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Jon Garrison, tenor...

b i o g r a p h y...........back to roster....up March 2008 The gifted American tenor, Jon Garrison, is a favorite of many of the world’s distinguished conductors. At the Metropolitan Opera he was Cassio in Otello, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Romeo in Romeo et Juliette, von Eisenstein in Strauss’ Die Fledermaus, and Ottavio in Don Giovanni. Mr. Garrison’s European engagements have included the title role in Idomeneo with the Garsington Opera in Surrey; Adolar in Weber’s Euryanthe with the Orchestra of the Enlightenment in London; and Birtwistle’s Mask of Orpheus and Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex with the BBC Symphony—which he also performed with von Dohnanyi and the Cleveland Orchestra. He was in Lobgesang with the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon, and Scottish Opera engaged him for two seasons as Pedro in Ines de Castro for performances in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Porto, Portugal. He performed and recorded Markevitch’s Le Paradis Perdu with the Arnhem Philharmonic. At the Prague Autumn International Music Festival he was in Rossini’s Stabat Mater and Puccini’s Messa di Gloria. Recent appearances include the roles of Jean le Jongleur in Massenet’s Le Jongleur de Notre Dame with Central City Opera, Sam in Susannah with Hawaii Opera and Cedar Rapids Opera, Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus with Fresno Grand Opera, Bajazet in Handel’s Tamerlano at Spoleto Festival USA, as well as Szymanowski’s Symphony #3 with the Montreal Symphony in Carnegie Hall, and Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy and Symphony No. 9 with New Hampshire Music Festival. In the 2006/07 season, his appearances included Berlioz Te Deum with the New Mexico Symphony, Verdi Requiem with Helena Symphony, Das Lied von der Erde and Messiah with Westfield Symphony. In January 08 he sang The Bells with the Virginia Symphony. Jon Garrison’s extensive, varied repertoire also includes the roles of Lensky, performed for St. Louis Symphony’s concert version of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin; Laca in Janacek’s Jenufa for Alabama Symphony; and Belmonte in Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail for Phoenix Symphony. At Carnegie Hall he was in Handel’s Israel in Egypt and Ezra Landerman's Brotherly Love with the Philadelphia Singers, and in Missa Solemnis with St. Cecilia Chorus. He performed Kodaly’s Psalmus Hungaricus for Akron Symphony and presented "A Viennese Night" with the Montreal Symphony with Macal conducting and Beethoven’s Fidelio with the Cincinnati Symphony and Lopez-Cobos. Mr. Garrison was praised by critics for his "stunning" performance in the title role in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress with Berkshire Opera. Mr. Garrison sang in the world premieres of Stewart Copeland’s Holy Blood, Crescent Moon (Cleveland Opera), Jay Reise’s Rasputin (New York City Opera), and Hugo Weisgall’s The Gardens of Adonis (Opera Omaha). He participated in a tribute to Gian Carlo Menotti with the Little Orchestra Society at Lincoln Center and appeared in Claude Baker’s Into the Sun with Leonard Slatkin and the National Symphony. He performed Henze’s Elegy for Young Lovers with the London Sinfonietta and his Kammermusik with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Sheng’s Songs of Majnun for New York Chamber Symphony, and Britten’s War Requiem with several orchestras. On the occasion of the farewell performances of Zubin Mehta’s tenure with the New York Philharmonic, Mr. Garrison sang and recorded Schönberg’s Gurre-Lieder. For EMI he recorded Szymanowski’s Symphony No. 3 under the baton of Simon Rattle and the Evangelist in St. Matthew Passion with Raymond Leppard conducting. Other recordings include the Rake’s Progress and Oedipus Rex on the MusicMasters label, and Handel’s Roman Vespers for RCA. b i o....r e v i e w s....o r c h e s t r a - r e p e r t o i r e....o p e r a - r e p e r t o i r e back to roster...up . . . .

. r e v i e w s..........back to roster....up "The exception was tenor JON GARRISON, making his third appearance at the festival. Springfield audiences will recall his fine work in the Springfield Symphony Orchestra's La Boheme two seasons ago. GARRISON offered an aggressive 'Deposuit potentes', but his triumph came in the concert's second half as the title character in Britten's canata Saint Nicolas." "Tenor JON GARRISON'S diction illuminated his solo, which he fairly spit out in anger against the 'stuttering rifles rapid rattle'." "Among the men, JON GARRISON, as Marie's seducer, Baron Deportes (described in the libretto as a very high tenor), alone has to match the women's vocal pyrotechnics." "Tenor JON GARRISON divined both the sense and the nonsense in the role of Klaus..." "GARRISON didn't sound like Peter Pears, for whom the tenor part was wrtiten, but he had every bit of Pears' liquescence and eloquent declamation, and then some. His suddenly quiet croon at the words 'But they who love the greater love' (in the Agnus Dei) was perhaps the most heart-rending moment among many." b i o....r e v i e w s....o r c h e s t r a - r e p e r t o i r e....o p e r a - r e p e r t o i r e back to roster...up . . . .

. o r c h e s t r a - r e p e r t o i r e..........back to roster....up J.S. BACH St. Matthew Passion (Evangelist, Arias) J.S. BACH St. John Passion (Evangelist, Arias) J.S. BACH B Minor Mass J.S. BACH Magnificat J.S. BACH Christmas Oratorios BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9 BEETHOVEN Missa Solemnis BERLIOZ La Damnation du Faust BERLIOZ L'Enfance du Christ BERLIOZ Requiem BERLIOZ Romeo et Juliette BERLIOZ Te Deum BRITTEN Serenade for Tenor, Horn and String Orchestra BRITTEN War Requiem CARTER In Sleep, In Thunder ELGAR Dream of Gerontius HANDEL Messiah HANDEL Judas Maccabeus HANDEL Roman Vespers HAYDN Creation HAYDN Lord Nelson Mass HAYDN Paukenmesse HAYDN Theresien Messe LLOYD-WEBBER Requiem McCARTNEY Liverpool Oratorio MENDELSSOHN Die Erste Walpurgisnacht MENDELSSOHN St. Paul MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 2 "Lobgesang" MOZART Requiem ORFF Carmina Burana PUCCINI Missa di Gloria RACHMANINOV The Bells ROSSINI Stabat Mater SCHOENBERG Gurrelieder (Klaus Narr) Stravinsky Persephone Stravinsky Pulcinella Tippett Child of Our Time Tippett Mask of Time Verdi Requiem WEILL Kleine Mahagonny Songspiel b i o....r e v i e w s....o r c h e s t r a - r e p e r t o i r e....o p e r a - r e p e r t o i r e back to roster...up . . . .

. o p e r a - r e p e r t o i r e..........back to roster....up Beethoven – Fidelio – Jacquino Bellini – La Sonnambula – Elvino Berg – Lulu – Painter Berg – Wozzeck – Andres Berlioz – Beatrice et Benedict – Benedict Berlioz – Damnation of Faust – Faust Bernstein – West Side Story – Tony Bizet – Les Pecheures des Perles – Nadir Bizet – Carmen – Don Jose Copeland – Holy Blood, Crescent Moon – Edmund Donizetti – Don Pasquale – Ernesto Donizetti – Elisir D'Amore – Nemorino Donizetti – Lucia di Lammermoor – Edgardo Gluck – Alceste – Admete Gounod – Faust – Faust Gounod – Romeo et Juliette – Romeo Handel – Agrippina – Nero Janacek – From the House of the Dead – Skuratov Lehar – Merry Widow – Camille, Danilo MacMillan – Ines de Castro – Pedro Massenet – Manon – Des Grieux Massenet – Werther – Werther Mozart – Abduction from the Seraglio – Belmonte Mozart – The Magic Flute – Tamino Mozart – Cosi Fan Tutti – Ferrando Musgrave – Mary, Queen of Scots – Darnley Offenbach – The Tales of Hoffman – Hoffmann Puccini – La Boheme – Rodolfo Puccini – Gianni Schicchi – Rinuccio Puccini – Madama Butterfly – Pinkerton Puccini – La Rondine – Ruggero Rameau – Les Indes – Galantes Reise – Rasputin – Czar Nicholas Romberg – The Student Prince – Karl Franz Romberg – The New Moon – Pierre Strauss, J. – Die Fledermaus – Alfred, Eisenstein Stravinsky – Mavra – The Cook Stravinsky – The Rake's Progress – Tom Rakewell Verdi – La Traviata – Alfredo Verdi – Rigoletto – Duke of Mantua Weisgall – The Garden of Adonis – Adonis b i o....r e v i e w s....o r c h e s t r a - r e p e r t o i r e....o p e r a - r e p e r t o i r e back to roster...up . . . .