Kenneth Overton
This season, Grammy Award winner Kenneth Overton (he/him) joins the San Francisco Opera as Suleiman in Omar, while covering Abdul/Abe, and the King’s Herald cover in Lohengrin. Overton also joins Portland Baroque Orchestra for the pastiche Dinner with Handel, Opera Montana as Marcello in La bohème, and in concert he joins the Hartford Chorale for part one of Messiah and Bach’s Magnificat, Lyric Fest for their Love Songs Concert, New Choral Society for Elijah, Opera Philadelphia for their Sounds of America: Price and Bonds concert, as well as the Resonance Ensemble for a recital of Black composers’ works, curated by Damien Geter.
Last season, Overton joined Welsh National Opera for two world premieres, leading their production of Migrations and singing Duncan in The Shoemaker. Overton went on to sing Porgy in Porgy and Bess at Opera Carolina and North Carolina Opera. Concert engagements included Duruflé’s Requiem with The Washington Chorus, Porgy and Bess with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra in Hamburg, Daphne with the American Symphony Orchestra, St. John Passion with The Dessoff Choirs, Messiah at the University of Chicago’s Rockefeller Chapel, A Knee on the Neck and Dona Nobis Pacem with the New York Choral Society, the African American Music Festival at Pennsylvania State University, and concerts with the Howland Chamber Music Circle and Spartanburg Philharmonic.
