Joseph Parrish in recital

“Songs from the Harlem Renaissance”

A Black History Month Concert

Program to be announced

Joseph Parrish returns to Baruch PAC following his 2023 debut with an evening of art songs from the Harlem Renaissance,curated specially for his Baruch appearance.

Baritone Joseph Parrish was a recipient of the 2024 Sullivan Grant, a member of the Salzburger Festspiele Young Singers Project for the 2024 festival season, and a third prize winner in the Opera Index Voice Competition 2024. In addition to his achievements on the competition stage, Joseph is winner of the 2022 Young Concert Artists Susan Wadsworth International Auditions.

During the 24-25 season, Joseph made his New York City solo recital debut at Kaufman Music Center’s Merkin Hall in a performance co-presented by Washington Performing Arts  with the Washington Performing Arts Children of the Gospel Choir as a follow up to his Kennedy Center debut the previous season with the same program. He joined MasterVoices to sing the role of Earl Mann’s Cellmate/Edward Vernon/Ensemble in Davenport Richards and Cote’s Blind Injustice and Town Hall NYC as James Baldwin in Sneed and Chilton’s The Tongue and the Lash. On the concert stage, Joseph performed as bass soloist in Händel’s Messiah with the Oratorio Society at Carnegie Hall and Richmond Symphony, Christus in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with Musica Sacra, and baritone soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with The Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts. 

Additional notable engagements include performances with Ames Town & Gown, the Harriman-Jewell Series, Detroit Chamber Music Society alongside the Miro String Quartet, Newport Classical, Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, Caramoor’s Schwab Vocal Rising Stars, Death of Classical, Carnegie Hall Citywide Concerts, The Kravis Center (West Palm Beach, FL), New York Festival of Song, and concerts with New York’s American Classical Orchestra, Bay Atlantic Symphony, Memphis Symphony, Aiken Symphony, Princeton Pro Musica, and the Ann Arbor Symphony.

Joseph made his European opera debut with the Salzburg Festival as Potapitsch in Prokofiev’s The Gambler and his European solo recital debut at the Usedomer Music Festival. He also debuted on the main stage with Cincinnati Opera, singing Masetto in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, and joined Parlando NYC for a semi-staged production of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Mozart e Salieri, as Salieri. Previous operatic highlights include the title role in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, Dr. Cajus in Nicolai’s Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor, and Dulcamara in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore at Juilliard. A champion of both early and modern music, Joseph has sung the roles of Augure in Rossi’s L’Orfeo, Il Sacerdote di Minerva in Händel’s Teseo, and Sodbuster in Mazzoli and Vavrek’s Proving Up. He has also participated in masterclasses with Stéphane Degout, Denyce Graves, and Hartmut Höll.

During the 25-26 season Joseph will appear in recital with Ashmont Hill Chamber Music, New York Foundation of Song, and Weinberg Center for the Arts. He’ll also appear as soloists with the Maryland Symphony, Anchorage Symphony, Oratorio Society of New York at Carnegie Hall, Concert Artists of Baltimore, and Cathedral of St. John the Divine.  He’ll also appear alongside members of The Orchestra of St. Luke’s in a chamber music program that will tour throughout the five boroughs of NYC.