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Spring 2024

January 13, 2024

Soloist (cover)

Too Hot to Handel: The Gospel-Jazz Messiah

Rackham Choir

Detroit Opera House

Detroit, MI

 

January 15, 2024

Soloist and Ensemble 

Adrian Dunn Singers 

King Day Celebration 

National Underground Railroad Museum 

Cincinnati, OH

 

February 8, 2024 

Guest Artist 

Florence Price: A Celebration Photo Exhibit Opening 

Curb Center 

Vanderbilt University 

Nashville, TN 

 

February 23, 2024 

Conductor 

Black Hymnody 

W. Crimm Singers

Wrightman Chapel, Scarritt Bennett Center 

Nashville, TN 

 

February 24, 2024

Guest Artist 

40th Annual National Black Staff Network Conference Awards Banquet

Hyatt Regency Orange County

Garden Grove, CA 

 

March 6-10, 2024

Countertenor Soloist 

James Dargan’s AMASS world premiere 

Early Music Access Project

Charlottesville, VA 

March 23, 2024

Countertenor Soloist 

Orchestre de la Garde républicaine

Africa Lyric’s Opéra

Gala Caritatif

Théâtre des Champs-Elysées 

Paris, France 

 

April 4, 2024

Director and Conceiver 

Phenomenal Women…Phenomenally 

Opera Tigre (formerly Opera Workshop) 

Tennessee State University 

Nashville, TN

 

April 5-6, 2024

Founder and Director 

Harry T. Burleigh Spirituals Festival 

Facing the Rising Sun: Magnifying Black Music and Institutions for All Generations to Come 

National Museum of African American Music 

Nashville Symphony 

105 Voices of History

Tennessee State University 

Nashville, TN 

April 21, 2024

Soloist and Curator 

Sankofa Project: A Journey Through Black Music and Artistry 

Presented by Opera Philadelphia and the International Florence Price Festival 

Mother Bethel AME Church

Philadelphia, PA

 

May 14, 2024

Guest Soloist

LaGuardia Gospel Choir Spring Concert 

Fiorello H. LaGuardia HS of Music & Art and Performing Arts

Concert Hall

New York, NY

 

May 18, 2024

Countertenor Soloist 

J. S. Bach’s St. John’s Passion

Chattanooga Bach Choir 

Chattanooga, TN

 

May 30, 2024

Soloist and Curator 

Sankofa Project: A Journey Through Black Music and Artistry 

Madison Sounds Concert Series in partnership with Price Fest and the National Museum of African American Music 

Madison Avenue Baptist Church 

New York, NY 

Fall 2023

August 15, 2023

Soloist

Senator Thelma Harper Post Office Renaming

Z. Alexander Looby Theater

Nashville, TN

 

September 9, 2023

Featured Artist and Curator

Sankofa Project: A Journey Through Black Music and Artistry

Presented by Opera Philadelphia and the International Florence Price Festival

African American Museum in Philadelphia

Philadelphia, PA

 

September 10, 2023

Conductor and Organizer

My Soul Looks Back: A Gospel Music Heritage Month Celebration Honoring Our Legends

National Museum of African American Music

Nashville Gospel and Sacred Music Coalition

Downtown Presbyterian Church

Nashville, TN

 

October 9, 2023

Host

Florence Price Celebration Series Concert -The Composer’s Workshop

Co-Presented with Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music and the International Florence Price Festival (Price Fest)

 

October 12, 2023

Guest Artist

Florence Price’s Poets

Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University

Nashville, TN

 

October 20, 2023

Soloist

Portrait Unveiling for Honorable Judge Richard H. Dinkins

Nashville Metropolitan Courthouse

Nashville, TN

 

October 29, 2023

Guest Soloist

New Webb Grove AME Church

Murfreesboro, TN

 

November 5

Guest Soloist

Marble Collegiate Church

New York, NY

 

December 2, 2023

Conductor

W. Crimm Singers

43rd Annual Scholarship Luncheon

The Legacy Foundation

Tau Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.

Nashville, TN

 

December 2, 2023

Conductor

W. Crimm Singers

Soulful Celebration of Achievement Gala Brentwood Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.

Jubilee Hall, Fisk University

Nashville, TN

 

December 9, 2023

Soloist and Conductor

W. Crimm Singers

B. Harvey Christmas Benefit Concert

Salama Urban Ministries

Nashville, TN

Past Engagements 

January 5, 2023

Soloist

Early Music City

Monthaven Arts & Cultural Center

Hendersonville, TN

 

February 4, 2023

Soloist/Ensemble

Emancipation: Act 2

Adrian Dunn Singers

RIZE Orchestra

The Colburn School

Los Angeles, CA

 

February 19, 2023

Guest Artist

Cosmopolitan Baroque

Music City Baroque

Nashville, TN

 

March 19, 2023

Countertenor Soloist

Handel’s Messiah

Washington Bach Consort

The Music Center at Strathmore

North Bethesda, MD

 

March 26, 2023

Curator/Director

Harry T. Burleigh Spirituals Festival

Tennessee State University

Nashville, TN

 

March 27, 2023

Curator/Director

Harry T. Burleigh Spirituals Festival Concert

Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

Nashville, TN

 

April 13-16, 2023

Marabout

Lokumbe’s The Jonah People: A Legacy of Struggle and Triumph - World Premiere

Nashville Symphony

Nashville, TN

 

May 10, 2023

Demeter

Nmon Ford’s House of Orfeus (preview)

Opera Carolina

Charlotte, NC

 

May 19-21, 2023

Soloist/Ensemble/Vocal Fellows Mentor

The Thirteen

Washington, D.C.

August 28, 2022

Conductor

Wondrous Grace: Celebrating Five Years of the W. Crimm Singers

W. Crimm Singers (aka Wakanda Chorale)

Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, Inc.

Nashville, TN

 

September 10, 2022

Guest Artist/Curator

The Sankofa Project: A Celebration of Black Music and Artistry

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Germantown

Philadelphia, PA

 

September 30, 2022

Soloist/Ensemble

10th Anniversary Reunion Concert

Inversion Vocal Ensemble

Belmont United Methodist Church

Nashville, TN

 

October 12-13, 2022

Organizer

National HBCU Vocal Competition

105 Voices of History

Partners Achieving Success

Nashville, TN

 

November 6, 2022

Performance Curator

NAACP Freedom Fund

NAACP, Nashville Branch

Nashville, TN

 

November 12, 2022

Curator/Vocal Clinician

Music City Messiah Festival

Early Music City

Big Blue Opera Initiatives

First Lutheran Church

Nashville, TN

 

November 15-20, 2022

Featured Artist

Early Music Access Project

Open Gates Project

Gotham Early Music Scene

New York City, NY

 

November 20, 2022

Featured Artist

Music as the Message: It Takes a Village

American Opera Project and Opera on Tap NYC

Broadway Presbyterian Church

New York City, NY

 

December 3-4, 2022

Alto and Tenor Cover Soloist

Too Hot to Handel: The Jazz-Gospel Messiah

Auditorium Theatre

Chicago, IL

 

December 10-11, 2022

Countertenor Soloist

Handel’s Messiah

Handel Choir of Baltimore

Baltimore, MD

 

December 16-18, 2022

Soloist/Ensemble

Vivaldi’s Gloria and Bach’s Magnificat

The Thirteen

Washington, D.C.

November 10, 2020

Soloist

Telemann’s Ich weiß, daß mein Erlöser lebt, TWV 1:877 (virtual presentation)

Early Music City

First Lutheran Church

first-lutheran-nashville.org

 

November 22, 2020

Panelist and Guest Artist with Francis Perry

Expanding the Narrative: Slave Songs and Spirituals as Early Music

Early Morning Access Project 

www.earlymusiccville.org

November 25, 2020

Lecturer

Connecting the Negro Spiritual to Opera 

Opera in the 21st Century Program

Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity 

www.banffcentre.ca

December 5, 2020

Guest Artist with Chester Burke, pianist

Cocktails & Carols

Master Chorale of Tampa Bay

https://www.masterchorale.com

December 6, 2020

Featured Artist

Home for the Holidays: A Virtual Concert

https://holidaysathome.ticketspice.com/home-for-the-holdays-christmas-concert

December 6, 2020

Honoree

Nashville Black 40 Under 40 Awards Reception

StayOnTheGo.com

 

December 11. 2020

Featured Artist 

Home for the Holidays- Encore Presentation

The Shiloh Hour

Shiloh Baptist Church, Washington, D.C.

Facebook Live-ShilohBaptistChurchDC

December 29, 2020

Featured Artist with Francis Perry and Matthew Phelps

Behold! : A Virtual Recital Series

Project GRADY-RAYAM

Negro Spiritual Scholarship Foundation

www.gradyrayam.org

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