Jan Horvath
Jan Horvath was a member of the original Broadway company of The Phantom of the Opera with whom she performed the roles of both Christine and Carlotta. Other Broadway credits include The Threepenny Opera starring Sting, Sweet Charity starring Debbie Allen, Stardust and Oliver. In addition to her Broadway credits, Ms. Horvath sang the leading role of Grizabella in the National Touring Company of Cats.
Off-Broadway credits include the Mother in Yoko Ono's New York Rock (original cast recording on Capital Records), Svetlana in the revised version of Chess, and Jacques Brel is.... Internationally, she starred as Queen Isabella in the world premiere of Encounter 500 at La Sistina in Rome, Italy, and was featured in The Bernstein Mass at the Vatican as part of the Jubilee Celebration. She made her Carnegie Hall debut singing in Bernstein's Mass in 2002 and appeared with The New York Pops and the late Skitch Henderson in The 3 Broadway Divas concert. Regionally, Ms. Horvath has performed a variety of roles including Eva Peron in Evita, Aldonza in Man of La Mancha, Nellie Forbush in South Pacific, and Chairy Barnum in Barnum. She sang on the soundtrack for the animated film Anastasia.
For the past ten years, Ms. Horvath has been the soprano soloist with BRAVO Broadway! and is featured on the CDs BRAVO Broadway and BRAVO Broadway II. She has worked with such legendary talents as Marvin Hamlisch, Doc Severinsen, Erich Kunzel, Richard Hayman, Skitch Henderson and has appeared as a guest soloist with over one hundred orchestras including the Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Isarel Philharmonic (Tel Aviv), National Symphony Orchestra, The NY Pops, Minnesota Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Syracuse Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Utah Symphony, Honolulu Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, Brazilian Symphony Orchestra and Shanghai Radio Orchestra in China among many others. In May 2007, Ms. Horvath traveled to Hong Kong to perform with the Hong Kong Philharmonic and in July, she performed in an all Andrew Lloyd Webber concert in Palermo, Italy. In October 2007, Ms. Horvath performed with Pops concerts in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and travels to Prague in August, 2009 as a guest soloist at the Prague Festival. Ms. Horvath is a graduate of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. She is currently featured on the recently released CD entitled The 3 Broadway Divas with fellow Divas Debbie Gravitte and Christiane Noll.
In January 2008 Jan released her first solo CD as a singer/songwriter entitled NEVER TOO LATE. The critically acclaimed CD is an eclectic mix of musical styles and sentiments. (To hear some of her songs go to Myspace.com/janhorvath). She has also been featured on many other CDs including BRAVO BROADWAY I & II,THE THREE BROADWAY DIVAS,THE MUSICALITY OF ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER, CHICAGO AND ALL THAT JAZZ and SIMPLY MUSICALS. As a songwriter Jan had the incredible privilege of premiering her song "Immigrant's Anthem" with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra in 2005, and sang it again in 2006 with The Rochester Philharmonic . Her song “Barren Field” was used in the soundtrack for a fund raising video for Bethania Kids, (Bethaniakids.org) an organization which provides orphaned and underprivileged children in India with shelter and education.
Jan lives in New York City with gifted Italian-born painter/artist/poet, Rino Li Causi.
Links
To learn more about Jan, go to JanHorvath.com or MySpace.com/janhorvath
Sound clips
All That Jazz (MP3 format)
Don't Cry For Me Argentina (MP3 format)