Gitanjali Mathur, Soprano
Having sung on several GRAMMY®-nominated and GRAMMY®-winning CDs, Soprano, Gitanjali Mathur is hailed as having "skyrocketing coloratura", "fluid and dexterous voice", "piercingly clear soprano" and being a "natural and convincing comedic actress".
Originally from India, Ms. Mathur grew up learning North Indian Classical music. After moving to the US, she pursued South Indian Classical and Western Classical Voice Lessons. She continued her musical training by completing her Bachelors, Masters and Performer Diploma Degrees in Vocal Performance along with minors in Computer Science and Mathematics from Indiana University. Once Ms. Mathur moved to Austin, TX she started pursuing her career in Western Classical Music. She now performs regularly with Texas Early Music Project, Ensemble viii, La Follia, the Victoria Bach Festival, Oregon Bach Festival, GRAMMY®-nominated ensemble True Concord Voices and Orchestra, GRAMMY®-nominated ensemble Seraphic Fire and the GRAMMY®-winning ensemble, Conspirare. She has sung with the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, and made her debut with the Kaleidoscope Vocal Ensemble and The Five Boroughs Music Festival in 2022-2023. Ms. Mathur was nominated in 2018 in the Austin Critics Table Awards for “Classical Best Singer”.
Ms. Mathur made her solo Carnegie Hall debut with Helmuth Rilling in J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and fondly remembers her time singing with Maestro Rilling at the Oregon Bach Festival. She has performed in the lead female roles in Pergolesi’s Intermezzo “La Serva Padrona” in 2009, Telemann’s comic Opera “Pimpinone” in 2018, and “Galatea” in Handel’s “Acis and Galatea”with American Baroque Opera in 2022. In 2020, she birthed the idea, performed in, and co-produced an online talk-show style mini-series featuring lullabies and songs of comfort from around the world called “Night Music!”