Martin A. Hargrove
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Martin Hargrove has performed on stage and in concerts throughout the
U.S., Europe and Canada. His opera credits include Rigoletto
as Count Ceprano with the Pennsylvania Opera Theatre, Don
Giovanni as Commendatore with Minnesota Opera, and Masetto with
Opera Delaware, Balthazar in Amahl and the Night Visitors with
Pamiro Opera and on an extensive national tour directed by
Amahl... original cast member David Aiken, and as Collatinus
in Rape of Lucretia, Mr. Gobineau in The Medium, and
Il Commisario in Madamma Butterfly with the Florida Grand
Opera. He has also appeared with the Metropolitan Opera Guild, The
Princeton Opera Theatre, Opera Festival of New Jersey, and The Friends
of Mozart Festival. Martin was a first place winner in the NATS
regional voice competition and, in 1995, was selected as the
outstanding young artist of the year by the Florida Grand Opera, and
received the distinguished Grace Pavini Rice Award.
Educated at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, Mr. Hargrove has
had a great deal of experience in concert work. As a choral singer at
age seventeen, he performed Beethoven's 9th Symphony in Carnegie Hall
with Zubin Mehta. In the following years he would sing with many of the
worlds most notable conductors, including Mazur, Abbado, Giulini, Shaw,
Rostropovich, and Leonard Bernstein. His concert repertoire as a
soloist includes Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, the Faure
Requiem, Lord Nelson Mass by Haydn, Handels
Israel in Egypt and Messiah. He also performed as
soloist for Mozart's Requiem, Bach's Magnificat, and
Handel's Messiah with The Niles Symphony and conductor Scott
Arkenberg.
His Musical Theater credits include Director Hal Prince's
Showboat in Chicago and the 3rd National Tour, where he was
featured as a soloist in the very moving Misery's Comin'
Around. He has also appeared at The Auditorium in Chicago in
One Touch of Venus and Promises, Promises as part of
their Ovations Series. Other shows include Carousel, Ain't
Misbehavin', Side by Side by Sondheim and Little Shop
of Horrors, where he gave Voice to the monstrous plant, Audrey
2. Martin sang for the workshop of The Color Purple which
is now on Broadway, and the workshop and premier of Scott Ward's
The Making of David at Hedgerow Theatre.
Martin's reputation as a singing musician has endeared him with many
composers who have sought him out to premier and record their works. He
is featured on Pioneer Songs by Eric Houghton, and a recording
of Requiem by award winning composer Scott Ward. Martin is
also featured on the original cast recording of Robert Zuidam's opera
Freeze, which won a prize at the Münchner Biennale Festival,
was featured at the Staatstheater in Braunschweig, and recorded live in
Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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