Goran Jurić

The Croatian bass Goran Jurić was born in 1983 and studied at the Music Academy of the University of Zagreb with Vlatka Oršanić. In 2005 he won the First Prize at the State Vocal Competition in Dubrovnik, and in 2010 the Second Prize at the International Mikuláš-Schneider-Trnavský Competition in Trnava (Slovakia), where he also was awarded the special prizes of the opera houses in Bratislava and Prague; this was followed by a First Prize at the International Iris-Adami-Corradetti Competition in Padua.

At the Croatian National Theater in Zagreb, Goran Jurić has already been heard in the roles of Plutone and Caronte in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo as well as Sarastro in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. He sang the bass solo in Orlando Jacinto García’s Transcending Time at the Zagreb Music Biennial in 2009 and Colas in Mozart’s Bastien und Bastienne at the Epidaurus Festival in Cavtat (Croatia) in 2008. In the summers of 2008 and 2009, he made guest appearances at the Dubrovnik Festival as Polyphemus in Handel’s Acis and Galatea. In March 2011 he made his debut at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome as the High Priest in Verdi’s Nabucco conducted by Riccardo Muti.

On the concert podium, Goran Jurić has been heard as Frère Dominique in Honegger’s Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher, as Ivan in Berislav Šipuš’ Osorski plač, in Schubert’s Mass in E flat, Handel’s Dettinger Te Deum and Messiah, in Charpentier’s Te Deum, Mozart’s Requiem, Haydn’s Nelson Mass, Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu nostri, and as Fyodor Basmanov in Prokofiev’s Ivan the Terrible, among others.