Baritone Jeffrey Fields has performed regularly throughout California as a concert soloist since moving to the Bay Area in 1999. In 1998, he was selected as an Adams Fellow at the Carmel Bach Festival and has had numerous solo appearances there since. He also sings regularly with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and American Bach Soloists. Recent and current engagements include the role of Manoa in Handel's Samson with Philharmonia Baroque, the role of Jesus in Bach's St. Matthew Passion at the Carmel Bach Festival, Frank Martin's Le vin herbÈ (King Marc) with San Francisco Concert Opera Orchestra, Acis and Galatea (Polyphemus) with Berkeley Opera, Bach's Magnificat in E-flat and Cantata 110 with Philharmonia Baroque, Bach's St. Matthew Passion with the Bach Society of St. Louis, the Requiems of Faure and Mozart in Napa, the title role in Mendelssohn's Elijah at the Music in the Mountains Festival, Mendelssohn's St. Paul in Berkeley, Haydn's Creation in Los Angeles and Carmel; Bach's B Minor Mass with the San Francisco Bach Choir; Handel's Messiah in Berkeley and Santa Cruz; and Mozart's C Minor Mass in Oakland and Ventura.
Mr. Fields did his voice study and taught voice and Singers' Diction at the University of Iowa with Albert Gammon and John van Cura, and was an artist fellow for three seasons at the Bach Aria Festival, Stony Brook, New York. He was a three-time winner of the NATS Central Region auditions. His wide repertoire includes Marcello in Puccini's La Boheme, Papageno in Mozart's Die Zauberflote, and King Herod in Massenet's Herodiade, as well as a broad spectrum of concert works, oratorios and art song. More information at: http://baritone.org/