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Press Release

October 24, 2023

For Immediate Release

Press Contact:
Gail Wein - (646) 484-9691

December 2 at 7:30 pm

Baruch Performing Arts Center presents


Bass-baritone Joseph Parrish

Program features recital favorites by Mahler, Wolf, Ravel, and more paired with works by Margaret Bonds, Charles Brown, H. Leslie Adams, and Harry Burleigh

"simply riveting" - Parterre Box

On Saturday, December 2 at 7:30 pm, Baruch Performing Arts Center presents bass-baritone Joseph Parrish at Engelman Recital Hall. Tickets are $40 ($25 with Baruch ID), available here. The concert is part of the Freda and Aaron Silberman Recital Series.

Parrish is a rising star, having won the 2022 Young Concert Artists Susan Wadsworth International Auditions. His program at Baruch PAC features Mahler's "Aus! Aus!", Ravel's "Don Quixote à Dulcinée", and Donizetti's "Sull'onda cheta e bruna". Concluding the program are works by four prominent Black American composers from the 20th century, Harry Burleigh, H. Leslie Adams, Charles Brown, and Margaret Bonds.

Parrish performs Harry Burleigh's "Elysium"

Baruch Performing Arts Center is at 55 Lexington Avenue (enter on 25th Street between Third and Lexington Avenues, on the south side of the street) in the heart of Manhattan. Praised for its superb acoustics, the Rosalyn and Irwin Engelman Recital Hall has been called "a perfect hall for chamber music" by Anthony Tommasini of The New York Times

COMING UP AT BARUCH PAC

November 6, 7 pm

BPAC is the New York State host of a nationwide reading of “Enough! Plays to End Gun Violence”. Featured are six plays penned by high students from around the country addressing this vital topic, selected through a competition, to be read by students from New York City schools who participate in the CAT Youth Theatre program.


Presented by Baruch in partnership with Creative Arts Team. Proceeds benefit Center for Justice Innovation.


Pay what you wish tickets here.

CALENDAR LISTING

December 2, 2023 at 7:30 pm

Baruch Performing Arts Center presents:


Joseph Parish, bass-baritone


Engelman Recital Hall at Baruch Performing Arts Center

55 Lexington Ave., New York, NY

(enter on 25th St. between 3rd and Lexington Aves)


Tickets are $40 ($25 with Baruch ID) available at bpac.baruch.cuny.edu



This concert is part of the Freda and Aaron Silberman Recital Series.

PROGRAM

Gaetano Donizetti: Sull’onda cheta e bruna

Stefano Donaudy: Come l’allodoletta

Gaetano Donizetti: Amore e morte


Enrique Granados: El majo olvidado


Hugo Wolf: Der Tambour

Hugo Wolf: Fußreise

Gustav Mahler: Aus! Aus!


Sergei Rachmaninov: Morning

Sergei Rachmaninov: Love’s Flame

Sergei Rachmaninov: The Lilacs


Maurice Ravel: Don Quichotte à Dulcinée


Harry Burleigh: Elysium

H. Leslie Adams: For You There Is No Song

Charles Brown: A Song Without Words

Margaret Bonds: Song to the Dark Virgin


Program is subject to change

About the Artist

Winner of the 2022 YCA Susan Wadsworth International Auditions, Joseph Parrish is a Baltimore native and holds degrees from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and The Juilliard School. Recent operatic credits include Dulcamara in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore, and Augure in Rossi’s L’Orfeo at Juilliard; Spinelloccio in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi with Festival Napa Valley, Le Baron de Pictordu in the City Lyric Opera’s production of Viardot’s Cendrillon. Next season Joseph makes his Cincinnati Opera debut in Don Giovanni. In addition to opera, Mr. Parrish enjoys a robust concert career performing with orchestra and in recitals at such prestigious venues as The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, Alice Tully Hall, St. Boniface Church in Brooklyn, and both Weill Recital Hall and Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall.


Recent and upcoming performances co-presented by WPA, Newport Classical, Bridgehampton Chamber Festival, New York’s American Classical Orchestra, Caramoor’s Schwab Vocal Rising Stars, Death of Classical, Usedome Music Festival, Carnegie Hall Citywide Concerts, The Kravis Center in West Palm Beach, Denison University in Granville, OH, Sleepy Hollow Friends of Chamber Music, NYFOS, and in concert with Bay Atlantic Symphony, Memphis Symphony, Aiken Symphony, Princeton Pro Music, and the Ann Arbor Symphony. 


As a current artist diploma candidate in opera studies at The Juilliard School, Mr. Parrish is passionate about giving back to the various communities that have nurtured him. He is a Music Advancement Program chorus teaching fellow, Gluck Community Service Fellow, and Morse Teaching Artist. Mr. Parrish is also a member of the inaugural cohort of Shared Voices, an initiative designed to address diversity, equity, and inclusion through collaboration between Historically Black Colleges and Universities, top conservatories, and schools of music in the United States with the Denyce Graves Foundation.