Jeffrey Fields
Baritone Jeffrey Fields has performed regularly throughout
California as a concert soloist 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 also sings regularly with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and
American Bach Soloists.
Recent and current engagements include the role of
Jesus in Bach's St. Matthew Passion at the Carmel Bach Festival,
Acis and Galatea (Polyphemus) with Berkeley Opera, Bach's Magnificat
in E-flat and Cantata 110 with Philharmonia Baroque, the arias
in the St. Matthew Passion with the Bach Society of St. Louis,
the title role in Mendelssohn's Elijah at the Music in the Mountains
Festival, Haydn's Creation in Los Angeles, Salinas and Carmel;
Bach's B Minor Mass with the San Francisco Bach Choir; Handel's
Messiah in Santa Cruz; and Mozart's C Minor Mass in Ventura.
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 Herod
in Massenet's Herodiade, as well as a broad spectrum of concert
works, oratorios and art song.
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