BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4@millbrookmusicsalon.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250629T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250629T180000 DTSTAMP:20251103T161152Z URL:https://millbrookmusicsalon.org/events/grand-salon-anthony-roth-costan zo-bryan-wagorn/ SUMMARY:Grand Salon: Anthony Roth Costanzo & Bryan Wagorn DESCRIPTION:America's most celebrated countertenor\, Anthony Roth Costanzo (star of Akhnaten at the Metropolitan Opera and GRAMMY nominee for Best So lo Album)\, joins Bryan Wagorn (Assistant Conductor at the Metropolitan Op era) for a program featuring masterworks by Handel\, Philip Glass\, and Li szt\, alongside a selection of jazz classics.\n\n[full_width]\n\n[one_half ]\nAnthony Roth Costanzo\nCountertenor\n\nCountertenor Anthony Roth Costan zo began performing professionally at the age of 11 and has since appeared in opera\, concert\, recital\, film\, and on Broadway. In June 2024\, he began his tenure as the General Director and President of Opera Philadelph ia.\n\nHe has appeared with many of the world’s leading opera houses inc luding the Metropolitan Opera\, Lyric Opera of Chicago\, San Francisco Ope ra\, Opera National de Paris\, English National Opera\, Houston Grand Oper a\, Opera Philadelphia\, Los Angeles Opera\, Canadian Opera Company\, Glyn debourne Opera Festival\, Dallas Opera\, Teatro Real Madrid\, Spoleto Fest ival USA\, Glimmerglass Festival (where he served as the 2023 Artist in Re sidence)\, and Finnish National Opera.\n\nIn concert he has sung with the New York Philharmonic (where he was named The Mary and James G. Wallach Ar tist-in-Residence for the 2021-22 season)\, The Cleveland Orchestra\, Nati onal Symphony Orchestra\, San Francisco Symphony\, Met Orchestra Chamber E nsemble\, Boston Baroque\, Berlin Philharmonic\, NDR at the Elbphilharmoni e in Hamburg\, and the London Symphony Orchestra\, among others. He has al so been presented in recital in Vancouver\, Princeton University Concerts\ , Duke Performances\, and at the Morgan Library in New York. He has perfor med at a wide-ranging variety of venues including Carnegie Hall\, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts\, Versailles\, The Kennedy Center\, The Met ropolitan Museum of Art\, Jordan Hall in Boston\, Wigmore Hall in London\, National Sawdust\, Minamiza Kyoto\, Joe’s Pub\, The Guggenheim\, The Pa rk Avenue Armory\, and Madison Square Garden.\n\nMr. Costanzo’s most rec ent album\, Anthony Roth Costanzo &\; Justin Vivian Bond: Only an Octav e Apart was released in January 2022. His first solo album\, ARC was relea sed in September 2018 and nominated for the 2019 GRAMMY Award for Best Cla ssical Solo Vocal Album. He also stars on the Metropolitan Opera’s recor ding and DVD of Akhnaten which won the 2022 GRAMMY Award for Best Opera Re cording.\n\nA champion of new work\, Mr. Costanzo created roles in the wor ld premieres of John Corigliano’s The Lord of Cries and Gregory Spears ’ The Righteous at the Santa Fe Opera\, Jimmy Lopez’s Bel Canto at the Lyric Opera of Chicago and Jake Heggie’s Great Scott at the Dallas Oper a. He has also premiered works written for him by Joel Thompson\, Matthew Aucoin\, Paola Prestini\, Gregory Spears\, Viet Cuong\, Carlos Simon\, Suz anne Farrin\, Bernard Rands\, Scott Wheeler\, Mohammed Fairouz\, Steve Mac key\, and Nico Muhly.\n\nMr. Costanzo has begun working as a producer and curator in addition to his singing\, creating shows for The BBC Proms\, Th e New York Philharmonic\, Opera Philadelphia\, National Sawdust\, the Phil harmonia Baroque\, The Barnes Foundation\, St. John The Divine\, Princeton University\, WQXR\, The State Theater in Salzburg\, Master Voices and Kab uki-Za Tokyo. During the 2020-21 season\, he created and produced the New York Philharmonic’s Bandwagon initiative\, the orchestra’s innovative response to the pandemic. It began with 81 impromptu concerts in all five boroughs of New York City\, where Mr. Costanzo\, musicians from the orches tra\, and other special guests performed a wide range of repertoire\, incl uding world-premiere commissions. It evolved into a series of festivals cr eated with partner organizations throughout the city\, which utilize the r esources of the Philharmonic to center and amplify the voices of the commu nity.\n\nMr. Costanzo was the recipient of the 2020 Beverly Sills Award fr om the Metropolitan Opera\, a winner of the 2020 Opera News Award\, and th e 2019 Musical America Vocalist of the Year. His many other awards include first place in the 2012 Operalia competition\, a Grand Finals Winner of t he 2009 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions\, a George London Aw ard\, a career grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation\, and the first co untertenor to win First Place in the Houston Grand Opera Eleanor McCullom competition\, where he also won the audience choice prize. He has also rec eived a Sullivan Foundation Award\, and won First Place in the Opera Index Competition\, the National Opera Association Vocal Competition\, and the Jensen Foundation Competition.\n\nMr. Costanzo graduated Magna Cum Laude a nd Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University where he was awarded the Lewis Sudler Prize for extraordinary achievement in the arts and where he has r eturned to teach. He received his Masters of Music from the Manhattan Scho ol of Music\, where he now serves on the board of Trustees as well as on t he board of the National Black Theater. In 2024\, he has been a fellow at Oxford and a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Harvard University.\n\nMr. Costanzo began performing professionally on Broadway and in Broadway Natio nal Tours including A Christmas Carol\, The Sound of Music\, and Falsettos . He began his operatic endeavors playing Miles in The Turn of the Screw a nd shortly thereafter sang alongside Luciano Pavarotti. In film\, he playe d Francis in the Merchant Ivory film\, A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries\ , for which he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award\, Simon in Br ice Cauvin’s De particulier a particulier\, and made a cameo appearance in Rebecca Miller’s She Came to Me. He is also the first countertenor to host Met Opera Live in HD Broadcasts.\n\nThis season\, Mr. Costanzo retur ns to the Boston Lyric Opera to produce and star in The Seasons\, a new wo rk incorporating the music of Vivaldi\, co-created and written by the reno wned playwright and poet Sarah Ruhl. He also stars in and creates a one-ma n rendition of The Nozze di Figaro in the inaugural season of Little Islan d’s new performing arts series in New York\, returns to the Detroit Oper a as the title role in Rinaldo\, and makes his Bay Area recital debut with San Francisco Performances.\n\n\n\n[/one_half][one_half_last]\nBryan Wago rn\nPianist\n\nCanadian pianist and vocal coach Bryan Wagorn regularly per forms throughout North America\, Europe\, and Asia as soloist\, chamber mu sician\, and recital accompanist to the world's leading singers and instru mentalists\n\nBryan has appeared on major television and radio stations in cluding Good Morning America\, WQXR and CBC Radio\, and has performed in r ecital for the George London Foundation\, the Marilyn Horne Foundation and Richard Tucker Foundation.\n\nA participant at the Marlboro Music Festiva l\, and music staff at the Glyndebourne Festival\, Mr. Wagorn has also bee n engaged as Staff Coach at the Ravinia Steans Music Institute\, and serve d on the faculty of the National Arts Centre Orchestra’s Summer Music In stitute and Carnegie Hall's National Youth Orchestra. He has been a guest coach at the Royal Academy of Music in London\, the Metropolitan Opera's L indemann Young Artist Program and at the Glyndebourne Festival’s Jerwood Young Artist Program. He made his solo recital debut at New York's Carneg ie Hall in 2009\, and has performed two extensive tours with Jeunesses Mus icales de Canada\, and performed chamber music with members of The Metropo litan Opera  Orchestra\, the New York Philharmonic\, The Philadelphia Orc hestra\, and the Chicago Symphony. Mr. Wagorn is also on the advisory boar d of the Hildegard Behrens Foundation and the Time In Children's Arts Init iative.\n\nMr. Wagorn holds degrees in piano performance from the Royal Co nservatory of Music in Canada\, the University of Ottawa\, the Mannes Coll ege of Music\, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Manhattan Scho ol of Music. He is a graduate of The Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Ar tist Development Program\, and serves on the faculty of Mannes College of Music.\n\n\n\n[/one_half_last]\n\n[/full_width] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://millbrookmusicsalon.org/wp-content/uploa ds/2025/11/June29_Poster.webp CATEGORIES:2025 Season LOCATION:Thorne Music Center\, Dutchess Day School\, 3323 Franklin Avenue\, Millbrook\, New York\, 12545\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=3323 Franklin Avenue\, Mill brook\, New York\, 12545\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Thorne Music Center\, Dutchess Day School:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR