The Lenfest Center for the Arts
Faculty Voice Recital: Gregory Parker
Sunday, February 14, 2016
3:00 p.m.
Wilson Hall/Concert Hall
No tickets are required.
Gregory Parker, baritone, will present a faculty voice recital at Washington and Lee University on Sunday, February 14th. The recital is part of W&L’s year-long Shakespeare 2016! celebration commemorating the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s death. It will feature settings of Shakespeare’s poetry by Eric Coates, Madeleine Dring, Gerald Finzi, Roger Quilter, Charles Villiers Stanford, Igor Stravinsky and Michael Tippett. Additionally, Parker will perform Ernest Chausson’s Chansons de Shakespeare, Op. 28, featuring Maurice Bouchor’s French translations of three Shakespeare poems. Operas based on Shakespearean plays will be represented by arias from Verdi’s Macbeth and Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette.
Parker holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in voice performance from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music. He is in his third year as a Professor of Music and Head of the Department of Music at W&L.
He will be assisted by Dr. Timothy Gaylard, Professor of Music, at the piano.
No Tickets Are Required.
No tickets are required.