Susan Narucki is an American opera

Opera

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tic soprano

Soprano

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 who specializes in performances of contemporary classical music

Contemporary classical music

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. She has appeared in the world premieres of several operas at the Netherlands Opera

De Nederlandse Opera

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 including Louis Andriessen

Louis Andriessen

Louis Andriessen is a Dutch composer and pianist based in Amsterdam. He teaches composition at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague...

 and Peter Greenaway

Peter Greenaway

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's Writing to Vermeer and Claude Vivier

Claude Vivier

-Biography:Born to unknown parents in Montreal, Vivier was adopted at the age of three by a poor French-Canadian family. From the age of thirteen, he attended boarding schools run by the Marist Brothers, a religious order that prepared young boys for a vocation in the priesthood. At the age of...

's Reves d'un Marco Polo as well as in Elliott Carter

Elliott Carter

Elliott Cook Carter, Jr. is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer born and living in New York City. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the 1930s, and then returned to the United States. After a neoclassical phase, he went on to write atonal, rhythmically complex music...

's What Next?

Narucki was nominated in the Best Classical Vocal Performance category for a 2002 Grammy Award

Grammy Award

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 for the recording of Elliot Carter's Tempo e Tempi. She also sang in the recording of George Crumb

George Crumb

George Crumb is an American composer of contemporary classical music. He is noted as an explorer of unusual timbres, alternative forms of notation, and extended instrumental and vocal techniques. Examples include seagull effect for the cello , metallic vibrato for the piano George Crumb (born...

's Star-Child which won the 2000 Grammy award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition.

Sources

• Biography on www.susannarucki.net http://www.susannarucki.net
• Peter Dickinson, Review: George Crumb - Star-Child, Mundus Canis, 3 Early Songs, Gramophone Magazine, 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 Elliot Carter's What Next?, New York Times, December 10, 2007. Accessed 27 December 2007.