The baritone Robert Gardner has appeared with numerous opera houses and orchestras in the United States, Europe, and Asia, including New York City Opera, Washington National Opera, Bavarian National Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Aspen Music Festival, Spoleto Festival, the Munich Philharmonic, and the major orchestras in Pittsburgh, Dallas, Denver, San Diego, Santa Rosa, New Haven, and Kansas City. His recent opera débuts include Marcello in La Bohème, Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, Zurga in The Pearl Fishers, and Robert Storch in Intermezzo. His recent concert performances include Ein deutches Requiem with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and Mendelssohn’s Elijah.

Robert Gardner has been named the 2007 winner of the Lili Boulanger Memorial Award by the foundation started in 1936 by Nadia Boulanger. He is the third singer to win the award in its prestigious history. A 2001 Pro Musicis International Award winner, he is also the winner of the 1999 William Matheus Sullivan Foundation Award, the 2000 Gerda Lissner Award, and the 2000 Denver Lyric Opera Guild Competition. He trained at Yale Opera of the Yale University School of Music and participated in young artist programmes with Santa Fe Opera, the Bavarian National Opera in Munich, and the Steans Institute for Young Artists at Ravinia in Chicago.

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