Bejun Mehta: Traetta Prize 2015

The American countertenor Bejun Mehta has been appointed winner of Traetta Prize 2015 for "his passion in giving voice to the rediscovery of the roots of European musical heritage"
 
LONDON - April 6, 2015 - PRLog -- The American countertenor Bejun Mehta has been appointed winner of Traetta Prize 2015 for "his passion in giving voice to the rediscovery of the roots of European musical heritage"

The Traetta Prize (Italian: Premio Traetta) in is an award assigned by the Traetta Society in recognition of achievements in the rediscovery of the roots of European music. It owes its name to the composer Tommaso Traetta (1727–1779) and is awarded each year during the Traetta Week, a festival dedicated to the composer that takes place during the eight days between the day of his birth to that of his death. (30 March – 6 April)

Traetta, one of the main composer of the Neapolitan School, who despite the huge success in life for his compositions has been unjustly unrecognised, along with other composers of the time.

The Traetta Prize objective is to reward people who have committed themselves in expanding the knowledge of the musical production of the eighteenth century. The Prize borrows the name of Traetta as a symbol of a large list of composers unjustly forgotten such as Leonardo Vinci, Pasquale Anfossi, Antonio Sacchini, Nicola Vaccaj, Leonardo Leo, Domenico Cimarosa or Vicente Martín y Soler among others.

Bejun Mehta (June 29, 1968) is an American countertenor.From the ages of nine through fifteen, Mehta was a solo boy soprano in concerts and recordings. Of his CD for the Delos label in 1983 (Bejun DE 3019), Leonard Bernstein commented, "It is hard to believe the richness and maturity of musical understanding in this adolescent boy." He was named by the magazine Stereo Review as the Debut Recording Artist of the Year.

After his voice changed, Mehta studied the cello, both as a soloist and orchestral player, studying with Aldo Parisot at Yale University. Mehta graduated from Yale University with a degree in German literature.

In 1998, Marilyn Horne, who had known of his boy soprano work, offered him sponsorship through the Marilyn Horne Foundation, an organization which works to develop new talent and preserve the art of song recital. He made his operatic debut as a countertenor that same year, cast as Armindo in a New York City Opera production of Partenope by Handel. Two months later he substituted for David Daniels when the latter fell ill on an international concert tour.

Bejun Mehta is one of the most acclaimed countertenors in the world. He regularly performs the great roles of his repertoire with leading opera houses such as the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Bavarian State Opera Munich, the Opéra Nationale de Paris, Theater an der Wien, the Berlin State Opera, the Théâtre Royal de La Monnaie, De Nederlandse Opera, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, Teatro Real Madrid, the Metropolitan Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, as well as with the Salzburg, Glyndebourne, and Aix-en-Provence Festivals.

Concerts with leading orchestras and solo recitals have brought Bejun Mehta to the world’s leading concert halls, where he performs unique programmes with repertoire ranging from Baroque to contemporary music. He is a frequent guest at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, London’s Wigmore Hall, the Konzerthaus Wien and the Wiener Musikverein, Carnegie and Zankel Hall, New York, the 92nd Street Y, Brussels’ Palais des Beaux-Arts, Palau des Arts Valencia, Madrid’s Teatro de la Zarzuela, Cité de la Musique Paris, the Prinzregententheater Munich, and the festivals of Edinburgh, San Sebastian, Verbier, Schleswig-Holstein, and the BBC Proms in London. In addition to his many activities as a singer, Bejun Mehta recently opened a new chapter in his career, conducting the Belgian Baroque Orchestra B’Rock in concerts of Haydn and Mozart symphonies.
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