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The U.S. Embassy Black History Month Concert 2008

"Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. A Celebration of the Architects of Global Movements Towards Peace - with Music and Text"
Distinguished W.E.B. Dubois Lecture Series

Tuesday, February 12, 2008, 18:30
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Reuter Saal, Haus II, Am Hegelplatz, 10117 Berlin

Kevin Maynor

Kevin Maynor, bass, has scored success in over 40 operatic roles in five different languages. He is well-known in both the concert halls and opera houses. He has sung roles with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, New York City Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Opera Orchestra of New York, Cincinnati Opera, Teatro Municipal of Santiago, Edmonton Opera, L'Opera de Montreal, Florida Grand Opera, Opera National du Rhin of France, Dallas Opera, Opera Company of Boston, The Spoleto Festival, Opera Pacific, The Saratov Opera in Russia and Scottish Opera, among others. He has also sung with the symphony orchestras of Atlanta, Forth Worth, Quebec, New Orleans, Milwaukee and the Buffalo and Long Island Philharmonic, The New World Symphony, The American Symphony, among others. Mr. Maynor has sung everywhere from Carnegie Hall to The Beijing Concert Hall in China. As a recitalist, Kevin Maynor has received praise throughout North America, South America. Europe, Australasia and Africa as well as Asia including India and China.

Kevin Maynor will be accompanied by Eric Olsen. Mr. Olsen has worked with a wide variety of distinguished artists throughout his career, among them soprano Jessye Norman. He has also accompanied for the internationally renowned vocal studios of Betty Allen, Klara Barlow, Walter Cassel, Patricia Cioffi, Margaret Harshaw, James King, Martha Lipton, Giorgio Tozzi, and Virginia Zeani. He has accompanied operatic bass Kevin Maynor on four recordings, the Grammy-nominated CD The Black Art Song, Jazz Hymns, and From Another American. He recently collaborated with Kevin Maynor and former NJ Poet Laureate Amiri Baraka on his multimedia work Sisyphus Syndrome.

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. - Fanfare magazine