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Known for his wide range of repertoire and creative programming,
the distinguished Austrian conductor Hans Graf is one of today's
most highly respected musicians.
Mr. Graf was chosen to be the Music Director of the Houston
Symphony in 2000 and began his tenure with the orchestra in
September 2001. Prior to his appointment in Houston, he was the
music director of the Calgary Philharmonic for eight seasons and
held the same post with the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine
for six years. He also led the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra from
1984 to 1994.
Hans Graf is a frequent guest with all of the major North
American orchestras. His recent and upcoming guest engagements
include appearances with the Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras,
the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics, the San Francisco, St.
Louis, Cincinnati, Detroit, Dallas, Baltimore, Vancouver, Atlanta
and National symphonies and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra among
others. Over the past decade he developed a close relationship with
the Boston Symphony and has appeared regularly with the orchestra
during the subscription season and at the Tanglewood Music
Festival. Mr. Graf made his Carnegie Hall debut with the Houston
Symphony in January 2006 and returned to Carnegie leading the
Orchestra of St. Luke's in March 2007. He and the Houston Symphony
were invited to appear at Carnegie Hall once again in January 2010
at which time they presented the New York premiere of The Planets -
An HD Odyssey, featuring exclusive high definition images from
NASA's exploration of the solar system accompanied by Holst's
famous work, The Planets.
Internationally, Hans Graf conducts in the foremost concert
halls of Europe, Japan and Australia. Recent and upcoming
international appearances include the Vienna Philharmonic, Vienna
Symphony, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Leipzig Gewandhaus
Orchestra as well as the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Deutsches
Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Orchestra, Rotterdam
Philharmonic, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Netherlands Radio
Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony and Malaysian Philharmonic. In
October 2010, Mr. Graf leads the Houston Symphony on a tour of the
UK which includes performances in Birmingham, Edinburgh, Leeds,
Manchester and two performances at the Barbican in London.
Mr. Graf has participated in such prestigious European festivals
as the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Bregenz and Aix en Provence and
appeared at the Salzburg Festival for twelve consecutive seasons.
In summer 2010, Graf conducts the opening concert of the Aspen
Music Festival and returns to Tanglewood and Chicago's Grant Park
Festival.
An experienced opera conductor, Mr. Graf first conducted the
Vienna State Opera in 1981 and has since led productions in the
opera houses of Berlin, Munich, Paris and Rome among others. His
extensive opera repertoire includes several world premieres. Recent
opera engagements include Parsifal at the Zurich Opera and Boris
Godunov at the Opera National du Rhin in Strasbourg.
Born in 1949 near Linz, Hans Graf studied violin and piano as a
child. He earned diplomas in piano and conducting from the
Musikhochschule in Graz and continued his conducting studies with
Franco Ferrara in Siena, Sergiu Celibidache in Bologna and Arvid
Jansons in Weimar and Leningrad. Mr. Graf served as the Music
Director of the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra in Baghdad during
the 1975-76 season and the following year began coaching at the
Vienna State Opera. His international career was launched in 1979
when he was awarded first prize at the Karl Böhm Competition.
Hans Graf has recorded for the EMI, Orfeo, CBC, Erato, Capriccio
and JVC labels and his discography includes the complete symphonies
of Mozart and Schubert, the premiere recording of Zemlinsky's opera
Es war einmal and the complete works of Dutilleux for BMG Arte
Nova. His recordings with the Houston Symphony include works by
Bartok and Stravinsky for Koch International, Zemlinsky's Lyric
Symphony and Berg's Three Pieces from the Lyric Suite for Naxos and
a DVD of The Planets - An HD Odyssey, available through the Houston
Symphony.
Mr. Graf has been awarded the Chevalier de l'ordre de la Legion
d'Honneur by the French government for championing French music
around the world as well as the Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold
for Services to the Republic of Austria.
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Since his triumph as winner of the 1970 Chopin International
Piano Competition, pianist Garrick Ohlsson has established himself
worldwide as a musician of magisterial interpretive and technical
prowess. Although long regarded as one of the world's leading
exponents of the music of Frédéric Chopin, Mr. Ohlsson commands an
enormous repertoire, which ranges over the entire piano literature.
A student of the late Claudio Arrau, Mr. Ohlsson has come to be
noted for his masterly performances of the works of Mozart,
Beethoven and Schubert, as well as the Romantic repertoire. To date
he has at his command more than 80 concertos, ranging from Haydn
and Mozart to works of the 21st century, many commissioned for
him.
An exponent of Busoni's rarely programmed piano concerto, Mr.
Ohlsson will bring it to the National Symphony (Washington) and
London's Barbican with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in the fall of
2014. 2015 marks the centenary of the death of Alexander Scriabin
whose piano music Mr. Ohlsson will present in a series of recitals
in London, San Francisco, Chicago and New York. He will also return
to the orchestras of San Francisco, Detroit, Dallas, Houston,
Baltimore, Minnesota, BBC Scotland and Prague where he is a
frequent guest.
The 2013-14 season included recitals in Montreal, Philadelphia,
San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle and Kansas City, culminating in
February in Carnegie Hall with a program including Beethoven,
Schubert, Chopin and excerpts from his recording of works of
Charles Tomlinson Griffes. In January, he returned to the Boston
Symphony to play Lutoslawski's piano concerto, and to the
orchestras of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Atlanta and Cleveland.
Performances outside North America included Stockholm (Sweden), São
Paolo (Brazil), and Hong Kong (China), in addition to a Dvořák
project with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Ivan Fischer at
Lincoln Center.
An avid chamber musician, Mr. Ohlsson has collaborated with the
Cleveland, Emerson, Takács and Tokyo string quartets, among other
ensembles. Together with violinist Jorja Fleezanis and cellist
Michael Grebanier, he is a founding member of the San
Francisco-based FOG Trio. Passionate about singing and singers, Mr.
Ohlsson has appeared in recital with such legendary artists as
Magda Olivero, Jessye Norman, and Ewa Podleś.
Mr. Ohlsson can be heard on the Arabesque, RCA Victor Red Seal,
Angel, BMG, Delos, Hänssler, Nonesuch, Telarc, and Virgin Classics
labels. His ten-disc set of the complete Beethoven sonatas, for
Bridge Records, has garnered critical acclaim, including a GRAMMY®
for Vol. 3. His recording of Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 3, with
the Atlanta Symphony and Robert Spano, was released in 2011. In the
fall of 2008 the English label Hyperion re-released his 16-disc set
of the complete works of Chopin. Hyperion released a disc in 2010
of all the Brahms piano variations and "Goyescas, by
Enrique Granados, and music of Charles Tomlinson Griffes. The
latest CDs in his ongoing association with Bridge Records are
"Close Connections," a recital of 20th-Century pieces, and two CDs
of works by Liszt. In recognition of the Chopin bicentenary
in 2010, Mr. Ohlsson was featured in a documentary "The Art of
Chopin" co-produced by Polish, French, British and Chinese
television stations. Most recently, both Brahms concerti and
Tchaikovsky's second piano concerto were released on "live"
performance recordings with the Melbourne and Sydney Symphonies on
their own recording labels, and Mr. Ohlsson was featured on
Dvorak's piano concerto in the Czech Philharmonic's live recordings
of the composer's complete symphonies & concertos, released
July of 2014 on the Decca label.
A native of White Plains, N.Y., Garrick Ohlsson began his piano
studies at the age of 8, at the Westchester Conservatory of Music;
at 13 he entered The Juilliard School, in New York City. His
musical development has been influenced in completely different
ways by a succession of distinguished teachers, most notably
Claudio Arrau, Olga Barabini, Tom Lishman, Sascha Gorodnitzki,
Rosina Lhévinne and Irma Wolpe. Although he won First Prizes at the
1966 Busoni Competition in Italy and the 1968 Montréal Piano
Competition, it was his 1970 triumph at the International Chopin
Competition in Warsaw, where he won the Gold Medal (and remains the
single American to have done so), that brought him worldwide
recognition as one of the finest pianists of his generation. Since
then he has made nearly a dozen tours of Poland, where he retains
immense personal popularity. Mr. Ohlsson was awarded the Avery
Fisher Prize in 1994 and received the 1998 University Musical
Society Distinguished Artist Award in Ann Arbor, MI. He is also the
2014 recipient of the Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance
from the Northwestern University Bienen School of Music. He makes
his home in San Francisco.
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"With her dramatic tumble of red hair and cello-mello voice, Ms.
Fischer sings with a passionate restraint that has no equal in her
generation. You didn't want her to stop," so said the New York
Times following Abigail Fischer's performance of George
Benjamin's Upon Silence with St. Luke's Orchestra at New
York Philharmonic's Biennial. Ms. Fischer has 'also received praise
for her creation of Mrs. X.E. in Du Yun's Pulitzer Prize-winning
opera Angel's Bone at Prototype Festival, and Isabelle
Eberhardt in Missy Mazzoli's one-woman opera Song from the
Uproar with Beth Morrison Projects and the NOW Ensemble.
Following acclaimed performances at Los Angeles Opera and
Chautauqua Opera, Ms. Fischer will reprise Isabelle with Beth
Morrison Projects at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in
the 2016-17 season, and with Cincinnati Opera in the summer of
2017. Other engagements in the 2016-17 season include her Italian
stage debut in Toshio Hosakawa's The Raven with Orchestra
Haydn in Bolzano, Messiah with Duke Chapel Choir and
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass and Maurice
Duruflé's Requiem with New York Choral Society, and a program
of Vivaldi motets with Mercury Houston.
Known for her "serenely captivating" work in opera "and
disarming intimacy" (New York Times), Ms. Fischer recently
performed the tile role in alternative productions of
Carmen at Colorado Music Festival and Bay Chamber Concerts
in Rockport, Maine. She has sung the title role in The Rape of
Lucretia with Opera Memphis, the premiere of Lee Hoiby's
This is the Rill Speaking with American Opera Projects,
Eötvös' Angels in America with Los Angeles Philharmonic,
and Angelina in La cenerentola with Union Avenue (in
Italian) and Salt Marsh Opera (in English). Other recent premieres
included Mrs. X.E. in Angel's Bone and the Mother in
Stefan Weisman's Scarlet Ibis at Prototype
Festival. With Gotham Chamber Opera, Ms. Fischer performed Testo in
Monteverdi's Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda and
Eva in Martinů's Comedy on the Bridge.
A performer of repertoire ranging from contemporary to early
music, Ms. Fischer has made a vibrant career as a concert soloist.
With the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Ms. Fischer performed
semi-staged versions of Strauss' Salome and Mendelssohn's
A Midsummer Night's Dream; and with Columbus Symphony she
has performed Lieberson's Neruda Songs. She has worked
with American Bach Soloists in programs of Vivaldi's Gloria,
Handel's La resurrezione, Porpora's De Profundis
clamavi, and Bach's Magnificat; REBEL Baroque
Orchestra in Mozart's Mass in C minor and Handel's
Messiah; and with Early Music New York in programs of
Vivaldi motets. She has performed repertoire with the Kansas City
Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Rhode Island Philharmonic
Orchestra, Virginia Symphony Orchestra, and Boston Baroque.
Recordings of Ms. Fischer's includes the operas Song from
the Uproar (Missy Mazzoli), The Judgement of Midas
(Kamran Ince); the oratorios Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass(Boston
Baroque), Katrina Ballads (Ted Hearne); the chamber works
Mothertongue (Nico Muhly), The Quality of Mercy
(Patrick Castillo), and numerous works of John Zorn.
Originally trained as a cellist, Ms. Fischer has worked often as
a chamber musician, from Musicians of Marlboro Music Festival,
Chamber Music Northwest, to St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble. She has
premiered works of Elliot Carter and Bernard Rand at Tanglewood
Music Festival, Nico Muhly at Lincoln Center, numerous works by
John Zorn throughout the world. A graduate of Eastman School of
Music (MM), and Vassar College (BA), Lorenzo di Medici in Florence,
Italy (Certificate in Italian language and literature); Ms. Fischer
now studies with Stephen King in Houston, and lives with her
partner in Greenwood Lake, NY.
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Caleb Mayo hails from Marblehead, Massachusetts, and is honored
to be making his Boston Symphony Orchestra debut.
Stage: Los Angeles: Hamlet (Inner Circle
Theatre), Antigone, The Beaux Stratagem (A Noise
Within), Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night's
Dream (Knightsbridge Theatre); Washington DC: Cyrano,
Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2, A Midsummer Night's
Dream, The Rivals (The Shakespeare Theatre); Boston:
Twelfth Night (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company), To
Kill A Mockingbird (Huntington Theatre Company);Lewiston:
Moonshine (The Public Theatre); Film:
One-Eyed Monster, Plato's Symposium, The Time Machine, Hoax,
The Proposition, 10,000 AD; TV: Criminal
Minds; Web: In Tune, For Science. He
holds a Bachelor of Arts in Drama from Vassar College and has
studied with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, The American
Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare and Company, Rebel Shakespeare
Company and The Beverly Hills Playhouse.
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Karen MacDonald is a Boston native
and delighted to be making her Boston Symphony Orchestra debut.
Last year, she premiered A Soldier's Carol with the Boston
Holiday Pops. Her work this past season included 77% (
Martha's Vineyard Playhouse) Sweet and Sad (Gloucester
Stage Co.) Ulysses on Battles ( Israeli Stage)
Red Hot Patriot: The Kick Ass Wit of Molly Ivins (Lyric
Stage). On Broadway, she understudied and performed the role of
Amanda Wingfield in John Tiffany's recent revival of The Glass
Menagerie. Other regional credits include Ether Dome,
Ryan Landry's M, Good People, Bus Stop,
All My Sons, A Civil War Christmas (Huntington
Theatre Co.); That Hopey Changey Thing, Doubt
(Stoneham Theatre); Other Desert Cities, The Drowsy
Chaperone (Speakeasy Stage); Coriolanus, All's
Well That Ends Well, Hamlet, Twelfth Night (Commonwealth
Shakespeare Company); Long Day's Journey Into Night, boom
(New Repertory Theatre); Superior Donuts (Lyric Stage);
The Color of Rose (ArtsEmerson); Two Wives in
India (Boston Playwrights' Theatre); The Blonde, The
Brunette and The Vengeful Redhead, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf,
A Moon for the Misbegotten (Merrimack Repertory Theatre);
The Snow Queen, Third (Portland Stage) as well as,
Hartford Stage, Berkshire Theatre Festival. A founding company
member of the American Repertory Theatre, she appeared in 70
productions, including Endgame, The Sea Gull, Mother Courage,
Island of Slaves, No Exit, Olly's Prison, Highway Ulysses, Othello,
The Imaginary Invalid, Richard II, and A Midsummer Night's
Dream. Internationally, she has appeared at festivals in Asti,
Avignon, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Israel and the former Yugoslavia.
Nationally she has worked extensively, from Philadelphia's Wilma
Theatre to Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Her directing credits
include Gidion's Knot (Bridge Rep); An Ideal Husband,
Woman in Black (Gloucester Stage) and Dressed Up! Wigged
Out!! (Boston Playwrights Theatre). She is the recipient of
several Elliot Norton and IRNE Awards for her performances. Ms.
MacDonald received both the Robert Brustein Award for Sustained
Achievement in the Theatre and the Norton Prize for Sustained
Excellence in 2010. A graduate of the College of Fine Arts at
Boston University, she was the Monin Fellow at Boston College
2010-11, and teaches Acting to undergraduates and extension school
students at Harvard University.
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Will Lyman is well known to Boston
audiences for his work with many local theater companies. A
founding board member of Commonwealth Shakespeare Co., he has
appeared there as Brutus, Prospero, Claudius, and last summer's
King Lear. He has also been seen at the Huntington in
All My Sons, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and
Dead End; at New Rep in Long Day's Journey into
Night, Exits and Entrances, Clean House, and
Ice Breaker; at Speakeasy in The Dying Gaul, at
Wheelock in To Kill a Mockingbird, at Boston Playwrights'
Theatre in The Wrestling Patient (in collaboration with
Speakeasy), King of the Jews, and A Girl's War,
and at the Nora in Equus and Operation Epsilon. Elsewhere
in the U.S. he has performed with the Denver Center, Hartford
Stage, Pennsylvania Stage, American Place, George Street Playhouse,
and NJ Shakespeare, as well as in several off-Broadway productions
in New York. He has narrated in performances with the National
Symphony (Ivan the Terrible) and acted in conjunction with
the Cleveland Orchestra (Tom Stoppard/André Previn's Every Good
Boy Deserves Favor) and the Handel and Haydn Society (Benda's
Medea.) Mr. Lyman is a multiple recipient of both Norton
and IRNE awards and was honored with the Howard Keel Award for
service to the Screen Actors Guild. He was given 2013's Norton
Award for Sustained Excellence and 2015's NETC Award. On television
he has appeared in episodes of Crossbow, Hull High, Threat Matrix,
and Commander in Chief and in the TV movies Meltdown, Our Fathers,
Three Sovereigns for Sarah, and George Washington. Feature film
credits include A Perfect Murder, The Siege, Welcome to the
Dollhouse, Mystic River, Little Children (narrator), and
What Doesn't Kill You. He has narrated the PBS public
affairs program Frontline since the second season. On a
more whimsical note, he also voices the long-running "Most
Interesting Man in the World" ads, and has appeared as himself on
The Simpsons.
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Bill Barclay, a composer, actor, writer, and director, is
the Director of Music at Shakespeares Globe Theatre in London and
the first American to join the theatre staff in the company's 17
year history. A Weston, MA native and Shakespeare specialist,
he has composed for the Globe (3 seasons), Shakespeare &
Company in Lenox, Massachusetts (11 seasons, company member), the
Actors Shakespeare Project in Boston (9 seasons, Resident Acting
Company member), and the Tanglewood Music Center (4 seasons).
Bill was a member of the Acting Company at The Mercury Theatre in
Colchester, England from 2009-2012, and makes his Broadway debut
with this season's Twelfth Night and Richard
III, starring Mark Rylance and Stephen Fry, as Music
Consultant. Bills original musical works include Call of the
Wild,Three Sisters, The Hamlet Symphony, Everyman Found,
and The Mad Pirate and the Mermaid; his solo performances
include Muse on Fire: Shakespeare & the Music of the
Spheres, which has been performed over a dozen times across
the US and UK. He has performed roles or composed original scores
for The Huntington Theatre, SpeakEasy Stage, W.H.A.T., Central
Square Theatre, North Shore Music Theatre, the Vineyard Playhouse,
The Olney Theatre Center, Connecticut Rep, La MaMa ETC, and Theater
Row (NYC), among others. He has held artist residencies at
universities across the country, has taught acting at Emerson
College and Boston University, and been a guest lecturer at Harvard
University. In addition to recurring roles on
Showtime (Brotherhood) and PBS, Bill can be seen in the
filmsOcean Boulevard and The Time
Machine (DreamWorks). In addition to his work with the BYSO,
he has collaborated with the ALEA III Orchestra, the Longwood
Symphony Orchestra, and the Aurea Ensemble (which commissioned his
latest concert work, Five Sonnets to Orpheus), and is a
founding member of The Mahagonny Ensemble in Poughkeepsie, New
York. A winner of the Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowship (the
largest grant for actors in the US), and the Boston Globe Monologue
Scholarship Competition, he is a two-time Elliot Norton Award
nominee for sound design, and has twice received Metlifes Meet the
Composer Grants. A 1999 Weston High School grad, Bill is an alumnus
of Vassar College and the National Theatre Institute, and earned
his MFA at the Boston University School of Theatre. His first books
as editor will be published this year: The Plays of Jon Lipsky,
Volumes 1 and 2 (Smith & Kraus). www.shakespearealoud.com
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Cristina Todesco has worked in theater and film for over 20
years. She has designed with Actor Shakespeare Project, ART
Institute, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Company One,
Huntington Theatre, Lyric Stage Company, New Repertory Theatre,
Nora Theater, Orfeo Group, Speakeasy Stage, Stoneham Theater,
Wheelock Family Theater, Boston College, Boston Conservatory,
Boston University, Harvard University, Suffolk University, Opera
Boston, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Summer Play Festival, the
Culture Project at the Barrow Street Theater, and the Olney Theatre
Center in Maryland. She is the recipient of four Elliot Norton
Awards for Outstanding Design for The Clean
House (New Rep), The Aliens (Company
One), Twelfth Night (ASP) and The
Flick(Company One). She was also an assistant art director on
the feature film Black Mass, and the ABC pilot "See
Kate Run." Prior to designing, she was a scenic artist working on
many feature films, including The
Crucible, The Spanish Prisoner, State
and Main, The Perfect Storm, The
Brotherhood, Underdog, 21,
The Pink Panther 2, The Box, Mall
Cop, and Zoo Keeper. She worked as a scenic
charge for six years at VDA, the Event Design Group, during which
time she charged projects and installations with clients that
include "Waterfall" for L.L Bean, Freeport, ME, "Bourbon Street"
for Jordan's Furniture, Natick, MA, "Arthur, the World Tour"
permanent and nationwide traveling shows for the Boston Children's
Museum, "The Woods" permanent installation for the Cincinnati
Children's Museum, and Houston Grand Opera's Carmen.
She is a member of USA Local 829.
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Kathleen Doyle is a visual story teller - a costume and puppet
designer working in theater, opera, musicals, dance, and film.
Kathleen graduated from N.Y.U. with an M.F.A. in Theater Design,
and holds an additional Master of Arts in Dramaturgy from Villanova
University. Doyle also designs costumes and creates puppets,
marionettes, masks, shadow puppets and stop-motion animation films.
She is a proud member of USA-Local 829. In 2001 she was awarded a
Fulbright grant to Japan. In 2005, she was awarded another
Fulbright grant, this time to China and Hong Kong. In 2012, she
traveled to Sao Paulo, Brazil where she attended a retrospective of
her art and design work at the Casarao de la Cultura. Based in New
York, her ebullient designs have been seen all over the city, from
The New Victory Theater to The 52nd Street Project, from La MaMa to
Here Art Center, from The Joyce Theater to Jazz at Lincoln Center,
from New York City Center to The Kennedy Center. Her work has also
been seen at Walt Disney World Florida, The Santa Fe Opera and The
San Francisco Opera. Kathleen has traveled throughout the world, to
dozens of different countries, and served as an International
Goodwill Ambassador in Peru. She recently returned from South Korea
where she designed puppets and masks for a new musical and from
Vietnam where she served as Artist-In-Residence with The Thang Long
National Water Puppetry Theater. Kathleen Doyle is a LabWorks Grant
Recipient at The New 42nd Street Studios, developing her own
original project that will tour eight Hawai'ian Islands next
year.
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ANTONIO WEISSINGER is a 13-years-old and is thrilled to be
reprising his most favorite opportunity in Mendelssohn's
Midsummer Night's Dream with the BSO at Tanglewood. He
started entertaining when he was eight-years-old as Tiny Tim in
Humbug (a parody of A Christmas Carol). His
favorite roles include Ocean State Theater's Billy Elliot
(Michael), Hopkinton Middle School's Hamlet (Hamlet),
Wheelock Family Theater's Charlotte's Web (Avery/Youth
ensemble), Hanover Theatre's A Christmas Carol (Young
Scrooge), Dean College's Bye Bye Birdie (Randolph), North
Shore Music Theatre's A Christmas Carol (Peter Cratchit),
Wheelock's Trumpet of the Swan (Cygnet), NSMT's Les
Misérables (Gavroche u/s), Enter Stage Left's
Cinderella (Prince), The Jones Unit student film (Ethan),
and The Nutcracker (Party Boy). Tony done commercials for
Legos and VISA. He also enjoys singing and has been a finalist in
NATS (National Association of Teachers of Singing) in both Boston
and Rhode Island (1st in Classical, 2nd in Musical Theatre),
selected for Districts, he has been a featured singer in the Light
Up the Night 300th anniversary of Hopkinton, featured soloist at
Boston Association of Cabaret Artist's (BACA) 20th anniversary and
BACA Youth Development Performance Showcase and has offered his
talents to perform at local assistant living facilities and nursing
homes. He is so thankful to Bill Barclay, Anthony Fogg, the BSO,
and the entire talented cast and crew associated with this magical
production. He is also thankful for all his opportunity, and to his
family, educators, and friends for their support and
encouragement.
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