Bio
Baritone Jeffrey Fields has performed regularly throughout California in concert, oratorio and opera since moving to the Bay Area in 1999. In 1998, he was selected as an Adams Fellow at the Carmel Bach Festival and has had numerous solo appearances there since; he will sing the Monteverdi Vespers 1610 there this season. He also sings regularly with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and American Bach Soloists. Mr. Fields made his Carnegie Hall debut in Handel’s Messiah in December 2007. Recent and current engagements include Purcell’s Dioclesian with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Handel’s Alexander’s Feast at UC Davis under Jeffrey Thomas, Brahms’ Requiem in Palo Alto, SF and Berkeley, Mozart’s Requiem with the Marin Symphony, Orff’s Carmina Burana at Stanford, Handel’s Samson with Philharmonia Baroque, Acis and Galatea (Polyphemus) with Berkeley Opera, the title role in Mendelssohn’s Elijah with Marin Oratorio, Mendelssohn’s St. Paul in Berkeley, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion at the Carmel Bach Festival and the Bach Society of St. Louis, the Requiems of Fauré and Duruflé, and Haydn’s Creation in Seattle.
Mr. Fields did his voice study and taught voice and Singers’ Diction at the University of Iowa with Albert Gammon and John van Cura, and was an artist fellow for three seasons at the Bach Aria Festival, Stony Brook, New York. He was a three-time winner of the NATS Central Region auditions. His wide repertoire includes Marcello in Puccini’s La Boheme, Papageno in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, and King Herod in Massenet’s Herodiade, as well as a broad spectrum of concert works, oratorios and art song.
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