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Jean Danton,
soprano, has appeared throughout the United States
performing repertoire from baroque to contemporary. She has been a
soloist with the Handel and Haydn Society under Christopher Hogwood
and John Finney, Oregon Bach Festival conducted by Helmuth Rilling,
Boston Baroque with Martin Pearlman and the Boston Pops Orchestra with
Keith Lockhart and Bruce Hangen. Her many festival appearances
include engagements at the Carmel Bach Festival, Florida's Winter Park
Bach Festival, Colorado's Breckenridge Music Festival, New York Bach
Aria Festival, and the Boston Early Music Festival. Ms. Danton made
her Carnegie Hall debut performing Handel's Messiah with the
Masterwork Chorus and her Lincoln Center debut at Avery Fisher Hall
with the National Chorale. She has been a soloist with several
symphonies including the Nashua Symphony Orchestra, Boston Civic
Orchestra, Indian Hill Symphony, and the North Carolina Symphony under
Gerhardt Zimmermann. Recent engagements include the Boston premiere of
C.P.E. Bach's St. Matthew Passion with Christopher Hogwood and
Handel's Alexander's Feast with the Baltimore Choral Arts Society
under Tom Hall. Ms. Danton enjoys an active career as a recitalist
and has sung New York recitals for the Trinity Church Concert Series
and the Twentieth Century Music Series at the New York Public Library
for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. Recent concerts include
the Longfellow House Gala with Keith Lockhart as pianist. Ms.
Danton's operatic performances include roles in Le nozze di Figaro
with Boston Baroque, Gianni Schicchi with the Greater
Buffalo Opera Company and Monteverdi's Orfeo with Andrew Parrott
at the Boston Early Music Festival. Her stage roles include Polly in
Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera under Craig Smith at the American
Repertory Theatre, Miss Silverpeal in Mozart's The Impresario,
Polly in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, and Quiteria in the
U.S. premiere of Telemann's Don Quixote with the Boston Classical
Orchestra under Harry Ellis Dickson. Ms. Danton has several solo
recordings with Albany Records and her newest recording of Haydn songs
with fortepianist Igor Kipnis, 'The Spirit's Song', will be released
this fall on Newport Classic, Ltd. She can also be heard on PBS and
Lifetime documentaries, most recently in American Experience: Stephen
Foster.
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