WORLD PREMIERE: 26 Ways of Looking at a Black Man w/ Sidney Outlaw

About Bayview Opera House, Inc.Founded in 1989 to manage programs from the historic 1888 South San Francisco Opera House, Bayview Opera House, Inc. (BVOH) is a 501 (c) (3) organization with a mission to serve as the focal point of Art and Culture in the Bayview Hunters Point community by providing accessible diverse, and high-quality arts education, cultural programs and community events in a safe environment.Contact:Bayview Opera HouseRuth Williams Memorial Theater4705 Third StreetSan Francisco, CA 94124www.bvoh.orgo:  415-824-0386f:  415-824-7124e: info.bvoh@bvoh.org

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Bayview Opera House Inc. in collaboration with Merola Opera Program are excited to present Sidney Outlaw and Warren Jones in concert.

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B﻿VOH is excited to collaborate with Merola Opera Program for a ONE NIGHT ONLY RECITAL with Sidney Outlaw and Warren Jones where they will have the WORLD PREMIERE of 26 Ways of Looking At A Black Man composed by B.E. Boykin!The program includes works by Faure, Brahms, William Grant Still, and Mohammed Fairouz’s “Deep Rivers” featuring 5 members of the Oakland Symphony.T﻿his once-in-a-lifetime recital kicks of the BVOH Juneteenth Series inviting guests to explore the various forms of liberation and lamentation. Performance: 7:00pm R﻿un time: 90 minutes with intermission *﻿* BVOH and Merola Opera Program will be hosting a special event for school-aged children with Sidney Outlaw on June 2nd at 4:00pm at the Ruth Williams Memorial Theater. For more information please contact BVOH Program Manager Ashley Smiley at: smiley@bvoh.org**~﻿~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~A﻿BOUT THE ARTISTS:SIDNEY OUTLAW, BARITONELauded by The New York Times as a “terrific singer” with a “deep, rich timbre” and the San Francisco Chronicle as an “opera powerhouse” with a “weighty and forthright” sound, Sidney Outlaw was the Grand Prize winner of the Concurso Internacional de Canto Montserrat Caballe in 2010 and continues to delight audiences in the U.S. and abroad with his rich and versatile baritone and engaging stage presence. A graduate of the Merola Opera Program and the Gerdine Young Artist Program at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, this rising American baritone from Brevard, North Carolina recently added a GRAMMY nomination to his list of accomplishments for the Naxos Records recording of Darius Milhaud’s 1922 opera trilogy, L’Orestie d’Eschyle in which he sang the role of Apollo.In the 2022-2023 season, baritone Mr. Outlaw sings Schaunard in La bohème with Greensboro Opera, Dizzy Gillespie in Yardbird with New Orleans Opera, and brings his celebrated Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro to Opera Omaha. On the concert platform, he makes his debut with Boston Baroque as soloist in Handel’s Messiah and returns to Oratorio Society New York as soloist in Bach’s B Minor Mass. Mr. Outlaw appeared as Salieri in Mozart and Salieri with Opera San Jose, Jake in Porgy and Bess with Greensboro Opera, and Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia with Pensacola Opera and Opera Saratoga in the 2020-2021 season. Prior to that, Mr. Outlaw made his San Francisco Opera debut as the First Mate in Billy Budd, sang the Messiah with the National Symphony Orchestra and the Baltimore Symphony, and sang the role of Tommy McIntyre in Fellow Travelers with Madison Opera. A sought-after concert singer and recitalist, Mr. Outlaw collaborates regularly with renowned pianists Warren Jones, Carol Wong, Steven Blier, and Michael Barrett. Mr. Outlaw has been a featured recitalist with Warren Jones at Carnegie Hall and performed Elijah with the New York Choral Society. He traveled to Guinea as an Arts Envoy with the U.S. State Department, where he performed a program of American music in honor of Black History Month and in remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King. WARREN JONES, PIANISTWarren Jones performs with many of today’s best-known artists, including Stephanie Blythe, Denyce Graves, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Anthony Dean Griffey, Ruth Ann Swenson, Bo Skovhus, Samuel Ramey, James Morris and John Relyea—and is Principal Pianist for the exciting California-based chamber music group Camerata Pacifica. He was given the very prestigious Achievement Award by the Music Teachers National Association at their national convention in 2011, the highest award that the Association bestows; he was named Collaborative Pianist of the Year for 2010 by the publication Musical America, and the same year was named Vocal Coach of the Year by the publication Classical Singer. In addition, he received an Honorary Doctorate in Music from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 2010. In the past he has partnered such great performers as Marilyn Horne, Håkan Hagegård, Kathleen Battle, Barbara Bonney, Carol Vaness, Judith Blegen, Tatiana Troyanos and Martti Talvela, and has a discography of more than 25 recordings with artists he has performed with over the years. Mr. Jones is a member of the faculty at the Manhattan School of Music, coaches every summer at the Merola Opera Program, and for many years taught and performed at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara. For ten years he was Assistant Conductor at the Metropolitan Opera and for three seasons served in the same capacity at San Francisco Opera. B.E. BOYKIN, COMPOSERB.E. (Brittney Elizabeth) Boykin is a native of Alexandria, Virginia and comes from a musical family. At the age of 7, she began piano lessons and continued her studies through high school under the tutelage of Mrs. Alma Sanford. Mrs. Sanford guided her through various competitions, such as the NAACP’s ACT-SO competition where she garnered 1st place for 3 consecutive years in the local competition, as well as being awarded The Washington Post “Music and Dance Award” in the spring of 2007.Boykin then pursued her classical piano studies at Spelman College under the leadership of Dr. Rachel Chung. After graduating Spelman College in 2011 with a B.A. in Music, Boykin continued her studies at Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, New Jersey. During her time at Westminster, she was awarded the R and R Young Composition Prize just a few months shy of graduating with her M.M. in Sacred Music with a concentration in choral studies in May, 2013.Boykin’s choral piece, “We Sing as One,” was commissioned to celebrate Spelman College’s 133rd Anniversary of its founding at the 2014 Founders Day Convocation. She has also been featured as the conductor/composer-in-residence for the 2017 Harry T. Burleigh Commemorative Spiritual Festival at Tennessee State University. Boykin has been commissioned and collaborated with several organizations, including a number of ACDA divisions, the Minnesota Opera and the Kennedy Center. She obtained her PhD from Georgia State University with an emphasis in Music Education and is currently an Assistant Professor of Music at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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