We are thrilled to welcome Justin T. Swain to join us in "Rediscovered Works: I, Too, Sing America - Part 2".
Columbus native, baritone Justin T. Swain serves as Adjunct Professor of Voice (Classical, Contemporary, Musical Theatre) and Lyric Diction at Ohio University in Athens, OH and has served as Opera Columbus’ Teaching Artist (2018-2020), in concert with the McConnell Chamber Orchestra (2021), the Lincoln Theatre (Arias and Ebony 2021), been featured in the Columbus Italian Festival (2012 & 2018), in concert with Harmony Project Columbus (2015), with the New Albany Symphony Orchestra (2016 & 2018), with Opera Project Columbus (Maestro Spinelloccio in Gianni Schicchi 2017), has given a number of public and private recitals, and has performed four world premiere works. Additionally, Swain has performed numerous times with Opera Columbus as a chorister, on the main stage (Davids and Ulysses in Vanqui, 2022), (Senator Joe McCarthy, Interrogator, Estonian Frank in Fellow Travelers 2022), (Baron Duophol in La Traviata 2016), as a member of their touring Education Outreach program for two seasons (2015 & 2017), Opera On The Edge (Marcello in La Bohème 2016), as a member of The Voice of Freedom touring performance group (2018-2020), and in Twisted 3, a collaboration with BalletMet and the Columbus Symphony Orchestra (Pinellino in Gianni Schicchi 2019). Swain has also appeared with the Denison University Wind Ensemble performing Armando Bayolo’s Last Breaths (2021). Recent engagements include a solo Cabaret of Gender Bent Musical Theatre selections in Athens, OH, and the premiere of Roy Swanson's Journey to the Birth of Jesus in Cincinnati, OH.
Swain will be singing the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, selections as well as some selections from Shirley Graham DuBois.
Join us for this amazing performance, Sunday, January 15, 3 P.M., at The Lincoln Theatre.