SCOTT JOINER tenor
Tenor, SCOTT JOINER, is rapidly gaining recognition for his unique combination of dynamic vocal artistry and versatile acting abilities. He has performed with the Opera Company of Brooklyn, Asheville Lyric Opera, American Opera Projects, Intermezzo Opera Festival, the Note d'Estate Festival at Teatro Magnani and has been heard with the Bryan Symphony Orchestra, Asheville Symphony, Asheville Chamber Players Orchestra, the Escher String Quartet, in concert at the Salone Barezzi in Busseto, Italy and in numerous recitals with pianist Riko Higuma of the Zodiac Trio. In 2009, Mr. Joiner was a Regional Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and was featured in concert at the Historic Tennessee Theatre where he returns in 2010 and 2011.In 2008, he was invited by Tony and Emmy Award-winning director/choreographer George Faison to perform under his direction at the Inaugural Gala of New York City's Faison Firehouse Theater. At the Intermezzo Opera Festival, Mr. Joiner sang the leading tenor role in Massenet's Cendrillon and the title role in Britten's Albert Herring under the batons of the Metropolitan Opera's J. David Jackson and Steven Crawford. Other roles he has performed include Nemorino in L'Elisir d'Amore, Rinuccio in Gianni Schicci, the title role in Handel's Xerses, Basilio and Don Curzio in Le Nozze di Figaro and Wilson Ford in Stephen Paulus' The Village Singer. He sang Pedrillo in Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail at Fidenza's Teatro Magnani in 2007.Joiner was a member of the Opera Studio at Manhattan School of Music, where he also appeared with the American Musical Theater Ensemble and TACTUS Contemporary Ensemble. In 2006 he sang the leading tenor role for the U.S. premier of the opera Selenal at The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University and was invited by American soprano, Catherine Malfitano, to be one of seven participants in The Malfitano Project, a four-part seminar on interpretation, acting, and body movement, culminating in a public Master Class in NYC. He studied voice at Interlochen Arts Academy from 1998 to 2001.A frequent recitalist, he has studied art song interpretation with Grammy-nominated pianist and pedagogue Warren Jones, given numerous premiers and collaborated with composers such as Richard Danielpour, Steven Schwartz, John Bucchino, Giampaolo Bracali, Larry Alan Smith and Marcus Paus. He studied acting at New York's Michael Howard Studios with Theatre Company of Boston founding member, Naomi Thornton.Beginning his musical training at an early age, Joiner sang boy-soprano roles in Tosca and Albert Herring with Opera Colorado under legendary Met director Nathaniel Merrill and international conductor Janos Acs. He also sang the role of Erste Knabe in Central City Opera's 1995 production of Mozart's Die Zauberflote under the baton of John Moriarty. Guided by conductor Duain Wolfe (Chicago Symphony Chorus director), he toured internationally as a member of the Colorado Children's Chorale, appearing on a CBS televised Christmas special with Kathie Lee Gifford and performing for former President Gerald Ford and Pope John-Paul II.
Tenor, SCOTT JOINER, is rapidly gaining recognition for his unique combination of dynamic vocal artistry and versatile acting abilities. He has performed with the Opera Company of Brooklyn, Asheville Lyric Opera, American Opera Projects, Intermezzo Opera Festival, the Note d'Estate Festival at Teatro Magnani and has been heard with the Bryan Symphony Orchestra, Asheville Symphony, Asheville Chamber Players Orchestra, the Escher String Quartet, in concert at the Salone Barezzi in Busseto, Italy and in numerous recitals with pianist Riko Higuma of the Zodiac Trio. In 2009, Mr. Joiner was a Regional Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and was featured in concert at the Historic Tennessee Theatre where he returns in 2010 and 2011.
In 2008, he was invited by Tony and Emmy Award-winning director/choreographer George Faison to perform under his direction at the Inaugural Gala of New York City's Faison Firehouse Theater. At the Intermezzo Opera Festival, Mr. Joiner sang the leading tenor role in Massenet's Cendrillon and the title role in Britten's Albert Herring under the batons of the Metropolitan Opera's J. David Jackson and Steven Crawford. Other roles he has performed include Nemorino in L'Elisir d'Amore, Rinuccio in Gianni Schicci, the title role in Handel's Xerses, Basilio and Don Curzio in Le Nozze di Figaro and Wilson Ford in Stephen Paulus' The Village Singer. He sang Pedrillo in Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail at Fidenza's Teatro Magnani in 2007.
Joiner was a member of the Opera Studio at Manhattan School of Music, where he also appeared with the American Musical Theater Ensemble and TACTUS Contemporary Ensemble. In 2006 he sang the leading tenor role for the U.S. premier of the opera Selenal at The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University and was invited by American soprano, Catherine Malfitano, to be one of seven participants in The Malfitano Project, a four-part seminar on interpretation, acting, and body movement, culminating in a public Master Class in NYC. He studied voice at Interlochen Arts Academy from 1998 to 2001.
A frequent recitalist, he has studied art song interpretation with Grammy-nominated pianist and pedagogue Warren Jones, given numerous premiers and collaborated with composers such as Richard Danielpour, Steven Schwartz, John Bucchino, Giampaolo Bracali, Larry Alan Smith and Marcus Paus. He studied acting at New York's Michael Howard Studios with Theatre Company of Boston founding member, Naomi Thornton.
Beginning his musical training at an early age, Joiner sang boy-soprano roles in Tosca and Albert Herring with Opera Colorado under legendary Met director Nathaniel Merrill and international conductor Janos Acs. He also sang the role of Erste Knabe in Central City Opera's 1995 production of Mozart's Die Zauberflote under the baton of John Moriarty. Guided by conductor Duain Wolfe (Chicago Symphony Chorus director), he toured internationally as a member of the Colorado Children's Chorale, appearing on a CBS televised Christmas special with Kathie Lee Gifford and performing for former President Gerald Ford and Pope John-Paul II.
