MEET THE SOLOIST: Will Liverman

Baritone Will Liverman performs BRAHMS' REQUIEM
May 10, 2025 at 7:30PM

Background: Called “a voice for this historic moment” (Washington Post), GRAMMY Award-winning baritone Will Liverman is the recipient of the 2022 Beverly Sills Artist Award and the co-creator of The Factotum – “mic-drop fabulous good” (Opera News) – which premiered at the Lyric Opera Chicago in 2023.
         
Following summer 2024 appearances at the BBC Proms in Britten’s War Requiem, Sibelius’s The Origin of Fire and Scriabian's Prometheus, Poem of Fire led by Andris Nelsons at Tanglewood, and Aspen Music Festival’s Opera Benefit, Liverman reprised the iconic role of Papageno in the Metropolitan Opera’s holiday presentation of The Magic Flute, returned to Lyric Opera of Chicago as Marcello in La bohème, and joined Dutch National Opera for another season, this time as Ned Keene in Peter Grimes. He makes his house debut during the 2024/2025 season at San Francisco Opera also portraying Marcello in Puccini’s La bohème.
         
Concert engagements include Kaija Saariaho’s Sombre at Carnegie Hall with the International Contemporary Ensemble, Carmina Burana with the San Francisco Symphony, London Symphony Orchestra led by Sir Antonio Pappano, works by Burleigh, Vaughan Williams, and Still at The Concertgebouw, works by Schubert, Burleigh, and Larsen with the Oxford International Song Festival, Brahms’ Requiem with the Rhode Island Philharmonic, Shawn Okpebholo’s Two Black Churches and Orff’s Carmina Burana with Oakland Symphony, a song cycle of his own compositions at National Sawdust, New York Festival of Song at Kaufman Music Center, and String Theory at the Hunter.
         
Recording projects include Liverman’s Show Me The Way (Cedille Records, 2024), a celebration of American song, nominated for a GRAMMY Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album, Dreams of a New Day: Songs by Black Composers (Cedille Records, 2021), nominated for a GRAMMY Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album, The Dunbar/Moore Sessions - Volume I (Lexicon Classics, 2023), a collection of original art song composed, played, and sung by Liverman himself, and Whither Must I Wander (Odradek Records, 2020), named one of the  Chicago Tribune’s “best classical recordings of 2020.”
         
Liverman is an alumnus of the Ryan Opera Center at the Lyric Opera of Chicago and was a Glimmerglass Festival Young Artist. He holds degrees from The Juilliard School (M.M.) and Wheaton College in Illinois (B.M.).

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