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for the homeless in NYC with Partnership For The Homeless. Mr. Maynor was also the winner of an Audelco Award for excellence in
theatre for his performance as Paul Robeson with the New Federal Theatre in NYC and Producer Woodie King Jr. In 2005-­‐2006 Mr.
Maynor sang the roles of Sarastro in Mozart's The Magic Flute and Sparafucile in Verdi's Rigoletto with The Des Moines Metro
Opera. He performed in Recital at Winston Salem University , a concert at The Schomburg in New York City, Phillip Hayes Dean's
one man show PAUL ROBESON, with The New Federal Theatre in New York City at the Henry Street Settlement Theatre, followed
by the Beethoven Ninth in West Virginia with The Wheeling Symphony. Mr. Maynor then performed a Mozart concert at Avery
Fisher Hall with The Little Orchestra Society, performing excerpts from Le Nozze di Figaro and Bastien und Bastienne of Mozart. He
then performed the featured recital in the Lincoln Booth Theatre in Washington D.C. during The Here I stand Awards honoring DICK
GREGORY.
During 2004-­‐2005 Kevin Maynor performed Tom with nFlorida Grand Oera in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera, and sang three multi-­‐
media thematic concerts at the prestigioug AUCKLAND FESTIVAL. Mr. Maynor's 2003 -­‐ 2004 season included performances at the
Kravis Center of WestPalm Beach. Florida, where he performed his thematic MULTIMEDIA recital, The Repertoire of Paul Robeson
and 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 Centenial 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 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 this 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 , Raimondo 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 Sarastro 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 include the San Francisco, Boston ,Seattle ,and Santa Fe Operas. His festival credits include Wolf Trap, Spoleto, 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.