Grammy-winning baritone and New Jersey native JOHN BRANCY is a master with “mesmerizing tone,” says OperaWire. This powerhouse graduate of New York’s famed Juilliard School expertly performs across operatic and musical styles. He has headlined performances with leading orchestras and opera companies, including the LA Phil, San Francisco Symphony, Oper Frankfurt, Boston Symphony, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Pacific Opera Victoria, and Opera Omaha, among others.
In recent seasons, he returned to Opéra de Montréal in the title role of Don Giovanni, and made his role debut as Il Conte Almaviva in a new production of Le nozze di Figaro at Opéra national du Rhin. On the concert stage, Brancy made his debut with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks in Carmina Burana under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle, and appeared with the San Jose and Albany Symphony Orchestras. He was also the baritone soloist in Carmina Burana with both the Cleveland Orchestra and the Austin Symphony.
Since winning the Marilyn Horne Song Competition in 2013, he’s performed multiple times at Carnegie Hall, most recently with MasterVoices in Ricky Ian Gordon’s The Grapes of Wrath as Al. He has also made debuts at Alice Tully Hall with pianist Brian Zeger, at Jazz at Lincoln Center as Escamillo in Carmen, and at Café Carlyle with pianist Peter Dugan.
Brancy also released a self-produced collaborative album with Avie Records and Vocal Arts DC, The Journey Home: Live from the Kennedy Center, which reunited Brancy and Peter Dugan in a recital program inspired by the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. He produced the recital as a film which aired on WNET and the PBS app AllArts TV. He also collaborated with Tony Award-winning composer Adam Guettel to create a short film titled Medusa.
While his career has taken him around the world, in New York Brancy is known as the official anthem singer of Madison Square Garden for NY Rangers NHL Hockey home games.