Baritone JEREMY J. MOORE, Artist-in-Residence, is very pleased to be returning to the Long Island Choral Society for the 2010-2011 Season. Mr. Moore was born and raised in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. He made his operatic debut in the title role of Amahl and the Night Visitors at age 10, and appeared in several leading roles in children’s operas with the Aspen Opera Theatre Center. He has performed extensively in solo recitals and ensemble concerts in his home state and throughout the United States. Recent opera engagements include staged productions of the title role in Don Giovanni with Delaware Valley Opera, The Merry Widow (Danilo) with Pineda Lyric Opera; the New York stage premier of Die Drei Pintos (Ambrosio) by Gustav Mahler, The Magic Flute (Papageno), Pagliacci (Silvio), and Carmen (Morales) with the Bronx Opera Company and La Boheme (Schaunard), Hansel & Gretel (the Father) and Amahl and the Night Visitors (Melchior) with Opera Company of the Highlands. Concert performances include Lakmé (Frederic) with the Connecticut Concert Opera, Rigoletto (Marullo) with Opera Company of the Highlands, L’elisir d’amore (Sgt. Belcore), and Il barbiere di Siviglia (Figaro) with the Northern Dutchess Symphony Orchestra, Act III of La Boheme (Marcello) in Merkin Concert Hall, Little Women (John Brooke) and Midsummer Night’s Dream (Demetrius) with the dell’Arte Opera Ensemble. Mr. Moore made his European debut singing La finta giardiniera (Nardo) and Die Zauberflöte (Papageno) in Salzburg, Austria in 2003. Recently he has sung the baritone solos in Orff’s Carmina Burana as a guest artist with the State University of New York college choirs and Carmina Burana and Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem with the Long Island Choral Society in 2008. For thirteen years he performed as a soloist with the Aspen Choral Society and Orchestra in Aspen, Colorado. Among the numerous performances with them he has been featured in three world premiers of oratorios written by Ray Vincent Adams with baritone material written specifically for him, in addition to thirteen annual presentations of Händel’s Messiah. Mr. Moore continues his studies with bass-baritone John Cheek of the Metropolitan Opera.