“The voice booms, roars, rumbles through his
6'5" frame and bellows forth when he sings, even when he speaks, a
Basso Profundo” The Washington Post). Kevin Thompson a native of Washington, DC and is an Alumnus of The Juilliard School.
Mr. Thompson is at home in
both opera and concert.
Most recently he was named one of the top prize winners of the
Leiderkranz Competition 2009. This season he will make his
operatic debuts with New York City Opera as Martel in
Trouble
Island as
they
celebrate the 60th anniversary of the first world premiere,
Augusta Opera as Judge Turpin in Sweeney Todd, and New Jersey
Summer Opera as Osmin in Die
Entführung.
He has performed operatic roles such as
Sarastro from Mozart's Die Zauberflöte,
Grandpa Moss from Copland's
Tender
Land,
and Jupiter from Eccles
Semele. He has
sung also Colline from Puccini's La
Boheme, II Commendatore from Mozart's
Don Giovanni,
Sparafucile from Verdi's
Rigoletto, the
Jailer in Puccini's
Tosca, Frank
Maurrant from Weill's Street Scene,
and Bailli from Massenet's
Werther. He has
been the bass soloist for the Verdi
Requiem, the
Mozart
Requiem, and Handel's
Messiah. He has
also been a featured soloist in Hadyn's
The Creation, Lord Nelson Mass,
and Missa Brevis;
he has sung Dubois's
Seven
Last Words
of Christ and Stravinsky's
Les
Noces, sung in
Russian.
Mr. Thompson has given performances in
Austria,
France,
Italy,
Germany,
Switzerland,
and Spain.
American performances include Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall,
Alice Tully Hall, The Library of Congress, Barns of Wolftrap, The
Pentagon and an appearance with the United States Naval Academy
Band.
He
has worked and sung under the baton of
such conductors
as Alexander Kalajdzic, Edoardo
Muller, Julius Rudel, Grant Gerhwin, Andreas Delfs, Mark Flint and
David Zimmerman.
He has been recipient a full scholarships from
The Juilliard's Peggy Lee Scholarship, and one from the American
Institute of Musical Studies (Graz, Austria) and also three year
full fellowship at the Aspen Music Festival, He has received
awards from the Paul Robeson Competition, Rosa Ponselle
Competition, National Symphony Competition, and International
Competitions Don Giovanni and the Meistersinger.
As a permit part of the
Smithsonian Institute's Hirschorn Gallery in
Washington,
D.C..
Mr. Thompson is featured singing “Old Man River” in an audio walk
artwork exhibit entitled Words Drawn
in Water by artist Janet Cardiff.
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