Jon Garrison

He is also in great demand in the symphonic and concert repertoire, having sung with over ninety different symphonies around the world. He has sung with all the major symphonies in the United States and Canada, and with major orchestras in England, France, Germany, Italy, Scandinavia, and the Far East. His symphonic début was with the New York Philharmonic and Pierre Boulez in Stravinsky’s Le Rossignol. Among his many appearances with that orchestra was the rôle of Klaus Narr in Schoenberg’s massive Gurrelieder, conducted by Zubin Mehta in his farewell concert as music director, a performance that was recorded by Deutsche Grammophon. He has sung numerous times with Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony, Christoph von Dohnányi and the Cleveland Orchestra, Robert Shaw and the Atlanta Symphony, Charles Dutoit and the Philadelphia Orchestra and Montreal Symphony, and Herbert Blomstedt, Lorin Maazel, Raymond Leppard, Gerald Schwarz, Christoph Eschenbach, and Franz Welser-Möst, among many others. He sang the world première of Claude Baker’s Into the Sun on Leonard Slatkin’s inaugural concert as music director of the National Symphony, the American première of Hans Werner Henze’s Kammermusik with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, a nationally televised Beethoven Ninth Symphony for Herbert Blomstedt’s first concert as music director of the San Francisco Symphony, and a performance as the Evangelist in Bach’s St Matthew Passion conducted by Raymond Leppard and televised live from Lincoln Cathedral to Great Britain and Europe. He also sang the European première of Michael Tippett’s The Mask of Time for the BBC Proms with Andrew Davis conducting, recorded an award-winning Szymanowski Symphony No. 3 with Simon Rattle and the City of Birmingham Symphony and recorded the title rôle in Harrison Birtwistle’s The Mask of Orpheus with the BBC Symphony and Andrew Davis, a recording which won the Grammy Award for the best contemporary recording of 1997.