Baritone soloist opens Music on Sunday

FREMONT -- Opening Terra Community College's Music on Sunday series this Sunday,Oct. 5, is baritone soloist Dorian Payton Hall.

The concert will include great baritone repertoire from composers Brahms, Ravel, Schubert and Verdi. Hall is a native of New Orleans, La. He received his bachelor of music degree in vocal performance from Loyola University, New Orleans, in 2002. In 2005, he received his master's from the University of Michigan. His teachers have included Philip Frohnmayer, George Shirley, and Grace Bumbry.

He has made appearances with New Orleans Opera, Jefferson Performing Arts Society and Michigan Opera Theatre, and has appeared in roles such as the Customs House Official (La Bohéme) and the Imperial Commissioner (Madama Butterfly). In 2006, he made his Brevard Music Festival debut as Escamillo in Bizet's Carmen. Solo appearances in concert have included Messiah, Fauré Requiem, Mozart Requiem, and Mozart's Mass in C Minor.

Recently, Hall made his debut with the Illinois Symphony as soloist in the Fauré Requiem. Upcoming engagements include Orff's Carmina Burana and the Brahms Requiem. Hall has also done musical tributes to the great spiritual composer William Grant Still. Hall currently resides in Ann Arbor, Mich.

Hall's concert will be 4 p.m. this Sunday at Grace Lutheran Church, located at 705 W. State St., Fremont. The concert is free and open to the public to come and hear this upcoming baritone soloist.

For more information, contact Terra's Department of Music, Arts and Humanities at 419-559-2233.