Biography

Eugene Brancoveanu (Ned Keene) is a graduate of the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz and the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg. He was previously an Adler Fellow at San Francisco Opera and a member of the Merola Opera Program. Mr. Brancoveanu’s 2013-14 season includes Fauré’s Requiem with the Spokane Symphony and Leporello in Don Giovanni with Opera San José. Other recent appearances include Lancelot in Camelot with Virginia Opera, Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer with the Peninsula Symphony, Mozart’s Requiem with the Fresno Philharmonic, La Bohème for Livermore Valley Opera, and a recital at Brookings Harbor Friends of Music. In previous seasons he sang the title role in Shostakovich’s opera, Orango with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the role of The Pilot in Rachel Portman’s The Little Prince at San Francisco Opera. He has also appeared in productions of Michael Tilson Thomas’s The Thomashevskys, which he reprised for his San Francisco Symphony debut in 2005.

(June 2014)