She has captivated audiences across the globe in performances
of orchestral, chamber, and operatic works ranging
widely from Bach and Mozart to Andriessen and Crumb.The
San Francisco Chronicle has called her, "a composer’s
best friend--a new music interpreter of such intelligence,
commitment, and technical prowess that anything she
sings takes on a radiant life."
Her recent orchestral performances include the American
premiere of Scriabin’s Mysterium: Humanity with
the San Francisco Symphony, the world premiere of
Maurizio Kagel’s Duodramen at the Ars
Musica Festival in Brussels, the role of Pat Nixon
in excerpts from John Adams’ Nixon in China
with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the baton
of the composer, and Stravinsky’s Les Noces
with Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the San Francisco
Symphony at Carnegie Hall. Since 1991, she has been
a regular guest with the Schoenberg and Asko Ensembles
both in Holland and throughout Europe, including performances
at major music festivals in Paris, London, Warsaw,
Munich, London, and Vienna. She has also appeared
in recital at Carnegie Hall, the Liszt Academy in
Budapest, Tisch Center for the Arts at the 92nd Street
Y, American Academy in Rome, and many others. Her
recent chamber music appearances include the Chamber
Music Society of Lincoln Center, Da Camera of Houston,
the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, and the New York
premiere of Elliott Carter’s Tempo e Tempi
with Speculum Musicae.
Ms. Narucki has developed a reputation for innovative
and arresting programming. Her recital of works by
composers and authors who attended the MacDowell Colony
was enthusiastically received nationwide. Also of
great interest are her Holland-America Line program,
exploring the interrelationships between Dutch and
American composers and their music, and Twentieth
Century Masterworks, drawing artistic and aesthetic
connections between composers from the beginning of
the 20th century to the present.
Ms. Narucki recently made her Netherlands Opera debut
creating the role of Catherina Bolnes in Writing
to Vermeer, the collaboration of composer Louis
Andriessen and film director Peter Greenaway. Also
at the Netherlands Opera she was featured in the leading
soprano role in Reves d’un Marco Polo
by Claude Vivier. She created a major role in the
haunting work, To Be Sung, by composer Pascal
Dusapin and American artist James Turrell in a production
of the Theater des Amandiers in Paris. She has also
had roles in the Scarlatti opera Judith, Handel’s
Rinaldo, Gluck’s Orfeo, Ravel’s
L’enfant et les sortileges, and Messiaen’s
St. Francis of Assisi, among many others.
Ms. Narucki has had a remarkable eleven CDs released
in less than two years. In addition to her Grammy
Award-winning disc of George Crumb’s Star-Child
with the Warsaw Philharmonic (Bridge), she can
be heard on the Nonesuch, Philips, SONY Classical,
Chandos, Angel, and New World labels. Her forthcoming
releases include the world premiere recording of Elliott
Carter’s Tempo e Tempi (Bridge). 
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