Voice Instrument: Baritone
Bio:

Luc Kleiner, “l’artiste interdisciplinaire… sublime voix de baryton” (Place des Arts), is an accomplished soloist and sought-after ensemble artist from Los Angeles. Kleiner has toured internationally, returning to the Salzburg Festival as a soloist with the LA Master Chorale in Peter Sellars’ inspired interpretation of Schütz’s Musikalische Exequien. Kleiner also toured around the globe with the chorale in Sellars’s “spine-tingling a capella staging” of Lagrime di San Pietro by Orlando di Lasso (Auckland Arts Festival). 

After performing the role of “Threat from Within” in the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s monumental premiere of Stranger Love, a six-hour opera by Dylan Mattingly, Kleiner was described as “darkly seductive” by The New York Times, yet has also been praised as having “vocal tone and color as heavenly as the stars… gentle and emotive” by Singerpreneur. 

Kleiner continues to shape a versatile career as a composer/arranger; a recording artist for film and television soundtracks (including Wicked, Star Wars, & How to Train Your Dragon); a co-founder of Musica Transalpina Baroque Ensemble; an active participant in shape-note and Sacred Harp singing around the country; an avant-pop musical and visual artist; and as a lecturer in voice studies at several Southern California schools, including Pomona College.