The young Russian-American soprano Yulia Van Doren has established herself as a rising star of the new generation of baroque specialists in débuts with the Portland Baroque Orchestra, Seattle Baroque Orchestra, American Bach Soloists and the Vancouver Early Music Festival. Recent seasons have also included débuts with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Phoenix Symphony, Asheville Symphony, Pacific Symphony, Tanglewood Music Festival, Colorado Music Festival, and Carnegie Hall. A passionate interpreter of twentieth-century and contemporary music, she made her European début singing the Hungarian première of Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. She sang two major rôles with the Boston Early Music Festival, Belinda in Dido and Aeneas, and Manto in Steffani’s Niobe, and in 2011–2012 made her début at the Macau International Music Festival, Opéra de Nice, Houston Symphony, and Music of the Baroque. The only singer to win top prizes in all four North American Bach vocal competitions, she was also a winner of Astral Artists’ 2009 National Auditions.