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Orchestra and the English Chamber Orchestra. He toured extensively throughout
Europe with Il Complesso Barocco and
appeared with the Edinburgh, Ravinia,
Rheingau, Saint-Denis and Marlboro
music festivals, and at the BBC Proms.
He has also appeared in Carnegie Hall,
the Hollywood Bowl, the National Arts
Center in Ottawa and the Bolshoi. In
recital, he has been presented by Carnegie
Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art
in New York, the Philadelphia Chamber
Music Society, Oberlin Conservatory of
Music and the University of Chicago.
Mr. Phan’s most recent solo album,
Still Fall the Rain (AVIE) was named
one of the best classical recordings of
2012 by The New York Times. His first
solo album, Winter Words (AVIE) was
also critically acclaimed upon its release
in 2011.
stage direction by Peter Sellars. He has
also been heard with the Cleveland
Orchestra and National Symphony in
Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9; Rossini’s Stabat Mater at the Grant Park
Music Festival; Monterone in Rigoletto
and Zuniga in Carmen with the LA
Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel at the Hollywood Bowl; and
Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 (“Symphony
of a Thousand”) at the Aspen Music
Festival with Robert Spano. He has
also performed the bass-baritone roles
in Oedipus Rex for his debut with the
Chicago Symphony Orchestra under
Michael Tilson Thomas and the Los
Angeles Philharmonic under Esa-Pekka
Salonen in his final concerts as music
director with staging by Peter Sellars.
McKinny was heard in a special recital
of Schubert’s Die Winterreise during the
Sydney Festival, which was broadcast on
ABC, Australia’s public radio and has
been heard at the Aspen Music Festival
for a recital recreated on a program
originally performed by Jerome Hines
in June 1949.
Nicholas Phan last appeared with
the BSO in May 2012, performing
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, with Peter
Oundijan conducting.
American bass-baritone Ryan McKinny
has been praised
for his “elegant and
articulate” vocalism (OC Register), as
well as a powerful voice that “drips with
gold” (Opera News).
In the 2013–2014 season, McKinny
returns to Houston Grand Opera for
his role debut as the title role in Verdi’s
Rigoletto and to the Metropolitan Opera
as Theseus in Britten’s A Midsummer
Night’s Dream under James Conlon. He
will also be seen as Escamillo in Carmen
and Donner in Das Rheingold, both at
Houston Grand Opera. In concert, he
will be heard in recital at Wolf Trap and
Arizona Opera. In the summer of 2014,
McKinny will sing Lyrisart in Weber’s
Euryanthe at Bard SummerScape.
On the concert stage, McKinny
recently sang the world premiere of
Shostakovich’s uncompleted opera
Orango under Esa-Pekka Salonen and
the Los Angeles Philharmonic with
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Ryan McKinny is making his BSO debut.
The University of Maryland
Concert Choir
The University of Maryland Concert
Choir is composed of undergraduate and
graduate students chosen by audition from
throughout the College Park campus.
Since 2003, the UMD Concert Choir has
collaborated annually with the National
Symphony Orchestra in repertoire such
as Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and Die
Schöpfung by Haydn with Helmuth
Rilling, Messiah with Matthew Halls,
Bach’s Mass in B Minor with Iván Fischer,
Aliso n Har bau gh
Si m o n Pau ly
Ryan McKinny
The University of Maryland
Concert Choir
and most recently, the Mozart Requiem
under the baton of NSO Music Director
Christoph Eschenbach. Collaborations at
the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
with the UMD Symphony Orchestra have
included the Verdi Requiem, Brahms’ Ein
Deutsches Requiem Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri and the Mahler Symphony
#2. Students in the choral ensembles at
the University of Maryland School of Music perform a wide range of concerted and
a cappella repertoire, ranging from Medieval chant and Renaissance polyphony to
masterworks of the twentieth century and
premieres of contemporary compositions.
Under the direction of Edward Maclary, University of Maryland choral ensembles have established an international
reputation for excellence in performance.
Over the past decade UMD choral
ensembles have appeared by invitation
on multiple occasions at the conventions
of the Music Educators National Conference, the National Collegiate Choral
Organization and the American Choral
Directors Association and won numerous prizes in international competition.
In 2011, the UMD Chamber Singers
were awarded the Premier Prix for Mixed
Choirs and the Prix Ronsard for Renaissance singing at the Florilège Vocal de
Tours in France.
The University of Maryland Concert
Choir is making its BSO Debut.
The Peabody
Children’s Chorus
The Peabody Children’s Chorus, founded
in 1989, is dedicated to providing age-appropriate vocal training for young people.
The Chorus brings children together to
rehearse and perform art and folk music
of multiple cultures, languages, historical periods and styles. In six ensembles
rehearsing in Towson or Columbia, young
people gain invaluable experience making
music in ensemble settings, and studying
ear-training and music-reading.
Four-hundred children between the ages
of six and 18 participate each year in three
levels of training, rehearsing high quality
treble music of advancing challenge and