Avery Griffin, baritone

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Union City, NJ, 07087 email: abqfei@r.postjobfree.com

Performance Performed with the Mark Morris Dance Group as a member of the pit chorus in:

Experience Purcell's Dido and Aeneas as a member of the Trinity Choir at the Golden Mask Festival in Moscow

in March of 2010

Handel's L'allegro, il Penseroso, ed il Moderato for the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center in

August of 2010

Member of the opera chorus at the 2007 Spoleto USA Festival's production of Kurt Weill's Aufstieg

und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny

Member: the Choir of Men and Boys at St. Thomas Church, 5th Avenue (Sept 2010-present)

Member: Festival Chorale of the Carmel Bach Festival (July 2011-present)

Member: The Clarion Music Society (Sept 2011-present)

Member: Toby Twining Music (February 2010-present)

Charter/current member: Roomful of Teeth, an eight-voice new music ensemble dedicated to the

building of a new vocal repertoire (June 2009-present)

Member: the Trinity Choir at Trinity Church, Wall Street (Sept 2007-Aug 2010)

Charter/current member: NotaRiotous, the chamber ensemble of the Boston Microtonal Society,

dedicated to the performance of microtonal music (May 2007-present)

Voice Teachers/Coaches Composers (not exhaustive) Conductors (not exhaustive)

Kathy Bruns (Coach) Vartan Aghababian (A Legende of Echoes) Simon Carrington (Trinity Guest)

Richard Cornell (Coach) Martin Amlin (Two Songs to Poems by Anne Steven Fox (Trinity Interim)

Fessenden)

Elem Eley (Voice Teacher) Joseph Flummerfelt (Spoleto USA)

James Bergin (Kyrie, De Profundis)

Peter Elvins (Voice Teacher) Paul Goodwin (Carmel Bach Festival)

William Britelle (Amid the Minotarus)

Phyllis Hoffman (Voice Teacher) Jane Glover (Trinity Guest Cond.)

Caleb Burhans (Beneath, No)

Sheila Kibbe (Coach) David Hoose (Boston U)

Pascale Criton (Elle est Mignon)

Richard Lippold (Coach) Scott Allen Jarrett (Boston U)

Jason Eckardt (Excelsior ab Intra)

Ketty Nez (Coach) Anne Howard Jones (Boston U)

Judd Greenstein (AEIOU, Amergin)

Patrick Yacono (Coach) Andrew Megill (Trinity Interim)

John Magnussen (Psalm) Andrew Parrott (Trinity Guest)

Ezra Sims (Five Songs for Baritone) Stephan Parkman (Trinity Guest)

Sarah Kirkland Snider (Unremembered) John Scott (St Thomas)

Toby Twining (Playing in the Waves, The Brad Wells (Roomful of Teeth)

String Room, and others)

John Williams (Tanglewood)

Teaching & Theory/History Coordinator at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI) (2006-2010); duties

included:

Composition

teaching theory and music history classes for the vocal, piano, and harp programs

lecturing the young composers on how to write for the voice

Recent Premieres of compositions include:

Piano Sonata (2010) for piano solo at the BUTI faculty recital; premiered by the composer

Romantischism (2010) for four spoken men's voices; premiered by Roomful of Teeth

Old-Timey Dystopic Barbershops (only do crew cuts) (2010) for men's voices; premiered by the

men of the Trinity Wall Street Choir

Poem (2009) for mixed voices; premiered by Roomful of Teeth

Education Awards/Scholarships

One year of Graduate Work in Vocal Pedagogy at Recipient of the 2005 Harold Zulalian Scholarship for

Westminster Choir College Scholastic and Artistic Achievement

BA summa cum laude in Vocal Performance Boston Recipient of the 2006 Ellalou Dimmock Scholarship

University College of Fine Arts, 2006

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