Department of Music Faculty
Jeffrey McEvoy, DMAVoicePersonal website: www.jeffreymcevoy.com
During the 2009–10 season, McEvoy will originate the role of Billy Boggs in a premier performance of the new opera Holy Ghosts, based on the play by Romulus Linney with music by Larry Bell, for Berklee School of Music. He will also debut with Commonwealth Opera of Northampton, Massachusetts, and Riverside Theatre Works of Boston, as Guglielmo in their respective productions of Mozart's Così fan tutte. During the previous season, McEvoy sang the role of Sciarrone in Tosca as a resident artist for Connecticut Opera, and in an intense schedule of concerts and performances throughout greater Connecticut, New York, and western Massachusetts, he performed the role of Dmitri in The Music Shop and proudly scared thousands of children as the Big Bad Wolf in Barab's Little Red Riding Hood. In 2008, McEvoy played the role of Masetto in Connecticut Opera's Don Giovanni and made three debuts: with Opera Boston in The Bartered Bride; as Ramiro in OperaHub's L'Heure espagnole; and as Escamillo in Boston Opera Collaborative's Carmen. McEvoy has been a resident young artist with Kansas City Lyric Opera, a studio artist with Sarasota Opera, and a summer apprentice with Lake George Opera and Des Moines Metro Opera. McEvoy holds a bachelor of arts degree from John Brown University, a master's degree from Wichita State University, and a doctorate in music from the University of Kansas. He has been a Kansas City district finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and first place winner in the Midwest district of the National Association of Teachers of Singing competition in both the Graduate and Senior Men divisions. |
American baritone Jeffrey McEvoy is at home in both concert and operatic repertoire. He performs Italian and French baritone roles and is a dramatic interpretor of 20th century music.