Patrick Mason, baritone

Patrick Mason, a baritone on the faculty of the University of Colorado, performs operatic and concert repertoire throughout the world. Most recently he has been heard in recitals at the Library of Congress and Belmont University, in contemporary music at New York’s Alice Tully Hall and in a leading role in the new opera Sara McKinnon in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

He sang the New York premier of Black Water by John Duffy and Joyce Carol Oates at the Cooper Union. Mr. Mason has been a guest soloist with the Syracuse Symphony, the Rochester Philharmonic, Colorado Springs Symphony and the Greeley Philharmonic, with whom he recently sang Britten’s War Requiem. He has recorded music from tenth-century chant to songs by Stephen Sondheim for Sony, Vox, L’Oiseaux-Lyre, and Erato. His two most recent CD releases on the Bridge Records label are Schubert’s Winterreise (BCD 9053) and French Mélodies with pianist Robert Spillman (BCD 9058), containing songs by Ravel, Fauré, Dutilleux and Poulenc.

Having been born and raised in the low clay hills above the Ohio River, his passions are (naturally) hiking and ceramics. He has sung with NYFOS on several occasions, including Rivers and Rainbows in 1995 and The Unknown Bernstein in 2001.