L'invitation Au Voyage - Duparc

"Dein ist mein ganzes Herz!" - Léhar

Composer Benjamin Britten

This piece is one of my all time favorite pieces to perform and listen to. This is an excerpt from my senior recital, when I was 22 years old.

Featured in this track:
Conductor: Kedrick Armstrong
Horn: Christina Schempf
Ensemble: Wheaton College Chamber Music Players

Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op. 31: II. Pastoral - Britten

Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op. 31: IV. Elegy - Britten

Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op. 31: V. Dirge

Tenor James Ley, from Maryland, is an Artist Diploma in Opera Studies student at The Juilliard School, where he studies with Edith Wiens. At Juilliard, Mr. Ley has appeared in a shared, semi-staged performance of Winterreise with Brian Zeger in Alice Tully Hall, as Le petit vieillard in L'enfant et les sortilèges with the Juilliard Orchestra conducted by Emmanuel Villaume, and in a master class with Yannick Nézet-Séguin. He recently participated in Carnegie Hall’s SongStudio, where he worked closely with guest teachers and coaches, including Renée Fleming. This past summer, he participated in the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in the Mozart Académie and with the Nϋrnberg Symphoniker through the Internationale Meistersinger Akademie. Before Juilliard, Mr. Ley performed as Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Abraham in a staged production of Britten’s Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac, and in Handel’s Messiah at Wheaton College.

James Ley

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