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Randall Scarlata
Assistant Professor — Vocal/Choral

Room 332, Swope Music Building
Phone: 610-436-2543
rscarlata@wcupa.edu

Baritone Randall Scarlata enjoys a lively career encompassing opera, recital, chamber music and works for voice and orchestra. Past highlights include the world premiere of Thea Musgrave’s one man opera, The Mocking-Bird in Boston, recitals in the US and Europe with pianist Richard Goode, soloist with the Philadelphia and Minnesota Orchestras, and with the Pittsburgh, San Francisco and National Symphonies, among others. With Great Performers at Lincoln Center, he portrayed Siskov in Janacek’s From the House of the Dead. He has appeared in many of the world’s great music festivals, including the Ravinia, Marlboro, Edinburgh, Vienna, and Aspen and Spoleto (Italy) festivals.

Recent and upcoming highlights include the world premiere of George Crumb’s Voices from the Morning of the Earth at Carnegie Hall, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio in Los Angeles (with Musica Angelica) and in Vienna (with the Akademie Orchestra) under Martin Haselböck, recitals with Seymour Lipkin (Schubert’s Die Schöne Müllerin and Winterreise), Songs of Tin Pan Alley with soprano Jennifer Aylmer and pianist Laura Ward, in Boston and Sarasota, Handel’s Messiah with the Ulster Orchestra (Belfast), songs of Beethoven and Copland with Jeremy Denk for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a recital with soprano Hyunah Yu and pianist Ken Noda at Town Hall. With St. Ann’s Warehouse (in New York and Audtria) he portrayed Bartolo in Amy Trompeter’s beloved production of Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia. He was recently part of the Philadelphia Orchestra’s Bernstein Festival (a collaboration with Network for New Music) and sang orchestral songs of Ravel and Stravinsky with the Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra. In May 2008, the baritone appeared with Inon Bartanan’s Schubert Project in Mexico City.

A Philadelphia native, the baritone is a frequent guest on Lyricfest programs, and also appears regularly on the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society schedule. This year he also sings Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem with the Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra (under Ignat Solzhenitsyn) and appears on the Franklin and Marshall Sound Horizon Series. Fall 2008 sees the CD release of Bernstein’s Mass with Vienna’s Tonkünstler, featuring Mr. Scarlata’s critically-acclaimed portrayal of the Celebrant. In addition, he has recorded for Naxos, CRI, Gasparo, and Albany records. A sought-after interpreter of new music, Mr. Scarlata has given world premieres of new works by Paul Moravec, Ned Rorem, Robert Maggio, Lori Laitman, Thea Musgrave, Samuel Adler, David Ludwig, Robert Cappana, Daron Hagen, and Christopher Theofanidis.

Randall Scarlata’s awards include First Prize at the 1999 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, First Prize at the 1997 Das Schubert Lied International Competition in Vienna, First Prize at the 1997 Joy in Singing Competition in New York, and the 1998 Alice Tully Vocal Arts Debut Recital Award. Mr. Scarlata received a Fulbright Grant to study at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna, Austria and holds a masters degree from the Juilliard School. He is a Sing for Hope artist, having been involved with the foundation for over 10 years. A gifted and committed teacher, Mr. Scarlata serves on the faculty of the College of Visual and Performing Arts at West Chester University.

“It is impossible to imagine Randall Scarlata singing a mechanical or thoughtless phrase. One has the wonderful sense that Scarlata searches out the Platonic essence of what he plans to sing and then uses every attribute at his disposal to create the most appropriate and fully dimensional realization possible.” -The Washington Post

“A triumph! This baritone has the vocal wherewithal to do just about anything he wants. -The Boston Globe

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