ARTIST MANAGEMENTSoprano Tony Arnold was thrust into the international spotlight when she became the first vocalist ever to win First Prize in the Gaudeamus International Interpreters Competition Holland). On the heels of that triumph, Ms. Arnold took First Prize at the 15th McMahon International Music Competiton (USA). Ms. Arnold's recent work has focused on some of the most innovative composers of our time, including György Ligeti, Thomas Adès, Luciano Berio, György Kurtag, George Crumb, Bernard Rands, Elliott Carter, and Oliver Knussen.
Tony Arnold's recording of George Crumb's "Ancient Voices of Children" (Bridge) was nominated for a 2006 Grammy award and was followed by a series of critically acclaimed recordings, including Elliott Carter's "Of Challenge and of Love" (Bridge); George Crumb's "Madrigals" (Bridge); Luciano Berio's Sequenza (Naxos); Milton Babbitt's "Quatrains" (Bridge); Stefan Wolpe's "Early Songs" (Bridge); and Tania Leon's "Singin' Sepia" (Bridge). Her upcoming recording of Gyorgy Kurtag's "Kafka Fragments" features a a filmed segment with the composer. Ms. Arnold is currently Professor of Voice at The State University of New York at Buffalo.
"The radiant soprano Tony Arnold was the soloist. Arnold gathered the ecstatic music in the pure shining arc of her singing, sustaining long phrases in the vocal stratosphere."
-Jon von Rhein, Chicago Tribune
"From the first notes of Crumb's 'Three Early Songs,' Tony Arnold's phenomenal talent was apparent."
-Washington Post
Arnold has a very strong theatrical presence and a beautiful big voice. Her sublime technique gave a feeling of brilliant spaciousness in gorgeously suspended phrases."
-De Telegraaf (Netherlands)
Tony Arnold on Bridge Records, Inc.
