Bridge Records Management: Stephen Jaffe

Patrick Mason, Baritone

Baritone Patrick Mason has been a soloist with the Takacs String Quartet, the Waverly Consort, and the Boston Camarata. As a recitalist he has appeared in London’s Wigmore Hall, the Cairo Opera House, at festivals in Luxembourg, Holland and in the United States. He has premiered operas by Tod Machover, John Duffy and Randall Shinn in Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles, Boston,Philadelphia and New Mexico. Mr. Mason has worked in recording and performance with composers Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Elliott Carter, George Crumb, John Musto, Ellen Zwillich and Barbara Kolb, and has sung with Speculum Musicae, the Rochester Philharmonic, the Syracuse Symphony, the Colorado Springs Philharmonic, the West Virginia Symphony and the Greeley Philharmonic. Mr. Mason has taught masterclasses at the Hochschule fur Musik in Berlin, the American University in Cairo and throughout the United States. He is currently Associate Professor of Voice at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His latest recording of Songs by the American composer, Amy Beach will be released this Spring on the Bridge Records, with whom Mr. Mason has previously recorded Schubert’s Winterreise and French Melodies by Ravel, Dutilleux, Faure and Poulenc. He has also recorded for Sony, l’Oiseaux Lyre, Erato, Nonesuch, Naxos and CRI. Having been born and raised in the low clay hills above the Ohio River, his passions are (naturally) hiking and ceramics.

Patrick Mason on BRIDGE:
BRIDGE 9007 Tod Machover: VALIS
BRIDGE 9009 New Music with Guitar, Vol. 1-3
BRIDGE 9014 Elliott Carter: The Vocal Works
BRIDGE 9053 Franz Schubert: Winterreise
BRIDGE 9058 French Songs: Melodies
BRIDGE 9182 Songs of Amy Beach

Sound samples:
From Tod Machover's VALIS
From Stephen Sondheim's Sunday Song Set
From Franz Schubert's Winterreise

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