Bejun Mehta

Quick Facts

Full Name	Bejun Mehta
Occupation	Singer
Date Of Birth	Jun 29, 1968(1968-06-29)
Age	56
Birthplace	Laurinburg
Country	United States
Birth City	North Carolina
Horoscope	Gemini

Bejun Mehta Biography

Bejun Mehta is one of the most popular and richest Singer who was born on June 29, 1968 in Laurinburg, North Carolina, United States. Mehta is born in the year 1968 at Laurinburg, North Carolina, and was raised at Ann Arbor, Michigan. He was the son of Dady Mehta who is a piano player who was born in Shanghai, China, to Indian parents is a cousin of the conductor Zubin Mehta. His father was a professor of the piano department in Eastern Michigan University. The mother of his son, Martha Ritchey Mehta of Altoona, Pennsylvania, was journalist and soprano who was employed in the development department in the University of Michigan Museum of Art and was the son’s first voice instructor. He has a brother named Navroj Mehta an accomplished violinist and is the director for his own festival, the Ventura Music Festival.

In 1998, he was a part of in 1998 the Music Academy of the West summer conservatory course, and there Marilyn Horne, who knew about his accomplishments as a young soprano provided him with a scholarship by the Marilyn Horne Foundation, an organization that aims to create new talent and protect the art of recital singing. He made his debut in opera as a countertenor the same year, as Armindo in the New York City Opera production of Partenope by Handel. The following month, he took over in place of David Daniels, who was sick during a concert tour around the world.

The British composer George Benjamin wrote a lead role for him in his opera Written on Skin, which premiered in 2012 at Aix-en-Provence. In 2013 he gave a “visceral and beautifully-sung performance” in the world premiere recording of that opera. In 2014, Benjamin was at work on a new concert piece for Mehta that receives its world premiere in September 2015 at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw.

Mehta performs programmes with repertoire ranging from Baroque to contemporary music. He has performed at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, London’s Wigmore Hall, the Konzerthaus, Vienna and the Wiener Musikverein, Carnegie Hall and Zankel Hall, New York, the 92nd Street Y, Brussels’ Palais des Beaux-Arts, Palau des Arts Valencia, Madrid’s Teatro de la Zarzuela, Cité de la Musique, Paris, the Prinzregententheater Munich, and the festivals of Edinburgh, San Sebastian, Verbier, Schleswig-Holstein, and the BBC Proms in London. Mehta has also conducted the Belgian Baroque Orchestra B’Rock in concerts of Haydn and Mozart symphonies.

Mehta sang for a long time as a baritone, but without any success. “I was average, just average,” Mehta said. He began to explore performing with a countertenor voice following studying an article in 1997 New Yorker profile of the countertenor David Daniels, whose early experiences resembled his own.

Bejun Mehta Net Worth

Bejun Mehta is one of the richest Singer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Bejun Mehta 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Bejun Mehta (born June 29 1968) is an American countertenor from the United States. He has been honored with the Echo Klassik, the Gramophone Award, Le Diamant d’Opera Magazine and the Choc de Classica and the Traetta Prize, and has been considered for nominations to the Grammy Award, the Laurence Olivier Award and the Prix der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik. In The Suddeutsche Zeitung, Michael Stallknecht described him as “arguably the best counter tenor in the world today.”

Between the ages of nine until the age of fifteen Mehta performed as an individual boy, soprano at performances and recordings. On his debut CD on Delos in 1983 (Bejun DE 3019). Delos label from the year 1983 (Bejun DE 3019), Leonard Bernstein commented, “It is hard to believe the richness and maturity of musical understanding in this adolescent boy.” He was praised by Stereo Review publication Stereo Review to be the Debut Recording Artist of the Year.

Mehta’s CD Down by the Salley Gardens, a collection of English art song, was released in 2011 (with Julius Drake /Harmonia Mundi). Ombra Cara, Mehta’s recording of Handel arias (Freiburg Baroque Orchestra/René Jacobs/Harmonia Mundi), was awarded the 2011 Echo Klassik as Opera Recording of the Year. Mehta’s CDs and DVDs also include Agrippina (BBC Music Magazine’s 2012 Opera Award and nominated for a Grammy as Best Opera Recording of the Year) and Belshazzar, both on Harmonia Mundi, Theodora (C-Major Entertainment/Unitel, shortlisted for the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik), Mitridate (Decca), Messiah (Unitel Classics), and Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Glyndebourne Label), George Benjamin’s Written on Skin (Nimbus CD, BBC Magazine 2014 Premiere Recording of the Year), Benjamin’s Written on Skin (Opus Arte DVD, 2013 Royal Opera House, 2014 Gramophone Award-Contemporary). Mehta’s 2013 solo CD Che Puro Ciel (Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin/René Jacobs/Harmonia Mundi), a collection of classical arias and was awarded Le Diamant d’Opera Magazine, the Choc de Classica, and was shortlisted for the 2014 Gramophone Award in the Recital category. In 2014, Deutsche Grammophon/Archiv released a new complete studio recording of Orlando (opera) with Mehta in the title role (B’Rock/Jacobs), which was shortlisted for the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik. Also in 2014, ArtHaus released a theatrical film version of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice shot entirely on location at the Cesky Krumlov Theater in which Mehta both starred as Orfeo and was the artistic advisor. Mehta also appears on El Maestro Farinelli, Pablo Heras- Casado’s debut recording on Deutsche Grammophon/Archiv (2014), singing two of Farinelli’s most notable arias.

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