Kevin Maynor

Kevin MaynorMr. Maynor is well-known in both the concert halls and opera houses, he has sung roles with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, New York City Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Opera Orchestra of New York, Cincinnati Opera, Teatro Municipal of Santiago, Edmonton Opera, L'Opera de Montreal, Florida Grand Opera, Opera National du Rhin of France, Dallas Opera, Opera Company of Boston, The Spoleto Festival, Opera Pacific, The Saratov Opera in Russia and Scottish Opera, among others. He has also sung with the symphony orchestras of Atlanta, Forth Worth, Quebec, New Orleans, Milwaukee and the Buffalo and Long Island Philharmonic, The New World Symphony, The American Symphony, among others. Mr. Maynor has sung everywhere from Carnegie Hall to The Beijing Concert Hall in China. As a recitalist, Kevin Maynor has received praise throughout North America, South America, Europe, Australasia and Africa as well as Asia including India and China. Kevin MaynorReviewing Kevin Maynor's CD Paul Robeson Remembered, Fanfare magazine exclaimed. "This is a super voice, a voice to compare not only to Robeson but also to Alexander Kipnis, to Boris Christoff, even to Ezio Pinza-in other words to the very greatest bass voices of the century." Mr. Maynor has scored success in over 40 operatic roles in five different languages. The first apprentice artist from the West to study at the Bolshoi in Moscow, Mr. Maynor is a Fulbright Award winner and a recipient of the George London Award as well as a Richard Tucker Career Grant winner. Critics have praised his charismatic stage presence as well as his superb voice and powerful, resonant tone" and the jewel in his dark bass voice." During 2004-2005 Kevin Maynor performs Tom with Florida Grand Opera in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera, and sings three multi media thematic concerts at the prestigious AUCKLAND FESTIVAL. In 2005-2006 he performs in Recital at Winston Salem University, a concert at The Schomburg in New York City, followed by the Beethoven Ninth in West Virginia. Mr. Maynor's 2003 - 2004 season included performances at the Kravis Center of West Palm Beach. Florida, where he performed his thematic MULTIMEDIA recital, The Repertoire of Paul Robeson and repeated the Verdi Requiem in Eugene Oregon with the Eugene Concert Choir and gave a recital at the University of Oregon with master classes. The American Bass sang at the Vivaldi Festival at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in New York. . Returning to Avery Fisher Hall with The Little Orchestra Society singing the role of Balthazaar in Menotti's Amahl and The Night Visitors and performing a Dvorak Centennial Concert for the Dvorak Society of New York, Kevin Maynor performed the World Premiere of new songs by Jack Beeson and the Pulitzer prize winner George Walker, at Smith College in North Hampton, Massachusetts. .Mr. Maynor's engagements for the 2002-2003 season included performances of Samuel in Un Ballo in Maschera with the Pittsburgh Opera, Verdi's Requiem with the Canton Symphony Orchestra , the Prologue to Mephistopheles with the Virginia Symphony and Julius Rudel, King Balthazaar in Amahl and the Night Visitors with the Little Orchestra Society of New York at Avery Fisher Hall, Dumar's American Requiem with the Phoenix Symphony, and recitals in Sacramento, New York , New Jersey and The U.S. State Department for the Kala Ghoda Festival in India. Mr. Maynor's engagements for the 2001-2002 season included performances as Joe in Showboat with Opera National du Rhin in Strasbourg, France, and as Sparafucile in Rigoletto with the Sacramento Opera, recitals in Chicago at Northwestern University, in Boston at The Afro-American History Museum, and Long Island; and a special concert of spirituals with The New World Symphony. During July of 2001, he performed at the Grant Park Music Festival. Mr. Maynor's 2000-2001 season included performances as Timur in Turandot with Minnesota Opera; as Sparafucile in Rigoletto with Knoxville Opera: as Hunding in Die Walkeure with Austin Lyric Opera; and as Zaccaria in Nabucco with Pacific Opera Victoria. During last season, Mr. Maynor also appeared in recital throughout the United States, and he hosted 17 different shows for the New York City PBS stations Metro Arts/ Thirteen/WNET. In May of 2000, he sang at The Supreme Court of the United States of America. Most Recently, Mr. Maynor gave performances as Don Basilo in IL Barbiere di Siviglia with the New York City Opera, both Fafner in Das Rheingoldand Colline in La Boheme with Dallas Opera, Daland in Der Fliegende Hollander with Sacramento Opera, Sparafucile in Rigoletto with Mississippi Opera, Shostakovich's Song of the Forest with the Kalamazoo Symphony, a centenary tribute to Paul Robeson in Ocean Grove, New Jersey, and appeared in recital in Beijing, China sponsored by Arts America. Highlights of his 1997-98 season include Pimen in Boris Goudonov with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the cook in the world premiere of Anthony Davis Amistad with Lyric Opera of Chicago, and a series of recitals and master classes in China sponsored by the Rockefeller foundation and the Pew Charitable Trust Foundation. In the summer of 1997 he had great success in South Africa with The Biko Project a recital program he designed and performed at both the Grahamstown Festival and the Market Theatre in Johannesburg. In the 1999-2000 season he appeared at the Sobinov Festival in Russia where he sang the King in Aida and did a tribute recital to Paul Robeson. Mr. Maynor sang in Akhnaten with Boston Lyric Opera, performed the King in Aida with Austin Lyric Opera, the title roles in Boris Gudonov and Mephistofele with the Erie Philharmonic, Fafner in Das Rheingold with L'Opera de Montreal; the Berlioz Romeo et Juliette with the Flint Symphony, Raymond in Lucia di Lammemoor with Mobile Opera and returned to China to sing a series of Recitals. Mr. Maynor has sung Hunding in Die Walkeure with both Scottish Opera and Opera Pacific, Fafner in Das Rheingold with the Opera del Teatro Municipal in Santiago, Chile, and has sung Sargasso in Die Zauberflote in many theaters. Mr. Maynor made his New York City Opera debut in Philip Glass' Akhnaten, and later appeared at the Metropolitan Opera House, where he sang the roles of both the Armchair and the Tree in Ravel's L 'Enfant et Les Sortileges with the Netherlands Dance Theater. His impressive list of opera credits also includes the San Francisco, Boston, Seattle, and Santa Fe Operas. His festival credits include Wolf Trap, Spoleto, and the American Opera Festival in Cincinnati and the Music Under the Stars Festival in Milwaukee. He performed in the world premieres of Ulyssess Kay's Frederick Douglass with New Jersey State Opera (in which he sang the title role) and Anthony Davis' X with the America Music Theater Festival in Philadelphia. Mr. Maynor is also a gifted recitalist and has performed a wide variety of programs throughout North America as well as France, England and Spain. He has appeared as soloist with orchestras across the country including the Buffalo Philharmonic, Fort Worth Symphony, New Orleans Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, the Long Island Philharmonic as well as the Quebec Symphony in Canada. He has worked with such conductors as Dennis Russell Davies, Sarah Caldwell, Christopher Keene, Klaus Donath, Gabor Otvos, Ferdinand Leitner, John Maucieri, Richard Woitach, Eve Queler, Robert Shaw and Julius Rudel. Kevin Maynor has recorded for Telic, Fleur de Son Classics, Guild, Legato Records, and Sony Music (Beijing). Mr. Maynor has a diploma from the Manhattan School of Music, a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Bradley University, a Masters degree from Northwestern University and an Honorary Degree from the Moscow Conservatory. While in Bologna, Italy he studied with Paula Molina at the Teatro Communal di Bologna. He is currently a Doctoral candidate at Indiana University in Bloomington. OPERATIC ROLES 1. SARASTRO 2. OSMIN 3 MEFISTOFELE 4. HAGEN 5. PIMEN 6. KING PHILLIP 7. DALAND 8. JOE 9. COMMENDATORE 10. ARKEL and ETC.... RING PRODUCTIONS: 1 .SCOTTISH OPERA 2 .TEATRO MUNICIPAL DE SANTIAGO 3. DALLAS OPERA 4. SAN FRANCISCO OPERA 5. SEATTLE OPERA