Kevin Burdette
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Kevin Burdette is a singer (range: bass) who has worked as a soloist with the Metropolitan Opera, Seattle Opera, New York City Opera[1], Opéra de Montréal, Glimmerglass Opera[2], and the Spoleto Festival USA[3], as well as many regional opera companies including the Wolf Trap Opera Company, Opéra de Québec, Chicago Opera Theater, Gotham Chamber Opera, Toledo Opera, Knoxville Opera, Opera Grand Rapids, and the Lyric Opera of San Antonio.
His concert engagements have included solo work with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic[4], National Symphony Orchestra, American Symphony Orchestra, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Berkeley Symphony Orchestra (with Kent Nagano), Utah Symphony Orchestra (with Keith Lockhart), Boston Baroque, the EOS Orchestra, and the Virginia Symphony Orchestra at venues including Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Weill Recital Hall, Chicago's Orchestra Hall, and San Francisco's Davies Symphony Hall.
A recipient of the Richard F. Gold Career Grant awarded by the Shoshana Foundation[5] and the Dr. Marcia Robbins-Wilf Award, presented by New York City Opera to an artist who demonstrates outstanding dramatic ability, he has been a member of both l'Opéra National de Paris young artists' Program and the San Francisco Opera young artist program.[6]
Burdette received his Masters in Vocal Performance at the Juilliard School, two Bachelor of Arts degrees (B.A. in College Scholars and a B.A. in Music with a minor in history) from the University of Tennessee, and spent a year studying at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien. He was born and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee.
[edit] References
- ^ Alex Ross. "Fresh Faces", The New Yorker, 24 October 2005.
- ^ Anthony Tommasini. "Glimmerglass Finds Adventure in the Country", The New York Times, 4 August 2004.
- ^ Linday Koob. "Gluck’s operatic utopian farce surprises and delights", The Charleston City Paper, 23 May 2007.
- ^ Mark Swed. "`Deceit’ triumphs, and what a pleasure that is", The Los Angeles Times, 30 November 2006.
- ^ "Shoshana Foundation".
- ^ Joshua Kosman. "Trainees Get 'Giovanni' Right", The San Francisco Chronicle, 12 July 1999.
