dugan--piano
2021
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“so refreshingly, marvelously different” – Washington Post
“John Brancy has one of the most beautiful lyric baritones I’ve heard” – American Record Guide
“there is a piano soloist — in this case the energetic and fearlessly athletic Peter Dugan — called on to execute feats of alarming dexterity.” – San Francisco Chronicle
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Recorded live at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater on November 12, 2018, one day after the centennial of the signing of the Armistice that ended World War I, The Journey Home captures John Brancy’s radiant baritone and Peter Dugan’s dazzling pianism in a program that pays homage to composers and poets who fought in the war and traces a narrative arc of contemplation and peace. From the jollity of Gustav Holst’s “Jupiter” and Oley Speaks’ When the Boys Come Home to Ralph Vaughan Williams’ affectionate cycle Songs of Travel, from some of the finest lieder penned by Schubert and Rachmaninov to war-time songs by Irving Berlin and Ivor Novello and Pete Seeger’s iconic Where Have All the Flowers Gone, the music on The Journey Home spans many styles and generations but is united by a shared story about the search for meaning and belonging in the wake of catastrophe.
John and Peter’s Kennedy Center performance was the culmination of a tour that brought their message to thousands of audience members throughout the United States. Released to coincide with Memorial Day 2021, The Journey Home lives on through this recording, the accompanying videos and PBS broadcasts that will support the release, and www.journeyhomealbum.com.
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"John Brancy (born November 14, 1988) is an American operatic baritone performing with leading opera companies around the world. He is of Polish, German, English and Scottish descent.
Early life and education
Brancy was born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, to Margaret and Michael Brancy. He has a younger sister, Jenna, a visual artist[1] Brancy started voice lessons with Marvin Keenze in 2005. He grew up in the Mullica Hill section of Harrison Township, New Jersey and graduated from Clearview Regional High School in 2007.[2] He continued his education at The Juilliard School[3] where he completed his Bachelor of Music (studying voice with Cynthia Hoffmann) and a Graduate Diploma under the voice tutelage of Edith Wiens, who he continues to study with.
Career
During the 2012/13 season, Brancy made his professional operatic debut with the Dresden Semperoper, singing the role of Fiorello in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia.[4] While still an undergraduate student at the Juilliard School, Brancy made his debuts at Carnegie Hall and David Geffen Hall (formerly known as Avery Fisher Hall) as the baritone soloist in Fauré's Requiem, Mozart's Coronation Mass, and Schubert's Mass in G. He was the winner of the 2010 Juilliard School Honors Recital Competition and in the following year made his Alice Tully Hall debut, with pianist Brian Zeger. Brancy is a recent first prize winner of the Jensen Foundation competition and has received the Sullivan Foundation Grand Prize and career grant, first prize at the Classical Singer Magazine Competition, the Gold Award for Voice at the YoungArts Foundation competition. He was a 2nd Place winner in the Liederkranz Competition in 2010,[5] and in the Gerda Lissner Foundation Competition in 2011,[6] and a laureate of the 2012 Montreal International Music Competition. He is the 2013 winner of the Marilyn Horne Song Competition. In 2020, he received a Grammy Award for his work in Fantastic Mr. Fox. During the 2021-22 NHL season Brancy frequently sang the national anthem before the start of New York Rangers home games, including throughout the team's playoff run.
In July 2023 he created the dual roles of the Artisan/Collector in the world premiere of George Benjamin's opera Picture a Day Like This at the 2023 Festival d'Aix-en-Provence.[7]"; Wikipedia
