Susan Narucki

Susan Narucki is an American operatic soprano who specializes in performances of contemporary classical music.

Career

She has appeared in the world premieres of several operas at the Dutch National Opera including Louis Andriessen and Peter Greenaway's Writing to Vermeer and Claude Vivier's Reves d'un Marco Polo as well as in Elliott Carter's What Next?

Selected awards

• Best Classical Contemporary Composition Grammy Award for the recording of George Crumb's Star-Child (2000).^[1]
• Best Classical Vocal Performance Grammy Nomination (2002) for the recording of Elliott Carter's Tempo e Tempi.^[2]
• UCSD Chancellor's Associates Faculty Excellence Award (2014)^[3]
• Best Classical Solo Vocal Album Nomination for “The Edge of Silence — Works For Voice By György Kurtág” (2020).^[4]

References

1. Los Angeles Times Grammy Winners Database. Accessed 27 December 2007.
2. 'Classical Grammy Nominations' WNYC Radio, February 2003. Accessed 27 December 2007.
3. "40th Faculty Excellence Awards Honors Outstanding Teaching, Research and Service". ucsdnews.ucsd.edu.
4. Varga, George (December 6, 2020). "Pulitzer Prize, Library of Congress induction and Grammy nomination cap banner year for San Diego musicians". The San Diego Union-Tribune. Retrieved January 1, 2021.

Sources

• Biography on www.susannarucki.net Susan Narucki
• Peter Dickinson, Review: George Crumb - Star-Child, Mundus Canis, 3 Early Songs, Gramophone, April, 2000. Accessed 27 December 2007 (registration required).
• Anthony Tommasini, '6 Characters in Search of a Dimension, in Different Operatic Tempos' (Review of the New York stage premiere Elliott Carter's What Next?, New York Times, December 10, 2007. Accessed 27 December 2007.