Marianna Busching
Voice
A native of Minnesota, mezzo-soprano Marianna Busching made her Carnegie Hall debut singing the part of Braengane in Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde". Since then, she has performed with virtually every major music organization in Washington, D.C., including the National Symphony and the Folger Consort, and has appeared at the Kennedy Center countless times in works of Bach, Mendelssohn, and Copland. She has sung with orchestra, choruses and opera companies throughout the nation, including the Milwaukee Symphony, the Tulsa Symphony, the Atlanta Lyric Opera Company, and accompanied the Washington Bach Consort to Germany as alto soloist in Bach's "Mass in B Minor".
Overseas, she has performed in England, Poland, and the Czech Republic in concert and as soloist with the Columbia Pro Cantare. Several reknowned composers in the Washington area have composed songs and song cycles exclusively for her voice. One such cycle, using Ms. Busching's own poetry, was set to music by Edwin Earle Ferguson and premiered at the Rewick Gallery in Washington.
A popular guest artist at music festivals, she has sung at the Baldwin-Wallace Bach Festival in Cleveland, the Brevard Music Festival and the Winter Park Festival in Florida, among others, singing works from the Bach "Passions" to Verdi's "Requiem".
She has recorded on Columbia Masterworks and Centaur Records, the most recent being the recording of 56 songs by German composer Hans Pfitzner aon the Centaur labe.
She has been on the vocal faculty of the Peabody Institute for twenty two years.
