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Soprano Yulia Van Doren joined the Astral Artists roster as a winner of its 2009 National Auditions. Described as having “the perfect baroque voice” (Seattle Times), she has received much attention in her young career, especially for her work in baroque music, and is regularly engaged with the leading North American early music festivals and ensembles. In the 2009-2010 season, Ms. Van Doren returns to the Phoenix Symphony, American Bach Soloists, and Mercury Baroque, and debuts with the Asheville Symphony, UC Davis Symphony Orchestra, and Philadelphia’s Symphony in C. She makes her European debut in Budapest with the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and tours to Moscow with Mark Morris Dance Group’s Dido and Aeneas. Baroque chamber music also figures prominently in her schedule this season, including tours with ensembles Les Voix Baroques and Harmonious Blacksmith, and a concert of Italian vocal music with internationally renowned ensemble Tragicomedia. Ms. Van Doren received a Master’s degree in 2008 from Bard College as a member of the first class of soprano Dawn Upshaw’s innovative new graduate vocal program. While in school she balanced a busy professional career, including debuts with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Baroque Orchestra, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Pacific Symphony Orchestra, and American Bach Soloists. She toured as Belinda with Mark Morris’s Dido and Aeneas and made her Carnegie Hall debut premièring a work commissioned for her by the Weill Institute. Ms. Van Doren has been awarded top prizes in the International Bach Vocal Competition and the American Bach Soloists’ Competition, and is featured on two Grammy-nominated opera recordings with the Boston Early Music Festival. She has studied with James Levine as a Tanglewood Fellow, Richard Egarr, and Michael Chance as a member of the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme, and with Christophe Rousset in Villecroze, France. Born in Moscow and raised in an eclectic, music-filled household, Ms. Van Doren and her seven younger siblings were taught voice and piano by her Russian mother and American jazz pianist father.