Soprano
Jean Danton
has sung across the
United States
in oratorio, opera, recitals and musical theatre. She has been a soloist with the Handel and Haydn Society under and Christopher Hogwood and John Finney, Oregon Bach Festival with Helmuth Rilling, Boston Baroque with Martin Pearlman and the Boston Pops Orchestra with Keith Lockhart and Bruce Hangen. Her many festival appearances include 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 with the Masterwork Chorus and her
Lincoln
Center
debut at Avery Fisher Hall with the National Chorale, in both instances performing Handel's Messiah. Her numerous concert appearances include the Providence Singers with Julian Wachner, Nashua Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Worcester Symphony Orchestra, Indian Hill Symphony, Chatham Chorale, Rhode Island Civic Chorale, Brockton Symphony and the North Carolina Symphony under Gerhardt Zimmermann. She sang the NYC premiere of John Knowles Paine's Mass in D under Murray Forbes Somerville and the
Boston
premiere of C.P.E. Bach's St. Matthew Passion with Christopher Hogwood. She has been a featured soloist on Pops concerts with the North Shore Music Theatre, Boston Civic Orchestra and Boston Pops Orchestra.
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
. She has performed at the Rockport Chamber Music Festival,
Yale
Center
for British Art and the
Martha's Vineyard
Chamber Music Festival and the Longfellow House Gala with Keith Lockhart as pianist. She has premiered works by American composers Sharon Davis, Delvyn Case, Thomas Stumpf and William Moylan. She sang the American Premiere of Dichterliebe in Four Seasons with music by Schumann and new poetry by Elizabeth Kirschner and the World Premiere of Leonard Ciampa's Opus 179-Tre Canzone Carducciane (Three Carducci Songs).
Ms. Danton's operatic performances include roles with Boston Baroque, Greater Buffalo Opera, Cambridge Opera and the Boston Early Music Festival with Andrew Parrott. Other roles include Polly in Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera under Craig Smith at the American Repertory Theatre, Dido in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with William Thomas and the Cambridge Chorus and Quiteria in the
U.S.
premiere of Telemann's Don Quixote with the Boston Classical Orchestra under Harry Ellis Dickson. She was a soloist in the New England Light Opera's performances of "American Song" and American Classic's performances of "Music Box Revues" of Irving Berlin.
Ms. Danton has several solo recordings on Albany Records and her newest recording was released on Newport Classic featuring songs, trios and cantatas of Joseph Haydn with fortepianist Igor Kipnis. She will next record Dichterliebe in Four Seasons featuring music by Schumann with new poetry by Elizabeth Kirschner She can also be heard on the PBS documentaries The Nobel Legacy, Apollo 13-To the Edge and Back, American Experiences: Stephen Foster and Mary Magdalen for Lifetime.
Ms. Danton is on the voice faculty at
Boston
College
, New England Conservatory-Department of Continuing Education,
Eastern
Nazarene
College
and teaches Acting for Singers at the Longy School of Music. Ms. Danton is a member of Actor's Equity, AGMA and NATS.
"a stunning soprano with a real flair for Baroque singing style"
"Danton's melting I know that my redeemer liveth, sung with such ease and feeling, turned out to be the
high point
of the night." (Messiah)
THE
WORCESTER
TELEGRAM AND GAZETTE
"clear, light and stylishly stellar singing in her solo roles"
THE
MARTHA'S VINEYARD
TIMES
"powerful soprano, lovely intonation and phrasing"
"Ms. Danton presented them (songs) with compelling passion and conviction, her charming stage presence adding to her singing skills (Ned Rorem songs)
"With the clarity of an elegant wine-glass, soprano
Jean Danton
sang the devotional aria "Ich folge dir" with lyrical buoyancy and smooth phrasing." (
St. John
Passion)
"If soprano
Jean Danton
seemed outstanding it was because she added to the quality of the others a particularly direct communication of sense and emotion through unaffected, vigorous diction." (Purcell Songs)
"Soprano
Jean Danton
succeeded; her song in Act IV was the evening's vocal highpoint." (Fairy Queen)
"Unfaltering of pitch throughout, Danton here proved among that minority of sopranos who can reach for those high notes not only with ease and power, but with fullness of tone, as well." (American Music Recital)
THE HEIGHTS
"Soprano
Jean Danton
showed off her phenomenal skill. She sang with passion and force." |
