Joyce DiDonato
Songplay
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- Mezzo-soprano
- Piano
- Double bass
- Percussion
- Trumpet
- Bandoneón
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Joyce DiDonato
Mezzo-Soprano
Multi-Grammy Award winner and 2018 Olivier Award winner for Outstanding Achievement in Opera, Kansas-born Joyce DiDonato entrances audiences across the globe, and has been proclaimed “perhaps the most potent female singer of her generation” by The New Yorker. With a voice “nothing less than 24-carat gold” according to The
Times, Joyce has towered to the top of the industry as a performer, a producer, and a fierce advocate for the arts. With a repertoire spanning over four centuries, a varied and highly acclaimed discography, and industry-leading projects, her artistry has defined what it is to be a singer in the 21st century.Joyce begins her ambitious 2023-24 season by opening The Metropolitan Opera’s season performing her signature role of Sister Helen in a new production of Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking, where she will return later in the season to revive her critically acclaimed “Virginia Woolf” in Kevin Puts’ The Hours. This season also sees Joyce touring Dido & Aeneas with Il Pomo d’Oro, and further tours of EDEN and the Grammy Award-winning SONGPLAY in Asia, South America, and Europe. In concert Joyce appears with her hometown Kansas City Symphony Orchestra for a series of subscription concerts, as well as performances in Istanbul, Strasbourg, and Paris. Joyce also performs in recital at Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Wiener Musikverein and Carnegie Hall.
Recent highlights include giving the world premiere of Tod Machover's Overstory Overture in the role of Patricia Westertord at Alice Tully Hall in New York and Seoul Arts Center in South Korea and an in-depth residency at Musikkollegium Winterthur. Joyce’s groundbreaking EDEN Tour has had further success with recent tours in Europe and North America. In June 2022, Joyce joined the Metropolitan Orchestra for a tour that included the orchestra’s first visit to the UK in over 20 years, with performances at The Barbican, Philharmonie de Paris and Festpielhaus Baden-Baden. Her performance was “the embodiment of musical perfection”, according to the Wochenglatt Reporter.
In opera, Joyce’s recent roles include Agrippina at the Metropolitan Opera and in a new production at the Royal Opera House, Didon in Les Troyens at the Wiener Staatsoper; Sesto in Cendrillon and Adalgisa in Norma at the Metropolitan Opera; Agrippina in concert with Il Pomo d’Oro under Maxim Emelyanchev; Sister Helen in Dead Man Walking at the Teatro Real Madrid and London’s Barbican Centre; Semiramide at the Bavarian State Opera and Royal Opera House, and Charlotte in Werther at the Royal Opera House.
Much in demand on the concert and recital circuit, Joyce has held residencies at Carnegie Hall and at London’s Barbican Centre, toured extensively in the United States, South America, Europe and Asia and appeared as guest soloist at the BBC’s Last Night of the Proms. Other concert highlights include the Berlin Philharmonic under Sir Simon Rattle, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique under Sir John Eliot Gardiner, the Philadelphia Orchestra under Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and the Accademia Santa Cecilia Orchestra and the National Youth Orchestra USA under Sir Antonio Pappano.
An exclusive recording artist with Warner Classics/Erato, Joyce’s expansive discography includes the highly celebrated Les Troyens (winning Gramophone’s coveted Recording of the Year) and Handel’s Agrippina (Gramophone’s Opera Recording of the Year). Joyce’s other albums include her singular EDEN that has toured to nearly 40 cities globally, the acclaimed Winterreise with Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Grammy Award winning Songplay, In War & Peace, the 2017 Best Recital Gramophone Award, Stella di Napoli, Grammy-Award-winning Diva Divo and Drama Queens. Other honours include the Gramophone Artist and Recital of the Year awards, as well as an inaugural inductee into the Gramophone Hall of Fame.
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Craig Terry
Piano
Grammy Award winning pianist and arranger Craig Terry enjoys an international career regularly performing with the world’s leading singers and instrumentalists. Currently Craig serves as Music Director of The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago after having served for eleven seasons at Lyric as Assistant Conductor. Previously, he served as Assistant Conductor at the Metropolitan Opera after joining its Lindemann Young Artist Development Program.
Craig has performed with such esteemed vocalists as Jamie Barton, Stephanie Blythe, Christine Brewer, Janai Brugger, Lawrence Brownlee, Nicole Cabell, Sasha Cooke, Eric Cutler, Danielle de Niese, Joyce DiDonato, Giuseppe Filianoti, Renée Fleming, Christine Goerke, Susan Graham,Denyce Graves, Bryan Hymel, Brian Jagde, Joseph Kaiser, Quinn Kelsey, Kate Lindsey, Amanda Majeski, Ana María Martínez, Eric Owens, Ailyn Perez, Nicholas Phan, Susanna Phillips, Luca Pisaroni, Patricia Racette, Hugh Russell, Bo Skovhus, Garrett Sorenson, Heidi Stober, Christian Van Horn, Amber Wagner, Laura Wilde, and Catherine Wyn-Rogers. He has collaborated as a chamber musician with members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra, the Gewandhaus Orchester, and the Pro Arte String Quartet.
Craig’s upcoming and recent highlights include more than forty concerts in North America, Europe, and Asia with artists including Katherine Beck, Ben Bliss, Christine Brewer, J’Nai Bridges, Lawrence Brownlee, Andriana Chuchman, Joyce DiDonato, Christine Goerke, Will Liverman, Ana María Martínez, Whitney Morrison, Richard Ollarsaba, Susanna Phillips, David Portillo, Patricia Racette, Hugh Russell, and Laura Wilde.
He is Artistic Director of “Beyond the Aria,” a highly acclaimed recital series now in its ninth sold-out season, presented by the Harris Theater in collaboration with the Ryan Opera Center and Lyric Opera of Chicago.
Craig’s discography includes five recently released recordings: “Diva on Detour” with Patricia Racette, “As Long As There Are Songs” with Stephanie Blythe, “Chanson d’Avril” with Nicole Cabell, and “French Horn Recital from 24 Preludes, Op. 11 - Alexander Scriabin” with Lyric Opera principal horn Jonathan Boen. His latest recording project with Joyce DiDonato, “Songplay,” released by Warner Classics, received the 2020 Grammy award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album.
He has appeared on numerous television, radio, and streaming programs, including multiple appearances on both “Live from Lincoln Center” and “Great Performances” for PBS, as well as on many programs broadcast on NBC, ABC, and CBS. In May 2021, he was the pianist for the Metropolitan Opera’s “Wagnerian Stars Live in Concert,” transmitted from the Hessisches Staatstheater in Wiesbaden, Germany. Craig hails from Tullahoma, Tennessee, received a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education from Tennessee Technological University, continued his studies at Florida State University, and received a Masters of Music in Collaborative Piano Performance from the Manhattan School of Music, where he was a student of renowned pianist Warren Jones.
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Gregg August
Double Bass
Bassist and composer Gregg August spans the classical, avant-garde, jazz and Latin jazz worlds making him one of the most versatile musicians on the scene today. He is an Associate member of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra as well as the former Principal Bass of La Orquestra Ciutat de Barcelona and the Brooklyn Philharmonic. As a jazz bassist Gregg is a member of the JD Allen Trio and Arturo O’Farrill’s Afro- Latin Jazz Orchestra.
In 2020 he released his album Dialogues on Race and received a GRAMMY nomination in the Best Large Jazz Ensemble category. An extended suite for 22 musicians and narrator, the work integrates poems to create musical conversations intended to foster awareness and understanding on the issues surrounding race relations in the United States.
Gregg was awarded two Grand Prizes by the International Society of Bassists for the 2020 David Walter Composers Competition. He has also composed many full length concert works, including “Variations on a Theme by Pérotin” which was commissioned and premiered by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in 2021.
He has performed and/or recorded with Branford Marsalis, Ornette Coleman, Chick Corea, Ray Barretto, the New York Philharmonic, Steve Reich, and The Bang on a Can All Stars.
Gregg is on faculty at New York University, the Manhattan School of Music, Williams College and the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA.
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Jimmy Madison
Percussion
If you were to list all the groups Jimmy Madison has worked with since his arrival in New York, it would read like a Who’s Who of modern music.
A musician at four years, and a professional at age twelve, he has been playing jazz all his life. Leaving Cincinnati to join Miami trumpeter Don Goldie at age 19, he was quickly hired by bandleader Lionel Hampton after a gig at New York’s world-famous Metropole. Since then, he has performed and recorded with such diverse musical stylists as Marion McPartland, Bobby Hackett, James Brown, Gerry Mulligan, Nina Simone, Al Cohn, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Joe Farrell, George Benson, Richie Havens, Stan Getz, Hubert Laws ,Lee Konitz, Anita O’Day, Art Farmer, John Lewis, Ray Baretto, Shirley MacLaine, Maceo Parker, Ron Carter, Jon Hendricks, The Joffrey Ballet, Chet Baker, David Berger, Quincy Jones, Toots Theilmans and The Duke Ellington Orchestra, to name only a few.
Honing the skills needed to accompany all the various types of music played or sung or danced by the artists listed above has given Jimmy a rich appreciation for all music. His work as a teacher/clinician has broadened that appreciation even more.
Although Jimmy has led groups on several occasions, including an 18-piece big band with composer Angel Rangelov, he is mostly known as a sideman, having long been featured at jazz venues internationally. Once, in a review of the Red Rodney Quintet’s appearance at NYC’s Blue Note, Gary Giddens of the Village Voice called Jimmy “the best kept secret in jazz.”
It’s time that this secret got out!
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Charlie Porter
Trumpet
Grammy Award-winning multi-genre trumpeter and composer Charlie Porter first cut his teeth on the New York jazz scene in the late ’90s, while simultaneously studying classical trumpet performance at The Juilliard School under the tutelage of famed trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis.
Though he has recorded many albums as a side-musician, Porter has released three albums to date, as a leader, that have garnered high praise.
In 2024 Charlie will be releasing four more albums of original music, including a solo classical project, featuring all new works for trumpet.
Porter has toured the world as a side-man and band-leader in jazz and also as a classical soloist and chamber musician, performing and recording with many notable musicians and groups over the last twenty years ranging from jazz greats including Joe Zawinul, Winard Harper, Mike Longo, Paquito D’Rivera, Ira Sullivan, Aaron Diehl, Mike Holober, Jimmy Greene, Jay Thomas, David Berger, Charli Persip and Chuck Israels to classical artists such as Simone Dinnerstein, Sarah Chang, and Joyce DiDonato as well as world-music greats Goran Bregovic, Marcel Khalife, and Kim Duksoo, among many others. He is also a founding member of the grammy-nominated electro-acoustic Absolute Ensemble, directed by Kristjan Jarvi. Charlie’s collaboration on opera star Joyce DoDonato’s crossover album “Songplay” earned him a Grammy Award for 2019.
Charlie holds degrees from The Juilliard School and Manhattan School of music in jazz and classical performance. He was also a Fulbright Scholar at the Paris Conservatory. Among many awards to his credit, Charlie was the first trumpeter to win 1st place in both the classical and jazz divisions of the National Trumpet Competition. As a composer, he has been commissioned by Chamber Music America and the Doris Duke Foundation.
Porter is currently an adjunct professor of trumpet at New York University.
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Lautaro Greco
Bandoneón
Bandoneonist, pianist and composer, Lautaro Greco is the brightest star of the modern Argentine music world. He is a multiple times Grammy award winner. He learned to play the instrument from his father, Pablo Greco, and has shared the stage with such legendary tango musicians as Rubén Juarez, Fernando Suárez Paz (Astor Piazzola’s violinist), Raúl Lavié and Guillermo Fernández (singer) and such Latin American artists as Marisa Monte.
Lautaro Greco studied at the Astor Piazzolla Music School in the city of Buenos Aires. Together with his brother Emiliano Greco, he leads the Grecos Tango Septet, and he is also a member of Leopoldo Federico’s Orchestra and the Pablo Agri Quar tet. Greco has been a soloist at the Juan de Dios Filbert Argentinean Music Orches tra since 2007.
Both as an ensemble member and as a soloist, Greco has taken part in many musical tours and events in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. In 2010 he performed the closing act at the Buenos Aires City Tango Festival with Leopoldo Federico’s Orchestra and the prestigious Panamanian singer Ruben Blades; in 2008 he worked with Sexteto Mayor, with whom he recorded an album that won the Carlos Gardel Award for Best Tango Orchestra Album; also in 2008 Greco took part in a solo tour of France with the Pablo Agri Quartet. In 2013, at the Buenos Aires City Tango Festival, Greco performed with the Arregladores de Troilo Or ches tra. He was a bandoneon soloist and per formed Tangos y Postangos (Suite No. 1), directed by Ernesto Jodos and Pedro Casis.
Recently, Greco has been busy recording and performing with the Quinteto Astor Piazzolla, as well collaborating with many international orchestras.
Tommaso Giordani
Caro mio ben (arr. Craig Terry)
Alessandro Parisotti / Salvatore Rosa
Se tu m’ami / Star vicino (arr. Craig Terry)
Enrique Delfino
Griseta (arr. Lautaro Greco)
Giuseppe Torelli
Tu lo sai (arr. Craig Terry)
Astor Piazzolla
Los Pájaros Perdidos (arr. Lautaro Greco)
Duke Ellington
(In My) Solitude (arr. Craig Terry)
Isham Jones
There Is No Greater Love (arr. Charlie Porter, Jimmy Madison)
Benedetto Marcello
Quella fiamma che m’accende (arr. Craig Terry)
Giovanni Paisiello
Nel cor più mio non sento (arr. Craig Terry)
George Shearing
Lullaby of Birdland (arr. Craig Terry)
Zez Confrey
Dizzy Fingers (arr. Craig Terry)
Gene Scheer
Lean Away (arr. Andrew Thomas, Craig Terry)
Antonio Vivaldi
Col piace
An exceptional performer, Joyce DiDonato has stood out through the originality of her projects, shedding new light on repertoires thought out and put into communication with perspectives as surprising as they are refreshing. One of the latest examples is Songplay, a project in which, accompanied by top musicians, she creates bridges between opera, jazz and tango. According to the singer, it was inspired by both baroque composer Francesco Cavalli and jazz singer Chet Baker. In 2020, the project’s recording was awarded a Grammy for Best Classical Music Vocal Album.
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Preston Smith Sound engineer
Carolina Furtado Costumes assistant
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