Randall Scarlata, Baritone

Hailed for his warm, expressive sound, consummate musicianship and winning way with the audience, Randall Scarlata has become one of the most sought-after musical interpreters of his generation. His performances throughout the United States, Europe, South America and Asia have garnered raves from audiences and critics alike.

Randall Scarlata has appeared as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra (Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen), the Minnesota Orchestra and Hilton Head Orchestras (Copland’s Old American Songs), the San Francisco Symphony (Mozart’s Coronation Mass), the National Symphony (Mozart’s Mass in c-minor and opera scenes), the Birmingham Symphony (Don Alfonso in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte), the Brooklyn Philharmonic (Frère Leon in Messiaen’s San François d’Assise), the American Symphony (as Siskov in Janacek’s From the Book of the Dead, as part of Lincoln Center’s Great Performers Series), Los Angeles’ Musica Angelica (Handel’s Messiah) and with Vienna’s Tonkünstler (the Celebrant in Bernstein’s MASS) among others.

In recital, Mr. Scarlata has performed with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at Alice Tully Hall, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, and concerts for the Vocal Arts Society at the Kennedy Center, in New York’s Morgan Library and Merkin Hall, at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, at Princeton University, for Cal Performances in Berkeley, CA, at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, the Academy of Music and the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, at the Cleveland Art Song Festival, Ravinia, Seattle Chamber Music and Marlboro Music Festivals, The Buffalo Chamber Music Society, and for the La Jolla Chamber Music Society. Abroad, he has performed in major concert halls of Vienna, Salzburg, Munich, London, Paris, Florence, Hamburg, Nice, Caracas, and for the Edinburgh International Festival (with pianist Richard Goode). He has also toured with Musicians from Marlboro in the United States and France performing Schoenberg’s Ode to Napoleon. Mr. Scarlata recently returned from Vienna where he performed and recorded the role of the Celebrant in Bernstein's Mass. His performance garnered rave reviews from the Viennese press. Most recently he was part of San Francisco Symphony’s Mozart Celebration, singing the bass solos in the Coronation Mass.

Mr. Scarlata has performed numerous opera roles including the Count in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Mercutio in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, Maximillian in Candide, the role of Scrooge in Thea Musgrave’s A Christmas Carol with the Virginia Opera, the world premiere of Musgrave's The Mockingbird with Boston Musica Viva, and the U.S. premiere of HK Gruber's Gloria: A Pigtale at the Aspen Music Festival. He has performed many of Bach’s Cantatas, as well as the St. Matthew and St. John Passions. A frequent performer of new music, Scarlata has given world premieres of works by Ned Rorem, Samuel Adler, Daron Hagen, Paul Moravec, Thea Musgrave, Lori Laitman, and Robert Capanna among others. In addition, Mr. Scarlata has recorded for the Albany, Gasparo, CRI, Arabesque and Naxos labels.