The College of Music is pleased to present the faculty voice recital of Evan Jones, baritone, on Friday, March 2, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. in Opperman Music Hall.

Originally from Buffalo, NY, baritone Evan Thomas Jones has enjoys a diverse performing career in opera, musical theater, concert, and recital.

In opera, notable roles include Figaro in both Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Le Nozze di Figaro, the title role in Don Giovanni, Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, Junius in The Rape of Lucretia, and Sam in Trouble in Tahiti.  Highlights in musical theater and operetta include, Voltaire and Pangloss in Candide, Danilo Danilovich in The Merry Widow, Fredrik Egerman in A Little Night Music, and Dr. Falke and Frank in Die Fledermaus. In concert he has been featured as a soloist in Orff’s Carmina Burana, the Brahms and Fauré Requiems, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, and Bach's Magnificat and St. Matthew's Passion. He is particularly in demand as an interpreter of the concert repertoire of Ralph Vaughn Williams, having frequently performed the Five Mystical Songs, Serenade to Music, Dona Nobis Pacem, and Fantasia On Christmas Carols. Mr. Jones has sung with Opera Memphis, Opera Naples, Berkshire Opera Company, Compañía Lírica Nacional de Costa Rica, Finger Lakes Opera, Mercury Opera, the Buffalo and Rochester Philharmonic Orchestras, the Memphis and Jackson Symphonies as well the Finger Lakes Choral Festival, and the Augusta Choral Society.

The 2017-2018 season includes recitals in Eugene, Reno, and Memphis. This summer he will be a guest artist with the Orvieto Musica Festival in Italy and will make his company debut with the Tanglewood Music Festival as Pangloss and Voltaire in Bernstein’s Candide.

The program will include:

Rastlose Liebe, Z. 124 and Um Mitternacht, Z. 126 by Carl Friedrich Zelter

Aus Goethes Faust, Op. 75, No. 3 by Ludwig van Beethoven

Prometheus, D. 674; Wer nie sein Brot mit Thränen aß, D. 478; and Willkommen und Abschied, D. 767 by Franz Schubert

Goethe Lieder by Hugo Wolf

Dark the Star by James Primosch

Featuring:

Timothy Hoekman, piano

Deborah Bish, clarinet

Gregory Sauer, cell

Heidi Louise Williams, piano

Jacob Kight, percussion

Keith Dodson, conductor

This event is free and open to the public.