Baritone Andrew Garland & Pianist Warren Jones in Coastal Concerts Recital

Rising star baritone Andrew Garland and acclaimed piano accompanist Warren Jones will be in recital at 7:30 P.M. on Saturday, November 6, 2021 in the Fellowship Hall of Bethel Methodist Church, 4th & Market Streets in Lewes rescheduled from the pandemic disrupted 20/21 season. Mr. Garland is widely recognized as a leader in recital work with dozens of performances around the country. Mr. Jones is acknowledged as one of the premier accompanists in the world. Lani Spahr will offer his Performance Insights an hour prior to the concert and Garland and Jones will make an outreach appearance at Seaford High School on the Friday before the Saturday concert. Baritone ANDREW GARLAND is hailed as a performer whose artistry is a perfect combination between “baritone of strength and vocal opulence” (Opera News) and “cosmic energy and suavity” (Opera News).  He is widely recognized as a leader in recital work with dozens of performances around the country including at Carnegie Hall with pianist Warren Jones and in programs all over the United States and in Canada. Jones, Marilyn Horne, Steven Blier, a number of American composers, and several major music publications all endorse him as a highly communicative singer leading the way for the song recital into the 21st Century. Last season, obliterated by COVID-19, Garland was to have been heard as the baritone soloist in The Messiah with the Colorado Symphony and the Colorado Bach Ensemble, the Nashville Symphony’s production of Frank’s Conquest Requiem, the Santa Fe Pro Musica’s production of The Creation, and in a Coastal Concerts recital with Warren Jones. Garland brings his highly communicative style to the concert stage with orchestras including the Atlanta Symphony, Boston Baroque, The Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Youth Symphony, National Philharmonic, Albany Symphony, Washington Master Chorale at the Kennedy Center and National Chorale at Lincoln Center. He is a regular with the New York Festival of Song (NYFOS) and has given multiple recitals at Carnegie Hall, the Ravinia festival as well as Vocal Arts DC, Marilyn Horne Foundation, The Bard Festival, Camerata Pacifica, and many others. Garland’s latest CD, American Portraits (with Donna Loewy, piano) went to Number 1 on the Amazon classical chart. He has five other recordings on the Telarc, Naxos, Roven Records, and Azica labels. Pianist WARREN JONES enjoys a notably eclectic career that has taken him to nearly every corner of the musical world. He performs with some of today’s best-known artists: Stephanie Blythe, Anthony Dean Griffey, Bo Skovhus, Eric Owens, John Relyea, and Richard “Yongjae” O’Neill—and is the Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Principal Pianist for the exciting Santa Barbara-based chamber music group Camerata Pacifica. In the past he has partnered such great performers as Marilyn Horne, Håkan Hagegård, Kathleen Battle, Samuel Ramey, Christine Brewer, Barbara Bonney, Carol Vaness, Judith Blegen, Salvatore Licitra, Tatiana Troyanos, Thomas Hampson, James Morris, and Martti Talvela. He is a long-time member of the faculty of Manhattan School of Music as well as the Music Academy of the West, and received the “Achievement Award” for 2011 from the Music Teachers National Association of America, their highest honor.  In 2010, he was selected as “Collaborative Pianist of the Year” by the publication Musical America.  He has been an invited guest at the White House to perform for state dinners in honor of the leaders of Canada, Russia, and Italy; and three times the invited guest of the Justices of the United States Supreme Court for musical afternoons in the East Conference Room at the Court. A graduate of both New England Conservatory and San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Mr. Jones currently serves on the NEC Board of Visitors and has been honored with the Doctor of Music degree from SFCM. His discography contains thirty-one recordings on every major label in a wide range of repertory. # # # # # Venue: Bethel United Methodist Church Hall. Presenter: Coastal Concerts.