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Daniel Weeks, tenor...

b i o g r a p h y...........back to roster....up March 2012 A lyric tenor with an italianate timbre and a wide vocal range, Daniel Weeks has garnered praise from critics and audiences alike. “Weeks' voice soared through the score, always with a crystalline tone,” observed The Louisville Courier. And the Columbus Dispatch noted that he “satisfied the ears again with impeccable phrasing and intonation. He has a lovely, freely resonant tenor.” His varied career encompasses the opera stage, oratorios with orchestras, recitals and a teaching position at the University of Louisville.  2011/12 brings an array of re-engagements, among them a recital at the Tuesday Musical Club, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with National Chorale and Bach’s Magnificat at the Winter Park Bach Festival. Last season’s highlights include Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 engagements with the National Chorale and Bozeman Symphony. 2009/10 saw his return to Kentucky Opera singing the role of Curly in Of Mice and Men, as well as performing Messiah with the Indianapolis Symphony and the Bach Magnificat with the Houston Symphony. During 08/09, Weeks sang Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with National Chorale, Messiah with Memphis Symphony, Lord Nelson Mass with the Columbus and Huntsville symphonies, and Rossini’s Stabat Mater at the Winter Park Bach Festival. In the 2007/08 season, Daniel Weeks made his debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony in Handel’s Messiah and took part in an opera gala with the Johnstown Symphony. He returned to the Cincinnati Opera for the world-premiere of Rise for Freedom: The John P. Parker Story by composer Adolphus Hailstork and librettist David Gonzalez, commissioned by Cincinnati Opera. Later he returned to the Kentucky Opera in Dialogues of the Carmelites by Francis Poulenc and closed the season with Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the National Chorale at Avery Fisher Hall. During 2006/07, Weeks sang Normanno in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor with the Kentucky Opera and appeared with the Columbus Symphony in Schubert's Mass in E-Flat and Haydn's The Seasons. Engagements with the Florida Orchestra (Schubert's Mass in E-Flat), Xalapa Symphony in Mexico (Haydn’s The Seasons), and Mozart’s Requiem at Carnegie Hall as part of MidAmerica Productions completed that season, followed by a summer 2007 portrayal of Count Almaviva in the Belleayre Music Festival’s production of Il barbiere di Siviglia. Weeks has appeared with major symphonies across the United States, including the Houston Symphony in a Bruckner Te Deum and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Dallas Symphony, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Carnegie Hall, and the Cincinnati Symphony, respectively. Repeat performances have brought him also to the Oratorio Society of New York, the Columbus Symphony and the Louisville Orchestra. Other orchestras have included the Westchester Philharmonic, Chatauqua Symphony, Kentucky Symphony, Sioux City Symphony, Hilton Head Orchestra, and the Brevard Orchestra with Keith Lockhart. On the operatic stage, Weeks has performed repeatedly with the Cincinnati Opera (Don Basilio in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, Fourth Jew in Strauss' Salome, and Howard Boucher in Heggie's Dead Man Walking), Kentucky Opera (Fourth Jew in Strauss' Salome, and Triquet in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin), Florentine Opera of Milwaukee (Flute in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream), Austin Lyric Opera (Pong in Puccini's Turandot), and Nevada Opera (Almaviva in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia). In 2001, he toured the United States as Ferrando in Mozart's Così fan tutte with San Francisco Opera's Western Opera Theater.  A winner of the National Federation of Music Clubs Young Artist Competition and a national finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Daniel Weeks was invited by Marilyn Horne to give his New York recital debut under the auspices of her foundation in 2000. That success led to recitals and master classes across thirteen states as part of the Horne Foundation’s recital / residency presentations.  When not performing with orchestras or at opera houses, Daniel Weeks brings his expertise to the next generation of singers at the University of Louisville, where he is a member of the voice faculty since 1998. Frequently giving master classes as part of his concert engagements, he was selected a featured guest artist of the Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, Poland, in an exchange program between the University of Louisville and that academy.  In 2006, Weeks and pianist Naomi Oliphant received a women’s studies grant from the University of Louisville to record their recital entitled, Women of Firsts, which showcases Art Songs of women composers who were the first in their respective countries to achieve national and international recognition for their compositions. It features songs by Lili Boulanger (France), Vítězslava Kaprálová (Czech Republic), Grażyna Bacewicz (Poland), and Amy Beach (America).  b i o....r e s u m e....r e p e r t o i r e....r e v i e w s back to roster...up . click here to read Daniel Weeks' resume (MS Word) . . .

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