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Tenor David Parks has made singing part of a dual-career path of college level teaching and performing. On the operatic stage Parks has sung roles with Syracuse Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, Chautauqua Opera, Virginia Opera, Piedmont Opera, Arizona Opera, Ithaca Opera, Oswego Opera Theater, and Opera Delaware. Parks’ appearances in more that 50 productions reflect a familiarity with a wide range of repertoire from Baroque opera to twentieth-century literature.
In the late spring and summer of 1991, Parks made his performing debut in South Africa. During the three-month residency in South Africa, he performed leading tenor roles in Puccini’s La Bohème and Mozart’s Cosi fan Tutte. In addition to fifteen operatic performances in Cape Town and Bloemfontein, Parks was heard at the South African National Arts Festival in both opera and oratorio, appearing as the tenor soloist in Mozart’s Requiem, the first American tenor to do so in several years.
As an oratorio singer, Parks, has sung all of the major oratorio roles in the United States, with the Spoleto Festival in Italy, and at the National Art Festival in South Africa. In early November 2001 he sang the tenor solos in the Mozart Requiem with the Sarajevo Philharmonic in Bosnia-Herzegovinia. In both 1990 and 1992 he was awarded fellowships with the Bach Aria Group, and in 1989 made his Carnegie hall debut as tenor soloist in Mendelssohn’s Elijah. In 1995 he returned to Carnegie hall as tenor soloist in a program of Schubert and Mozart masses.
Parks has performed at the Mauerbach Music Festival in Vienna, Austria, the Anchorage Music Festival, and for several years at the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival. Dr. Parks is a full professor of voice at Ithaca College School of Music.
For more information about David Parks, click: www.davidparkstenor.com
A native of New Zealand, Read Gainsford began full-time music study with top piano teachers, Janetta MacStay and Bryan Sayer, before receiving a grant from the Woolf Fisher Trust and the top prize in the Television New Zealand Young Musician of the Year. Gainsford then relocated to London, where he studied privately with Brigitte Wild, a protégée of Claudio Arrau, before winning a place in the Advanced Solo Studies course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he studied with Joan Havill, graduating with the prestigious Concert Recital Diploma (premier prix).
Read Gainsford has performed widely in the USA, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa as solo recitalist, concerto soloist and chamber musician. He has made successful solo debuts at the Wigmore Hall and Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, and has performed in many other venues, including the John F. Kennedy Center, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Barbican Centre, Fairfield Halls, Birmingham Town Hall and St-Martin-in-the-Fields. He has recorded for the Amoris label, BBC Radio Three, Radio New Zealand’s Concert Programme, and has broadcast on national television in New Zealand, the UK and Yugoslavia.
Gainsford is an associate professor of Piano at Florida State University.
For more information about Read Gainsford, click: http://www.music.fsu.edu/gainsford.htm
This recording was produced by Steven Stucky, who is widely recognized as one of the leading composers today. Steven Stucky was awarded the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in music for his Second Concerto for Orchestra. He has written commissioned works for many of the major American orchestras and ensembles.
Mr. Stucky has taught at Cornell University since 1980, where he serves as Given Foundation Professor of Composition. He has also been associated with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for more than 15 years, and is currently Consulting Composer for New Music.
For more information about Steven Stucky click: http://www.stevenstucky.com
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This CD was recorded in the Hockett Family Recital Hall at Ithaca College School of Music. |
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