Tenor Roderick George made his New York Lincoln Center debut in Handel’s Messiah at David Geffen Hall. Recent engagements have included Messiah in Dallas for the Highlander Concert Series, Lili Boulanger’s Faust et Hélène with New York Repertory Orchestra, Messiah with North Carolina Baroque Orchestra, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with Alabama Symphony, Carmina Burana with Huntsville Symphony, Mozart Requiem with Northwest Florida Symphony, and Hailstork’s I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes with Nashville Symphony and Vocal-Essence in Minneapolis. He has been heard in numerous performances of Dett’s The Chariot Jubilee, most recently at the University of Maryland and on the self-titled recording of the Oakwood Aeolians. Internationally, he has concertized in Spain, France, Austria, Ireland, the United Kingdom and throughout Russia. On the operatic stages, he has sung a diversity of leading lyric tenor roles in operas such as Don Giovanni, Die Zauberflöte, Madama Butterfly, La Bohème, Romeo et Juliette, Lakmé, Porgy and Bess, and The Merry Widow. Recent seasons have included Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore with Opera Birmingham, Alfredo in La Traviata with Opera Wilmington, and the Leader in Lost in the Stars with Union Avenue Opera. Championing American art song, he specializes in songs of H.T. Burleigh and settings of texts by Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes. He sang the world premiere performance of Adolphus Hailstork’s “Four Romantic Love Songs” on poems of Dunbar. A featured artist with the Jason Max Ferdinand Singers, he has made recent appearances at Chorale Canada in Toronto, the National American Choral Director’s Association Conference in Cincinnati, Kennedy Center with Jacob Collier, and on NBC’s Saturday Night Live with British rock sensation Coldplay. He has also toured with the American Spiritual Ensemble. Based in Birmingham, Alabama, Dr. George heads the voice program at the University of Montevallo and holds a doctorate in performance from The Florida State University, a master’s degree in opera and music theater from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, with advanced study in Austria at the American Institute of Musical Studies. He is also an alum of the National Association of Teachers of Singing Intern Program. www.roderickgeorge.com
