Joseph Parrish, an award-winning bass-baritone, will perform at MBU on Monday, February 24 as part of the annual Broman Concert Series.
The Music Department at Mary Baldwin University is excited to present the award-winning bass-baritone Joseph Parrish on the Broman Concert Series. The concert is Monday, February 24 at 7:30 pm in Francis Auditorium on the Mary Baldwin Campus.
Praised for his “transfixing bass-baritone voice,” “impeccable technique,” and “charismatic stage presence,” Joseph Parrish is quickly making a name for himself as a recitalist and on the operatic stage. He was a First Prize Winner in the 2022 YCA Susan Wadsworth International Auditions, was selected for the 2024 Salzburg Festival Young Singers Program, and recently appeared with the Cincinnati Opera, as Masetto in Don Giovanni. Last season, Parrish made his Kennedy Center debut in a performance co-presented by Washington Performing Arts with the Washington Performing Arts Children of the Gospel Choir, a program he will repeat this season at Merkin Hall in New York. He has also performed at Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall, as well as at Jazz at Lincoln Center, in a performance of Blind Injustice. A Baltimore native, Parrish holds degrees from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and the Juilliard School. He is committed to giving back to the communities that have nurtured him and has served as a Music Advancement Program chorus teaching fellow, Gluck Community Service Fellow, Morse Teaching Artist, and a member of the inaugural cohort of Shared Voices, the flagship program of the Denyce Graves Foundation.
Parrish will be joined by Danish-Italian pianist Francesco Barfoed, who has been hailed as “a young artist on the rise.” Barfoed frequently collaborates with singers and has twice won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions. He also won First Prize in the Copenhagen Lied-Duo Competition and Second Prize at the Naumberg Foundation International Vocal Competition. Barfoed has appeared in venues such as the Kennedy Center, Merkin Hall, and Carnegie Hall. He holds degrees from the Royal Danish Academy of Music, Rutgers University, and the Juilliard School.
On February 24, Parrish and Barfoed will treat the audience to a compelling program that includes German and American Art Songs, as well as arrangements of Spirituals. They will perform familiar favorites such as “You Can Tell the World,” arranged by Margaret Bonds, Hall Johnson’s “City Called Heaven,” and Franz Schubert’s “Ständchen.” Also on the program are selections from Gustav Mahler’s Rückert Lieder, as well as Art Songs by Harry Burleigh and Charles Brown.
Tickets for February 24 are still available—audience-goers are encouraged to purchase tickets online as soon as possible. Tickets are $25 for the General Public, $20 for Seniors, and $5 for non-Mary Baldwin students. (MBU students, faculty, and staff may attend this concert free of charge.) For more information about concerts at MBU, or to purchase tickets online, please click here. Questions may be emailed to Music@marybaldwin.edu.
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