A consummate soloist, he often performs in America with such orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras and the Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles Symphonies. In Europe, he has sung with the Berlin Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus, l'Orchestre National de France, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the London Sinfonietta among others, with such conductors as Barenboim, Dutoit, Gardiner, Leinsdorf, Masur, Mehta, Norrington, Ozawa, Rattle, Salonen, Slatkin and Zinman, to name a few.

John Aler's 1998-99 season began with performances of Messian's opera Saint François d'Assise at the Salzburg Festival and in Lucerne, Beethoven's Mass in C with the Florida Philharmonic under James Judd, and recitals at the Newport Festival. He will also travel to the Netherlands for performances of Proust in Paris with the Da Camera Society, sing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the New York Philharmonic and Kurt Masur and travel to Mexico's Cervantino Festival. This will be followed by performances with the Berlin Philharmonic under Kurt Masur in Honnegger's Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher, and with the Orchestre de Lyon and Emmanuel Krivine in Berlioz's L'enfance du Christ, also performed in Bamberg, Germany.

Other major performances this season include Corigliano's Dylan Trilogy with Maestro Slatkin and the National Symphony in Washington and the Carnegie Hall, as well as performances of Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges and L'Heure Espagnole with the Cleveland Orchestra and Pierre Boulez in Cleveland and Carnegie Hall .

1997/98 highlights included performances as The Evangelist in Bach's Saint Matthew Passion with the New York Philharmonic under Kurt Masur; performances of Pierné's The Children's Crusade with the National Symphony in Washington under Leonard Slatkin and the New York première of this work at Carnegie Hall. John Aler also joined Maestro Masur and the Israel Philharmonic in Avery Fischer Hall celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel.

John Aler has made over fifty recordings. Soon to be released is an Arabesque Recording of Haydn's opera L'Isola disabitata with the Padua Chamber Orchestra conducted by David Golub. Recent releases include Adolphe Adam's Le Toreador under Richard Bonynge with the Welsh Opera Orchestra for Decca; Berlioz Te Deum with the Voices of Ascension Chorus and Orchestra for Delos International; a solo collection on Delos entitled "Songs We Forgot to Remember"; the Glyndebourne Opera recording of The Merry Widow on EMI; a collection of songs by Berlioz for Deutsche Grammophon and Stravinsky's Pulcinella and Renard, with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Hugh Wolff for Teldec.

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