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Fran Rogers, Tenor in Recital
Fran Rogers, Tenor in Recital
James Myers, Accompanist
Performing works of Wagner, Copland, Faure, Stradella, and Refice. This program will explore the human experience as found through various song composers and genres. From ecstasy, to despair, to the nobility of daily life, take a musical journey through a spectrum of experience.
Fran Rogers, Tenor
Hailed for his open, free, and effortless high notes, Fran Rogers is an up and coming voice in the Boston opera community. As a musician, Rogers combines genres and instrumental ability with technical skill, excelling in a variety of languages and styles. A review of his portrayal of Prince Ramiro in a recent performance of La Cenerentola praised his "athleticism" and "raw strength and natural timbre". In addition to solo performances across the country and the globe, Fran regularly sings with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops as a member of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and is in his third season with the Boston Opera Collaborative.
Fran is a recent semifinalist at the Concorso Internazionale di Musica Sacra in Rome, Italy. He also frequently performs as a national anthem soloist for Bostons major sports franchises. Recently, Fran sang at the New England Patriots home opener and for the Boston Celtics, Red Sox, and New England Revolution.
James Myers, Pianist
Thousands have enthusiastically received keyboardist James J. Myers at prestigious venues throughout Europe and North America. His stylistic breadth and sensitivity, technical prowess, and musical artistry have reached audiences from Berlin to New York, Los Angeles to London, as well as Honolulu, Munich, Geneva, and Budapest. He has shared the stage with leading artistic luminaries of our age, including Christine Brewer, Judith Christin, Jennifer Koh, Robert McDuffie, Chris Thile, and Renée Fleming. His music has artfully supported master classes of singers Jane Eaglen, Thomas Hampson, Sylvia McNair, Wagnerian Linda Watson, composers Tom Cipullo, Philip Glass, and Jake Heggie, and pianists Ann Schein, Abby Simon, and Nelita True.
In professional houses Mr. Myers has prepared a tremendous range of repertoire, including Lincoronazione di Poppea, Don Giovanni, Rigoletto, Katya Kabanova, A Midsummer Nights Dream, and Der Fliegende Holländer. In 2008 he was featured on the Kurzweil double synthesizer with Opera Colorado"s Naxos recording of Nixon in China, under Marin Alsop. In operatic, symphonic, and choral engagements he has had the distinct pleasure of working with renowned conductors David Angus, Edward Gardner, Matthew Halls, Bernard Labadie, Peter Oundjian, and the late Marvin Hamlisch.
Mr. Myers leads a dynamic vocal coaching studio in Boston. His students have won top prizes at Classical Singer National Competition, the New York Oratorio Society, positions at Merola, Glimmerglass, Santa Fe, Graz, and Idyllwild Festivals, and scholarships to Juilliard, Indiana, and the Eastman School. He is Coach/Pianist and Lecturer with Boston Lyric Opera and the Boston Conservatory, and will join the opera faculty at the Berklee/Boston Conservatory Summer Opera Festival in Valencia, Spain, summer 2017. He has served as adjudicator, presenter, composer, and pianist at National Association of Teachers of Singing, Classical Singer, and numerous vocal and Early Music festivals in addition to collaborative master classes at academic centers throughout the United States. Mr. Myers holds degrees with distinction from the Hochschule fuer Musik, Hannover (Germany), the University of Colorado at Boulder, and the Eastman School.
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LocationGordon Chapel at Old South Church (View)
645 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116
United States
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