Soprano Juliana Gondek is internationally renowned for her performances in opera and concert, lauded for her interpretations of Mozart, Baroque, bel canto, and contemporary repertoire. She has performed with many of the major conductors of the world including Herbert von Karajan, Leonard Bernstein, James Levine, Carlos Kleiber, and Robert Shaw, in leading roles at the Metropolitan Opera, Netherlands Opera, Scottish Opera, San Francisco, Houston, New York City, Dallas, Seattle, Miami, St. Louis, Utah, and Baltimore Operas. She has sung at the Salzburg Festival, Edinburgh Festival, Avignon Festival, Göttingen and Halle Handel Festivals, Antibe's Bel Canto Festival, Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart, Marlboro, Caramoor, Newport, and the Bard Festivals.

Miss Gondek has created leading roles in six opera world premieres: Ela in David Carlson's Dreamkeepers, the triple role of Dianne Feinstein/Harvey's Mama/Hooker in Stewart Wallace/Michael Korie's Harvey Milk, the title role in Stewart Wallace/Michael Korie's Hopper's Wife, Sabina in David Diamond’s The Noblest Game, La Madre in Ian Krouse’s Lorca, Child of the Moon and The Sphinx in Paul Chihara’s Oedipus. She has performed the leading roles in Leonard Bernstein's A Quiet Place and Bright Sheng's The Song of Majnun. She has appeared with nearly all of the major North American symphony orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic and the San Francisco Symphony, as well as many prominent European orchestras, such as the Netherlands Radio Orchestra and L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.

Her discography includes recordings of Harvey Milk on the Teldec label, Handel operas Ottone, Radamisto, Giustino, and Ariodante (winner of the 1996 Gramophone Record of the Year Award) on the Harmonia Mundi label, music of Bright Sheng with the Hong Kong Philharmonic and Hugo Weisgall’s Esther with the Seattle Symphony on Naxos, the complete songs of Karol Szymanowski on Channel Chalssics (winner of the “Fryderyk Prize for best recording of Polish music), Mozart's Exsultate jubilate on Sonoris, vocal chamber music on Orion (winner of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation Prize), Bernstein’s West Side Story for DGG and a "Live from the Met" telecast and videodisc recording of Die Zauberflöte with the Metropolitan Opera.

Juliana Gondek has presented song recitals in the world's leading concert halls, including Geneva's Grand Theater, Venice's Teatro La Fenice, Lucerne's Festival Hall, Kitara Concert Hall in Sapporo, Japan, Carnegie Recital Hall, Boston's Jordan Hall, Pittsburgh's Frick Museum, and the Ambassador Auditorium in Los Angeles. She won back-to-back gold medals in the Geneva and Barcelona International Singing Competitions and the National Endowment for the Arts Solo Recitalist Award for her concert series The Art of Polish Song.

Recent performances include her Los Angeles Philharmonic debut under Gerard Schwarz, her debut with the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, appearances at the Bowdoin International Music Festival and the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival and the premiere of Paul Chihara’s Magnificat at Royce Hall in Los Angeles. She sang the New York premiere of Bright Sheng’s Songs from the Sung Dynasty at Carnegie Hall and their Asian premiere with the Hong Kong Philharmonic under Samuel Wong. She gave a recital of Mahler, Strauss, Berg and Schoenberg as part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s “Order and Disorder” series. In 2002 she sang Hans Werner Henze’s The Bassarids at the Concertgebouw with Anja Silja and the Dutch Radio Symphony Orchestra under Markus Stenz.

Ms. Gondek has recorded the complete songs of Karol Szymanowski for Channel Classics in Amsterdam.