Classics 2012-2013 Biographies - The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

On the concert stage, Ms. Gruber has sung with St. Louis Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Baroque
Orchestra, Boston Baroque Orchestra, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Columbus Symphony, Aspen Music Festival Orchestra, Florida
Philharmonic, Berkshire Choral Festival, Jacksonville Symphony, Omaha Symphony, and San Jose Symphony in repertoire ranging
from Handel’s Messiah to Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 to Bernstein’s West Side Story.
An accomplished recitalist whose song repertoire spans nine languages, Sari Gruber has appeared in recital at Lincoln Center’s Alice
Tully Hall and Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, in addition to other noted recital venues, including New York’s 92nd Street Y and Miller
Theater, San Francisco Performances at the Herbst Theatre, Chicago Humanities Festival, and New York Festival of Song. She has
given recitals throughout the United States under the auspices of the Naumburg Foundation and the Marilyn Horne Foundation.
Other notable recital credits include a pre-­‐concert recital of Copland’s Poems of Emily Dickinson for New York Philharmonic’s
Copland Festival, appearing as the featured recitalist for the MTNA/NATS national convention in Salt Lake City, and solo recitals at
Skidmore College and with San Francisco Opera Center’s Schwabacher Debut Recital Series.
Ms. Gruber holds a B.A. from Yale University, and a Master of Music in Voice from The Juilliard School. She pursued further
training at the Juilliard Opera Center, and San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program. Her love of recital brought her to study song
literature at both the Tanglewood Music Center and the Ravinia Festival’s Steans Institute. A semi-­‐finalist in the 1996 Metropolitan
Opera National Council Auditions, Ms. Gruber has also been awarded the Sara Tucker Grant from the Tucker Foundation, the
William Sullivan Grant, a study grant from the Licia Albanese Foundation, two Richard F. Gold Career Grants, the DeRosa Prize from
The Juilliard School, and the prestigious Louis Sudler Prize for Excellence in the Arts given to one graduating senior from Yale
College each year at Commencement. Having grown up in Germany and the United States, she now resides in Pittsburgh with her
husband, opera administrator William J. Powers and their daughter.