Actor and tenor who joined the Atlanta Symphony Chamber Chorus and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus in 1994. He has sung solos in Bela Bartok’s Cantata profana, Felix Mendelssohn’s Elijah, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Entfuhrung aus dem Serail. In 1997, he appeared on A Robert Shaw Christmas: Angels on High.
He played a teacher in the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music production of OsvaldoGolijov’s opera, Ainadamar, on 10th August 2003. In 2006, he reprised his role on the recording of same, as well as the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus CD, Copland: Motets; Durufle: Gregorian Motets; Tavener: Song for Athene; Vaughan Williams: Mass in G minor for Double Choir; Messiaen & Tallis: O sacrum convivium, and the various-artists compilation, MoMu Vol. 2 – Moderne Musik fur Einsteiger und Kenner.
He played a Japanese envoy in the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s mounting of Igor Stravinsky’s opera, The Nightingale, in the autumn of 2009.
Robert Shaw Chamber Singers recordings
Adeste Fidelis (Frederick Oakeley/John Francis Wade)
Telarc 80461 (CD: A Robert Shaw Christmas: Angels On High)
Arranger – Alice Parker
Sources:
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