JONATHON HAMPTON

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Caption:
Tenor soloist Jonathon Hampton sings an American praise song accompanied by the Pacific Boychoir in their opening performance. Cue/Nicky Dorrington

Quotes:
Some vibrant singing of American Spirituals turned the recital by the Pacific Boychoir from a competently produced concert into a really worthwhile choral performance.

Inspired gospel-styled singing from choir and soloist in Wade in the Water, and an evocatively shaped I’ve been in the Storm so Long, showed the measure of this choir’s excellence.

...in the following item, City Called Heaven, they delivered a passionate performance of character and verve. Here the young soloist’s perfectly inflected bended tones caught the essence of the style with remarkable maturity. The programme ended with an intricate arrangement of Elijah Rock where their control over chromatic harmonies were intoned with perfect intonation and the polyphonic and rhythmic complexities were handled with aplomb.

RECENT PERFORMANCES

June 29 - July 11
European concert tour with the Pacific Boychoir
Washington, D.C.
St. Petersburg, Russia
Moscow, Russia
Vilnius, Lithuania
Kaunas, Lithuania
Tallinn, Estonia
Riga, Latvia

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June 2011
Fairy Queen by Henry Purcell (1692)
with Big Apple Baroque
Kaye Playhouse, Hunter College
bigapplebaroque.org