Classics 2012-2013 Biographies - The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

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Sat, June 1, 8pm
Sun, June 2, 2:30pm
JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Chloë Hanslip, violin
Kevin Maynor, bass
Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus
GABRIELI Canzonas for Brass Choirs
PAGANINI Violin Concerto No.1
PIZZETTI Venetian Rondo
BOITO Prologue in Heaven from Mefistofele
Pinnacle Arts Mgmt
John J. Miller
jmiller@pinnaclearts.com
212-­‐397-­‐7911
http://kevinmaynor.com/
Reviewing 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 50 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."
Kevin Maynor's 2011 -­‐ 2012 season includes The Four Serious Songs, by Johannes Brahms and the Ruckert Lieder of Gustav Mahler,
followed by the The Songs and Dances of Death by Modeste Mousorgsky in Long Island , New York. The Bass appeared in Nat
Turner by Michael Raphael, Frederick Douglass by Dorothy Rudd Moore and Treemonisha by Scott Jpplin with Newark's Trilogy: An
Opera Company. Kevin Maynor will perform five (5) recitals for Creative Arts Healthcare at UMDNJ from December to April,
performing Schubert, Mahler, Still, Kaye, as well as art songs from young American composers and arrangers. . Maynor's 2010-­‐2011
season included Franz Schubert's Schwanengesang in New York, with appearances in Texas singing the bass solos in the Rossini
STABAT MATER with the San Antonio Symphony followed by Arigo Boito's MEFISTOFELE , performing the Prologue scene in Virginia
Beach, Newport News, and Norfolk, Virginia with Maestra Joann Falletta and the Virginia Symphony, to be repeated with the
Buffalo Philharmonic. Kevin Maynor returns to New York's Avery Fisher Hall for Balthazaar in AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS,
with The Little Orchestra Society. Mr. Maynor was recently named Cultural Envoy to the Pacific Islands and Eastern Asia as ordered
by the United States Congress. Mr. Maynor performed excerpts from Jerome Kern's " SHOWBOAT" and Scott Joplin's
"TREEMONISHA" in Taiwan with the Kaohsiung Symphony Orchestra.While in Taiwan, Maynor travels to Taipei, Tainai, and New
Taipei for recitals on American Historical figures. The American Bass performed King Mark in Richard Wagner's TRISTAN UND
ISOLDE at the Festival Amazonas De Opera in Manaus ,Brazil. He will Also record Carlos Gomez's CONDOR in SOUTH AMERICA as
well. In New Yorks Alice Tully Hall , Maynor will sing the bass solos in Arthur Honneger's JEAN OF ARC. Recent performances also
include Schubert's Die Winterreise in NEW YORK and the role of NED in Scott Joplin's TREEMONISHA at Newark New Jersey's
Trilogy:aoc. The American bass performed an all english program for Seton Hall University at THE SOUTH ORANGE PERFORMING
ARTS CENTER, with the great violinist Joshua Bell for the Prestigious S.Rose Thering Endowment. Maynor continues recording,
adding three new cd's "ME AND VERDI", OLD MAN RIVER, and THE SPIRITUAL: AN UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, as a Barnes and
Noble artist. Highlights of Mr. Maynor's past season are a CARNEGIE HALL RECITAL appearance, "Honor the Voice", with Jessye
Norman, a nine state and 14 cities concert tour in America, followed by the VERDI REQUIEM and BRAHMS REQUIEM in Santa Fe
with the SANTA FE SYMPHONY AND ROANOKE SYMPHONY in VIRGINIA. In 2007 -­‐ 2008, Mr. maynor performed recitals in New York
at Adelphi University and St. Francis college. He Traveled over seas to perform a United States State Department Recital Tour in
Europe, including Paris, Strasburg, Berlin, Munich, and Nuremberg, among other cities. The celebrated basso performed the role of
Grabeau in Anthony Davis' opera "AMISTAD" during the SPOLETO ,U.S.A. festival. Kevin Maynor, was once again with The Little
Orchestra Society in Gian Carlo Menotti's "Amahl and The Night Visitor" at Avery Fisher Hall in New York City. In the previous
season, Kevin Maynor's performances included Anchorage Opera (Viva Verdi)[ Bass arias and duets from Don Carlo, Macbeth,
Simon Boccanegra, and La Forza del Destino] , the WQXR broadcast for the MLK Jr. holiday, Opera Birmingham, and The Midland
Symphony ,with recitals in Freeport, NY and Newark NJ. as well as a concert performance of Turandot singing the role of TIMUR
with the New York City Opera and the Westfield Symphony. Recently ,Kevin Maynor joined soprano Jessye Norman in a fund raiser