Richard Kennedy has sung with the Boston Symphony, the American Chamber Orchestra in Washington, D.C., and the Utah, Charlotte, Richmond, Green Bay, La Crosse, and Wheeling symphonies, among others. He has appeared as soloist in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington with premier choral organizations, and with the Bach Choir of Pittsburgh, the Detroit Oratorio Society, the Oratorio Singers of Charlotte, and with the Los Angeles Master Chorale as aria soloist in Bach's St. Matthew Passion.
Additional oratorio performances include those as the Evangelist in Bach's St. John Passion in Los Angeles and in Providence, Rhode Island, and as tenor soloist in Mendelssohn's Elijah in North Carolina, Bach's Mass in B Minor with the Bach Choir of Pittsburgh, Mozart's Mass in C Minor with the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, and Handel's Messiah with the Rhode Island Civic Chorale and Orchestra, the Handel Oratorio Society in Rock Island, Illinois, the Rochester Oratorio Society in New York, and with the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra in Florida.
Internationally, he has given solo recitals in England, Germany, Austria, and Canada. In the United States, he has appeared as recitalist at Carnegie Recital Hall and the National Arts Club in New York City, at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C., at the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina, at Wynmoor Recital Hall in Florida, at the San Francisco Conservatory, at the San Francisco Community Music Center, and at many colleges and universities throughout the United States.
He has toured as vocal soloist with the Mantovani Orchestra performing in concerts from coast to coast in the United States, as well as in Canada, Japan, and Taiwan. The concerts of music from Viennese operetta and American musical theatre afforded performances in major performing halls, including the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and the Academy of Music in Philadelphia.
Mr. Kennedy has been a winner of the Franz Schubert Prize for Singers awarded in Austria, a second-place winner of the 1981 National Association of Teachers of Singing Artist Awards, an international finalist in the Opera Company of Philadelphia/Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition, and a finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council New England Regional Auditions.
Voice study was accomplished at Indiana University and at Boston University where he was a student of Phyllis Curtin. Advanced study was accomplished at the Franz Schubert Institute in Austria where he studied with Ernst Haefliger, Walter Berry, and Hans Hotter, and at the Jeunesses Musicales du Canada where he studied with Gérard Souzay and Dalton Baldwin. He has coached repertoire with Elly Ameling, Richard Miller, Martin Katz, Jörg Demus, Jürgen Glauß, John Wustman, Dennis Helmrich, Margo Garrett, Timothy Cheek, Kelly Hale, David Lutz, and Allen Rogers, and has studied privately with Carol Webber.
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