Jubilant Sykes (born 1960, Los Angeles, California) is an American baritone.[1]
Biography
editSykes was raised in Los Angeles, where he sang soprano as a boy.[1] He is African American. He has performed with Christopher Parkening and other artists,[2] and has appeared in such venues as the Metropolitan Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Carnegie Hall,[3] the Kennedy Center, London's Barbican Centre, the Apollo Theater, Hollywood Bowl, New Orleans Jazz Festival and hundreds of other major venues around the world.
Sykes performed the role of the Celebrant in the Grammy Award-nominated 2009 recording of Leonard Bernstein's Mass, with the Morgan State University Choir and Baltimore Symphony Orchestra under Marin Alsop, for Naxos Records.[4]
Discography
edit- Jubilant (Sony Music, 1998)
- Wait for Me (Sony, 2001)
- Jubilation (Angel Records, 2007)
- Jubilant Sykes Sings Copland and Other Spirituals (Ariola Records, 2010)
References
edit- ^ a b Norris, Michele, A Jubilant Voice: Classically Trained Singer Jubilant Sykes, in the Spotlight, National Public Radio, 16 December 2002
- ^ Epstein, Benjamin, "Singer's Not Jubilant in Name Alone", Los Angeles Times, 13 December 1996
- ^ Tommasini, Anthony, Music Review: The Bernstein Mass Project, New York Times 26 October 2008
- ^ [No authors listed] (2009). "Bernstein MASS". Naxos Records. Archived from the original on 2015-12-08. Retrieved 2011-06-13.
External links
edit- Interview with Jubilant Sykes, April 23, 1998
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