Tabor College Concert Series - Roosevelt André Credit

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Friday, March 26, 7:00 PM
Tabor College Shari Flaming Center for the Arts

Roosevelt André Credit’s profound and spirited performances have served to shape his career both nationally and internationally as a bass /baritone. Roosevelt was featured as a “Fisherman” in the 2012 Tony Award Winning and Grammy Nominated Production of The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess on Broadway. He has performed on and off Broadway, playing several roles in the Tony Award winning and national touring companies of Harold Prince’s Show Boat. He has received the 2012 Most Distinguished Alumni Fellow Award from Oregon State University, and was featured vocally in the Oscar winning movie 12 Years A Slave.
His extensive repertoire includes opera, oratorio, jazz, spirituals, pop, and musicals. He has performed with the Chicago Opera Theatre, Birmingham Opera, New York Contemporary Opera, Chautauqua Opera, and was a featured soloist with Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Duke Ellington Orchestra during the Centennial Celebration. Roosevelt was featured in Live from Lincoln Center’s PBS Broadcast production on Show Boat, and made his Carnegie Hall debut singing Schubert conducted by the late Maestro Robert Bass,
His operatic roles include Neborský in Dvořàk’s Dimitrij, Henry in The White House Cantata, Dr. Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia, St. Eustace in Four Saints in Three Acts, Jim in Porgy and Bess, and Figaro in Le nozze de Figaro. His world premiers and recordings include Elegies For the Fallen by Joyce Solomon Moorman; For The People by John W. Jones; Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music by Joshua Rosenblum; and Robert Greenleaf’s Under the Arbor, telecast by Public Broadcast Systems. and most recently Is This America (premier), by Chandler Carter and Diana Solomon-Glover with the Santa Fe Opera.

The concert includes selections from classical repertoire, spirituals, musical theatre, and gospel music.

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Tabor College
400 South Jefferson
Hillsboro, KS
67063

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