4/13/2012

MUSIC FOR A GREAT SPACE PRESENTS:

ANTHONY DEAN GRIFFEY, TENOR, & WARREN JONES, PIANO
-- Henry Ingram Memorial Concert --

Friday, April 13, 2012
7:30 PM
Dana Auditorium, Guilford College

 

Four-time Grammy Award Winning American tenor Anthony Dean Griffey has captured critical and popular acclaim on opera, concert, and recital stages around the world. The combination of his voice, gift of dramatic interpretation and superb musicianship has earned him the highest praise from critics and audiences alike. Anthony Tommasini of The New York Times has written, "The amazing tenor Anthony Dean Griffey, with his beautiful lyric yet powerful and seemingly inexhaustible voice, meets every challenge," while Richard Dyer of The Boston Globe stated, "Griffey has voice, technique, diction, and poetry in his soul."

He has performed leading roles at the great international opera houses including The Sydney Opera House, The Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Glyndebourne, the Opera National de Paris, and the Teatro Comunale di Firenze to name a few. He is a regular guest of the world's orchestras, including New York, Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Montreal and Toronto and abroad in London, Paris, Munich, Tokyo, Glasgow, Amsterdam and Melbourne. Mr. Griffey has collaborated with many of today's pre-eminent conductors, including James Levine, Seiji Ozawa, André Previn, Michael Tilson Thomas, Sir Andrew Davis, Esa Pekka Salonen, Alan Gilbert, Kurt Masur, Donald Runnicles, Sir Colin Davis, Christoph Eschenbach, Valery Gergiev, James Conlon, and Charles Dutoit. He has also appeared at festivals including Tanglewood, Ravinia, Mostly Mozart, Saito Kinen and the Proms in London.

A native of High Point, Anthony Dean Griffey holds degrees from Wingate University, the Eastman School of Music, the Juilliard School and was a member of the Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artists Program. He is Professor of the Practice at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Warren Jones performs with many of today's best-known artists, including Stephanie Blythe, Denyce Graves, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Anthony Dean Griffey, Ruth Ann Swenson, Bo Skovhus, Samuel Ramey, James Morris, John Relyea, Joseph Alessi, and Richard "Yongjae" O'Neill, and is Principal Pianist for the exciting California-based chamber music group Camerata Pacifica.

Jones has been given the very prestigious "Achievement Award" by the Music Teachers National Association at their national convention in 2011, the highest award that the Association bestows. He was named as "Collaborative Pianist of the Year" for 2010 by the publication Musical America, and the same year was named "Vocal Coach of the Year" by the publication Classical Singer. Additionly, he received an Honorary Doctorate in Music from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 2010. In the past he has partnered such great performers as Marilyn Horne, Håkan Hagegård, Kathleen Battle, Barbara Bonney, Carol Vaness, Judith Blegen, Tatiana Troyanos and Martti Talvela. His collaborations have earned consistently high praise from many publications: The Boston Globe termed him "flawless" and "utterly ravishing;" The New York Times, "exquisite;" and The San Francisco Chronicle said simply, "He is the single finest accompanist now working."

Jones is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, and has served on the Board of Overseers and the Board of Visitors at that school. For a complete biography, a listing of his upcoming engagements, and his discography of more than 25 recordings, please visit his website, warrenjones.com.

 

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