# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dawn-upshaw
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:59:47.281Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dawn-upshaw"
name: "Dawn Upshaw"
slug: "dawn-upshaw"
description: "Dawn Upshaw is an American soprano. She is the recipient of several Grammy Awards and has released a number of Edison Award-winning discs; she performs both opera and art song, and her repertoire spans Baroque to contemporary. Many composers, including Henri Dutilleux, Osvaldo Golijov, John Harbison, Esa-Pekka Salonen, David Bruce, John Adams, and Kaija Saariaho, have written for her. In 2007, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. In 2006, she founded the Graduate Vocal Arts Program at Bard College Conservatory in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, serving as artistic director until 2019. She currently serves as head of the Vocal Arts Program at the Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox, Massachusetts."
tagline: "American soprano"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/mUlN5pht2BRJ9mvm5sKDc4HEKYE.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1960-07-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.85
  momentum:             0.1078582434514638
  historical:           15.38056533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "dawnupshaw"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/Dawn-Upshaw-151499441576391"
    handle:    "Dawn-Upshaw-151499441576391"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
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    handle:    "nm0881471"
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    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_Upshaw"
    title: "Dawn Upshaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "داون وپشاو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dawn Upshaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_Upshaw"
    title: "Dawn Upshaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_Upshaw"
    title: "Dawn Upshaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dawn Upshaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_Upshaw"
    title: "Dawn Upshaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_Upshaw"
    title: "Dawn Upshaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dawn Upshaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_Upshaw"
    title: "Dawn Upshaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dawn Upshaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_Upshaw"
    title: "Dawn Upshaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_Upshaw"
    title: "Dawn Upshaw"
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    title: "Апшоу, Дон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dawn Upshaw"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump