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Grammy Winning Baritone John Brancy‘s intense musicality and communicative power place him among the finest of baritones of his generation.  Hailed by the New York Times as “a vibrant, resonant presence,” and a “Suavely warm baritone…dashing” Brancy won First Prize in the Art Song Division of the 2018 Concours Musical International de Montreal. A win that recognized him as a premiere interpreter of Art Song repertoire in our time.  The New Jersey native also won First Prize in the 2018 Lotte Lenya Competition in New York, Second Prize at the 2017 Wigmore Hall Competition in London. He is also a past winner of the Marilyn Horne Song Competition and the Sullivan Foundation Grand Prize.

Brancy recently debuted the role of Escamillo with MasterVoices in October of 2022 at Jazz at Lincoln Center Theater directed by Sammi Cannold, debuted the world premiere of La Beaute du Monde with Opera de Montreal in the role of Franz Wolff Metternich, and returned to perform with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra (Handel’s Messiah). He will reprise conductor/composer Alexander Prior’s Winterreise for Baritone and Orchestra at Theatre Erfurt this February and debut the role of Jake Wallace in Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West under the baton of Franz Welser-Möst at the Cleveland Orchestra. Brancy is currently preparing to make his debut at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in their 75th anniversary performing The Artisan & The Collector in a new world premiere opera by Sir George Benjamin entitled Picture A Day Like This, which will also have it’s premiere next fall at the Royal Opera Covent Garden. Brancy continues to present his world renowned rendition of the National Anthem at Madison Square Garden in conjunction with the NY Rangers NHL Hockey Team.

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