James Chi-shin Liu

Baritone

Performer's Resume

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Biography:

Baritone James Liu is a physician with varied musical interests. He has announced and produced classical music programming at WHRB. He has sung in many choruses, currently the Cantata Singers, Cappella Clausura, and the Choir of First Church Boston whose services can be heard every Sunday on WERS. He has sung solos in the St. Matthew Passion, Judas Maccabeus, Les Noces, Howells's Requiem, Carmina burana, and Messiah. His art song repertoire includes Die schöne Müllerin, Winterreise, Dichterliebe, Histoires naturelles and Don Quichotte à Dulcinée. He has appeared with Indian Hill Music, Lowell House Opera, Harvard Early Music Society, Opera del West, Boston Opera Collaborative, and Opera Boston. Roles include The Magic Flute (Second Man in Armour), The Marriage of Figaro (Antonio, Almaviva), Verdi's Otello (Montano) and Falstaff (Pistola), La cambiale di matrimonio (Norton), Carmen (Zuniga cover), L'elisir d'amore (Belcore cover), and John Eccles's Semele (Jupiter). He is a voice student of Frank Kelley.

Upcoming:

Menotti Amelia Goes to the Ball The Chief of Police Opera del West February 2012

Opera:
Verdi Falstaff Pistola Boston Opera Collaborative July 2011
Beethoven Fidelio Ensemble Opera Boston October 2010
Donizetti L'elisir d'amore Belcore (cover); Ensemble Opera del West July 2010
Mozart Le nozze di Figaro Antonio Boston Opera Collaborative July 2010
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:

Beethoven Mass in C Bass soloist Belmont Open Sings October 2011
Fauré Requiem in d Baritone soloist Masterworks Chorale Summer Sings July 2011
J.S. Bach Mass in b Bass (one singer per part) Freisinger Chamber Orchestra March 2011
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:

Schumann: Liederkreis von H. Heine, Op. 24; original 20-song version of Dichterliebe January 2011
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:

Current Groups

Past Groups

Spoken Word:

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)
  • La Jolla Music Society, La Jolla, CA, August 2010 (Texts and translations for Schumann's Dichterliebe cycle used for a recital in the SummerFest 2010 recital series)
  • Doudna Fine Arts Center at Eastern Illinois University, March 2011 (Program notes for Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin cycle used for a recital by Matthew Polenzani and Julius Drake)
  • Emmanuel Music, Boston MA, February 2012 (Texts and translations for Schumann's Dichterliebe cycle used for a recital performance by Frank Kelley and Russell Sherman)
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    Contact:

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

    Last updated: January 30, 2012
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