Juliana Janes-Yaffe

New York City-based soprano and vocal pedagogue Juliana Janes-Yaffé established herself as one of the finest female song recitalists devoted to a genre of solo vocal recital last championed by the famous Dutch soprano Elly Ameling. The intimacy of poetic expression, and the subtlety of interpretation in Juliana’s performances have won her acclaim from both professionals and audiences all over the world. In addition, her repertoire encompasses over thirty opera roles, having spent twelve years engaged in the German opera houses, most of the major oratorio solos, as well as a broad cross-section of the Italian, French, German and American art song literature. Most recently, she has been involved in the foundation-funded Yiddish Folksong Project, with which she toured extensively through-out the U.S., UK, and Europe (www.ipsilonmusic.com/yfsp).

Juliana is an equally committed vocal pedagogue, having received her Master of Music degree from Boston University, where, as a Dean’s Scholar, she was a performance and pedagogy protégé of the renowned Phyllis Curtin. During that period, she also served as a vocal instructor, both in the Boston University School of Fine Arts, as well as its Tanglewood Institute. She was a long-time voice instructor and Liaison to the Chair for Vocal Studies at the Mannes College of Music, Preparatory Division, and was for many years on the staff of New York University, where she trained voice majors for work in the Broadway musical theatre genre and headed the classical pathway modules in German and French Lyric Diction for Singers. Most recently, she has served on the voice faculty of the Royal Northern College of Music, England (Preparatory Division) and at Coventry University, England, where she taught voice students in both classical and popular music genres and taught classes in composing for the voice.

She has also maintained a private voice studio in New York City and, over the past several years, has become known for her work in the area of recuperative vocal technique, with numerous singers sent to her by established laryngologists and speech therapists.

She has been heard as a soloist in performances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Lincoln Center Festival, New-York Historical Society, 92nd Street Y, Symphony Space, Mannes College of Music, the German opera houses of Münster, Essen, and Stuttgart. Guest engagements found her in San Francisco, New York, Darmstadt, Aachen, Osnabrück, Kassel, Berlin, and Miami. She has appeared also at the Steirischer Herbst Festival (Austria), and with Meet the Composer, INTIME International Symposium, Westchester Chorale, Concordia Orchestra, Colorado Springs Symphony, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Dallas Symphony, Oakland Symphony, San Jose Symphony, Florida Philharmonic, Istanbul Philharmonic, Orchester der deutschen Oper Berlin, Tokyo City Philharmonic, Orquestra del Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires), Orchestra dell’Opera di Genova, Orchester der Stadt Münster, Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Symphonie-Orchester Graunke, Munich, Alt-Wiener-Strauss-Ensemble, Vienna Operetten-Bühne, Orchestra of The 92nd Street Y, and Walla Walla Symphony. Juliana has recorded (with her husband, conductor/pianist John Yaffé) songs of Stefano Donaudy, Lee Hoiby and Arnold Schönberg for Südwestfunk (Germany). Her perfor[1]mances have also been broadcast over the BBC network