Janice Chandler-Eteme NOTE: Effective October
1, 2008, Ms. Chandler-Eteme is no longer represented by this agency, however we will service all current engagements arranged
by this agency.
French debut, Bachas Brasileiras No. 5:
“Using
the American soprano Janice Chandler-Eteme, her voice interlaced with eight cellos, whispering like a Brazilian breeze, seductively
enveloped our ears. Her voice, as clear as water, harmonized sensually with the cellos.” -Le Courier de l'Ouest, June 17, 2007 |
Brahms Requiem with Jahja Ling and the San Diego Symphony: “In her sole movement of the Requiem, soprano Janice Chandler-Eteme
soared over the strings with ease and gleaming confidence. Her lyric soprano gains strength and beauty as she ascends,
and that is certainly what Brahms calls for." The
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 14, 2009 |
Messiah with the Minnesota Orchestra:
"Among the
four, soprano Janice Chandler-Eteme was a standout, her recitatives as calming as bedtime stories, her arias more like invitations
than proclamations. Seldom have the words 'Fear not,' sounded so soothing. And every seemingly softly
sung note could be heard at the back of the Basilica." -The Saint Paul Pioneer
Press, December 13, 2007
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Janice Chandler-Eteme
has long been among America’s foremost lyric sopranos, singing an astonishing range of literature with the
world’s top orchestras and conductors. She recently made her European
operatic debut as Bess in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess at the Opera de Lyon and her Dallas Opera debut as Clara
in the same opera. Her 2008-2009 season includes Porgy and Bess in Carnegie Hall with the Qingdao Symphony; Mahler
#2 with Gilbert Kaplan and the Cincinnati Symphony and Jeffrey Kahane and the Colorado Symphony; Haydn's Die Schoepfung
with Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony and David Loebel and the Memphis Symphony; Lokumbe's Dear Mrs. Parks
with the Detroit Symphony (also a Naxos recording), the Brahms Requiem and orchestrated Schubert songs with Jahja
Ling and the San Diego Symphony; Mahler's Eighth Symphony with Andreas Delfs and the Milwaukee Symphony and Kent
Nagano and the Montreal Symphony; and Beethoven #9 with the Alabama Symphony under Justin Brown. Upcoming are
reprisals of Bess in Lyon, London and Edinburgh and a return to the Baltimore Symphony for Barber's Knoxville:
Summer of 1915 and the Brahms Requiem under Marin Alsop.
Ms. Chandler-Eteme has sung Strauss’ Four Last Songs with Yuri Temirkanov and the Baltimore
Symphony, Daniel Hege and the Syracuse Symphony, Stefan Sanderling and the Florida Orchestra and with Peter Oundjian at the
Grand Teton Music Festival and forged memorable collaborations with James Conlon and the Cincinnati Symphony and Gabriel Levine
and the Pittsburgh Symphony (Haydn’s Die Schöpfung), and Andrew Litton and the Dallas Symphony (Tippett’s
A Child of Our Time). Mahler’s Second Symphony figured prominently in
her 2006-2007 season, the soprano performing this work with Mto. Temirkanov and Rome’s Santa Cecilia Orchestra, the
Nashville Symphony under Leonard Slatkin (inaugurating the brand-new concert hall and telecast nationally on P.B.S.) and for
her Pacific Symphony debut with Carl St. Clair on the podium. This same season included Beethoven’s
Ninth Symphony with Neeme Järvi and the New Jersey Symphony, Hans Graf and the Houston Symphony and Uri Segal
at the Chautauqua Festival; she also sang Porgy and Bess with the Choral Arts Society of Washington at the Kennedy
Center; and a French tour with the Orchestre National de la Pays de la Loire, performing Villa-Lobos’ Bachianas
Brasileiras, No. 5 to unanimous acclaim.
Ms. Chandler-Eteme first gained international
prominence as among the great Robert Shaw's soloists of choice. Other distinguished conductors with whom she collaborates
include Marin Alsop, Christoph von Dohnányi, Charles Dutoit, Jo Ann Falletta, Claus Peter Flor, Neal Gittleman, Raymond
Harvey, Carlos Kalmar, Yakov Kreizberg, Raymond Leppard, Christof Perick, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Alfred Savia, Robert Spano, Vladimir
Spivakov, Edo de Waart and Hugh Wolff; appearing with the Los Angeles and Saint Paul Chamber Orchestras; Boston, NHK (Japan),
Montreal, Vancouver, Phoenix, Kansas City and Santa Rosa Symphonies; Los Angeles, Hong Kong and Rochester Philharmonics; and
Philadelphia Orchestra, among many others. Festival invitations include Bard, Grant Park, Aspen, Chautauqua,
Prague Autumn and Blossom. Ms. Chandler-Eteme's recordings include an inspirational solo disc (Devotions),
the Dvorak Te Deum with Zdenek Macal and the New Jersey Symphony, and the world-premiere recording of Maslanka's
Mass. She holds degrees from Oakwood College and Indiana University and has studied with Virginia Zeani,
Margaret Harshaw and Todd Duncan.
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