Performer's Resume for James C.S. Liu, M.D.

James Chi-shin Liu, M.D.

Baritone

Performer's Resume

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Personal:

Height: 5'9"; Weight: 195 lbs; Hair: Black; Eyes: Brown

Biography:

Baritone James Liu is a physician by day and singer by night. He has sung in choruses for over twenty years, most recently with the Cantata Singers. He has soloed in performances of the St. Matthew Passion, Judas Maccabeus, Les Noces and Howells's Requiem, and performed the baritone solos in Carmina burana and Messiah. His art song repertoire includes Die schöne Müllerin, Winterreise, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Dichterliebe, Histoires naturelles and Don Quichotte à Dulcinée. He has worked at WHRB as a classical music announcer and producer. He has appeared in Idomeneo (Opera Hub; Ensemble), Don Giovanni (Boston Opera Collaborative; Ensemble), The Magic Flute (Boston Opera Collaborative; Second Man in Armour), The Marriage of Figaro (Indian Hill Music; Count Almaviva), Otello (Lowell House Opera; Montano), La cambiale di matrimonio (Boston Opera Collaborative; Norton), Carmen (Boston Opera Collaborative; Zuniga cover, Ensemble), and John Eccles's Semele (Harvard Early Music Society; Jupiter). He is a voice student of Frank Kelley.

Opera:
Eccles	Semele	Jupiter	Harvard Early Music Society	October 2009
Bizet	Carmen	Zuniga (cover); Ensemble	Boston Opera Collaborative	July 2009
Rossini	La cambiale di matrimonio	Norton	Boston Opera Collaborative	April 2009
Hughes	Chincha Chancha Cooroo	The King	North Cambridge Family Opera	March 2009
Verdi	Otello	Montano; Herald; Ensemble	Lowell House Opera	March 2009
Mozart	The Marriage of Figaro	Almaviva	Indian Hill Music	November 2008
Mozart	The Magic Flute	Second Man in Armour; Ensemble	Boston Opera Collaborative	July 2008
Mozart	Don Giovanni	Ensemble	Boston Opera Collaborative	February 2008
Mozart	Idomeneo	Ensemble and Trojan Man	OperaHub	June 2007

Concert Solos:
Handel	Messiah	Bass soloist	Belmont Open Sings	December 2009
Orff	Carmina Burana	Baritone soloist	Paul Madore Chorale SummerSing	August 2009
J.S. Bach	St. Matthew Passion	Judas Iscariot; Pontifex II	Back Bay Chorale	March 2007
Howells	Requiem	I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes	Back Bay Chorale	March 2005
Handel	Judas Maccabeus	Eupolemus	Back Bay Chorale	May 2004
Stravinsky	Les Noces	Baritone duet	Back Bay Chorale	May 2003
J.S. Bach	St. Matthew Passion	Petrus; Pontifex II	Back Bay Chorale	April 2000

Art Song:
Chabrier: Volailleries; Ravel: Histoires naturelles; Poulenc: Le bestiaire (ou Cortège d'Orphée); Poulenc: The Story of Babar					October 2008
Schubert: Winterreise					August 2008
Schumann: Dichterliebe, Assorted Spanish Songs; Ravel: Don Quichotte à Dulcinée					February 2007
Schubert: Assorted Songs, excerpts from Winterreise; Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn					April 2006
Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin					May 2005

Choral Groups:

Cantata Singers, Boston MA, 2008 - present.
New World Chorale, Boston MA, 2006 - present.
Back Bay Chorale, Boston MA, 1995 - 96, 1999 - 2008. (Bass section leader, 2000 - 2008.)
Yale Camerata, New Haven CT, 1997 - 1998.
Yale Glee Club, New Haven CT, 1996 - 1997.
Rutgers Concert Choir, Piscataway NJ, 1991 - 1993.
Rutgers Collegium Musicum, Piscataway NJ, 1990 - 1991.
National Cathedral Men's Choir, Washington DC, Summer 1990.
Rutgers University Choir, Piscataway NJ, Spring 1990.
Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus, Cambridge MA 1985 - 1989, 1994 - 1995.

Spoken Word:

WHRB-FM, Cambridge MA, 1986 - 1990, 2000 - present.
Producer, announcer and studio controlman for classical music broadcasts, weekly special features and extended Orgy presentations. Significant productions as programmer and announcer include:
Historic Performances (weekly feature, Sunday evenings), September 1987 - April 1989

Sviatoslav Richter Orgy (18 hour broadcast), January 1988

Janos Starker Orgy (12 hour broadcast), May 1988

Ludwig van Beethoven Orgy (co-producer of comprehensive 105 hour survey), January 1989

Bruno Walter Orgy (36 hour broadcast), May 1989

Serge Koussevitzky Orgy (16 hour broadcast), May-June 2001

Erich Kleiber Orgy (12 hour broadcast), May 2003
Wilhelm Furtwängler Orgy (22 hour broadcast), May 2004
Hunan Medical University, Changsha, Hunan, China, 1998 - 1999
Recorded spoken text for audio tapes to accompany English textbooks for mainland Chinese market.

Essays about Classical Music and Texts and Translations:

Available on my Classical Music web page. Excerpts from my notes and translations have been used by the following organizations:

Back Bay Chorale, Boston MA (multiple concerts including J.S. Bach Cantata 196, Beethoven Missa Solemnis, Bruckner Motets, Fauré Requiem, Honegger Le Roi David, Monteverdi Adoramus te and Cantate Domino and Mass in four parts (1651), Mozart Mass in c and Ave verum corpus)

Combined concert by the Memorial Congregational Church and Fisk Memorial United Methodist Church choirs, Sudbury MA, May 2003 (notes and translations for the Mozart Ave verum corpus)

Stonewall Chorale, New York City, February 2006 (notes and translations for the Mozart Ave verum corpus)

University Choir, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, December 2006 (Narrator translations used for an English language performance of Honegger Le Roi David)

Macquarie University Singers, Sydney Australia, May 2008 (notes and translations for the Fauré Requiem)

Boston University Tanglewood Institute, Lenox MA, August 2008 (translations for Honegger Le Roi David)

Lifetime Learning Center, Seattle WA, Fall 2009 (Texts and translations used for a class about Schumann's Dichterliebe cycle)

United States Military Academy, West Point NY, December 2009 (Texts and translations for Schumann's Dichterliebe cycle used for a recital as part of a German Media class)

Contact:

Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates
Department of Internal Medicine
40 Holland Street
Somerville, MA 02144

James Chi-shin Liu, M.D.

Baritone