CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON PRESENTS
COUNTERTENOR DAVID DANIELS
IN RECITAL AT NEC’s JORDAN HALL SATURDAY, JANUARY 19

(BOSTON)—Celebrity Series of Boston, Martha H. Jones, President and Executive Director, presents countertenor David Daniels in recital at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall on Saturday, January 19 at 8:00 p.m. Accompanied by pianist Martin Katz, Mr. Daniels performs a program featuring works by Brahms, Handel, Caccini, and Frescobaldi; full program information is listed below. The engagement is sponsored by Talbots Charitable Foundation.

This marks the second Celebrity Series of Boston appearance for David Daniels who made his recital debut with the Series in 2005.

David Daniels is known for his artistry and stage presence, and a voice of warmth and surpassing beauty, all of which have served to redefine his voice category for the modern public. The young American countertenor has appeared with many of the major opera companies of the world and on its main concert and recital stages, making history last season as the first countertenor to give a solo recital in Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall.

Mr. Daniels was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, the son of two singing teachers. He began singing as a boy soprano, moving to tenor as his voice matured, and earned an undergraduate degree from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Dissatisfied with his achievements as a tenor, Mr. Daniels made the switch to countertenor range during graduate studies at the University of Michigan with George Shirley. At the time, prospects of earning a living as a countertenor were not encouraging, but Mr. Daniels persevered and began singing countertenor roles.

As much at home on the recital platform as the opera stage, Mr. Daniels is acclaimed for his performances of an extensive recital repertoire, including song literature of the 19th and 20th centuries not usually associated with his voice type. Mr. Daniels has given recitals at London's Wigmore Hall, New York's Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall and Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center; at Munich's Prinzregententheater and Vienna's Konzerthaus; in Barcelona's Teatre del Liceu; at the Edinburgh and Ravinia Festivals, as well as in Ann Arbor, Chicago, Lisbon, Toronto, Vancouver and Washington. His French debut was a sold-out recital at the Salle Gaveau in Paris.

Mr. Daniels is an exclusive Virgin Classics recording artist, with several best-selling solo albums to his credit. His debut disc was of Handel opera arias conducted by Sir Roger Norrington, followed by Sento Amor, with arias by Mozart, Gluck and Handel, and Serenade, a recital of songs by Beethoven, Gounod, Poulenc, Schubert and others with his frequent piano partner Martin Katz. Mr. Daniels's recording of Handel's Rinaldo (title role) on the Decca label with Cecilia Bartoli received a Gramophone Editor's Choice Album of the Year award in 2002. Daniels has won other prestigious awards as well, including Musical America's Vocalist of the Year in 1999 and the Richard Tucker Foundation Award in 1997.

Opera roles in which Mr. Daniels has excelled include a substantial list of Handel's heroes: Arsace in the comedy Partenope last season at Lyric Opera of Chicago, the title role in Tamerlano, Arsamene in Xerxes, David in Saul and the title role in Rinaldo, as well as Nerone in Monteverdi's Coronation of Poppea. Branching out from baroque roles, Mr. Daniels has shone as Oberon in Britten's Midsummer Night's Dream at the Metropolitan Opera and as Orfeo in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice at Covent Garden.

PROGRAM INFORMATION
DAVID DANIELS, countertenor
Martin Katz, piano
Saturday, January 19 at 8:00 PM
NEC’s Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston

BRAHMS
Auf dem See, Opus 59, no. 2
Ständchen, Opus 106, no. 1
Nicht mehr zu dir zu gehen, Opus 32, no. 2
Mein Mädel hat einen Rosenmund, WoO. 33, no. 25
O wüsst’ ich doch den Weg zurück, Opus 63, no. 8

JACOPO PERI
Gioite al canto mio

FRANCESCO DURANTE
Danza, danza fanciulla

GIULIO CACCINI
Amarilli, mia bella

GIROLAMO FRESCOBALDI
Cosi mi disprezzate

HAHN
A Chloris
Quand je fus pris au pavillon
Chanson au bord de la fontaine
Paysage

HANDEL
"Cara sposa, amante cara" from Rinaldo
"Furibondo spira il vento" from Partenope

QUILTER
Music when soft voices die

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Linden Lea

ELGAR
Where corals lie

HOWELLS
King David

Arr. QUILTER
Drink to me only with thine eyes

WARLOCK
Yarmouth Fair

Sponsored by Talbots Charitable Foundation

TICKETING INFORMATION
Remaining tickets, priced at $45 and $35, are available by calling CelebrityCharge at (617) 482-6661, Monday-Friday 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m., or online at www.celebrityseries.org.

About Celebrity Series of Boston
Celebrity Series of Boston is New England's leading presenter of music, dance, and the performing arts from around the world. Founded in 1938, the Series incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation in 1989. Each year, the Celebrity Series brings to Boston's major concert halls performances by instrumental and vocal soloists, symphony orchestras, chamber ensembles, dance companies, jazz and popular music performers, folk and ethnic performance groups, and other performing artists. The Celebrity Series' Arts, Education and Community program was initiated in 1984. The program reaches thousands of students annually in Boston area schools and communities. The program includes the award-winning AileyCamp Boston, a six-week summer dance program for Boston middle school students, and ACT 2, an after-school initiative for former participants of AileyCamp Boston. For more information on Celebrity Series of Boston, call (617) 482-2595 or visit us online at www.celebrityseries.org.

The Celebrity Series receives major annual support from two anonymous donors; The Little Family Foundation; The Susanne Marcus Collins Foundation; Bank of America; The Linde Family Foundation; Tufts Health Plan; Talbots Charitable Foundation; Foley & Lardner LLP; Charlesbank Capital Partners; Comcast; Morgan Stanley; BDO Seidman; PTC; Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Foundation; Steven and Joan Belkin Foundation; Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; The Consulate General of Canada; The Collings Foundation; The Esther B. Kahn Charitable Foundation; The Red Sox Foundation; Massachusetts Cultural Council; National Endowment for the Arts; New England Foundation for the Arts; Catherine and Paul Buttenwieser Foundation; The Harris A. Berman and Ruth E. Nemzoff Family Foundation; Amy and Joshua Boger; DeMoulas Foundation; Margaret Eagle and Eli Rapaport; Kathleen and Steven Haley; Cerise and Charles Jacobs; Paul L. King; Jann E. Leeming and Arthur D. Little; Paul F. and Barbara A. Levy; Frank and Eleanor Pao; Spring Sirkin and Arthur Frank; Dorothy and Stephen Weber; Nancy Richmond Winsten and Dr. Joseph Winsten; Charles O. Wood, III and Miriam M. Wood; Ellen and Arnold Zetcher.

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