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SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ORATORIO SOCIETY | chorus
Founded in 1975, the Syracuse University Oratorio Society is a mixed vocal ensemble comprised of Syracuse University students and community members that regularly collaborates with Symphoria, Central New York’s professional orchestra, to perform choral-orchestral masterworks. The Oratorio Society has been directed by John Warren, associate professor of music and director ...
Founded in 1975, the Syracuse University Oratorio Society is a mixed vocal ensemble comprised of Syracuse University students and community members that regularly collaborates with Symphoria, Central New York’s professional orchestra, to perform choral-orchestral masterworks. The Oratorio Society has been directed by John Warren, associate professor of music and director of choral activities, since 2011.
JOHN WARREN | conductor
John F. Warren is Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Syracuse University, where he conducts choirs, and teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses in conducting, choral literature, and rehearsal techniques.
During his fifteen-year tenure, Syracuse choirs have performed at two state and three Eastern Region ...
During his fifteen-year tenure, Syracuse choirs have performed at two state and three Eastern Region ...
John F. Warren is Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Syracuse University, where he conducts choirs, and teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses in conducting, choral literature, and rehearsal techniques.
During his fifteen-year tenure, Syracuse choirs have performed at two state and three Eastern Region American Choral Director Association Conferences, including Rochester, New York in 2020, and toured throughout the Northeast United States and Canada, as well as Europe and South America. In 2017, the Syracuse University Singers performed for the National Conference of the National Collegiate Choral Organization in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In 2015, Singers won the Grand Prix at the Florilegé Vocal de Tours in France, which entitled them to compete in Varna, Bulgaria in May 2016 as a finalist in the European Grand Prix for Choral Singing. Dr. Warren travelled back to Varna to judge the 2017 International Choir Competition. The choir’s first album, Mysteries and Wonders is available on ITunes and Amazon.com. Dr. Warren is a regular guest conductor with Symphoria, the professional orchestra of Syracuse, New York, having most recently conducted a program of music by J. S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, and Mahler.
He was the NYACDA Choral Director of the Year in 2016 and is a 2011 recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Award from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. Prior to coming to Syracuse, Dr. Warren was the Director of Choral Activities at Erskine College in South Carolina, where he was awarded the Younts Excellence in Teaching Award in 2005.
Dr. Warren serves ACDA on the Standing Committee on International Activities, and is NYACDA Vice President. Dr. Warren has lectured, adjudicated and conducted festival choirs throughout the Eastern United States, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cuba and France, and has published research in the Choral Journal and the International Choral Bulletin.
During his fifteen-year tenure, Syracuse choirs have performed at two state and three Eastern Region American Choral Director Association Conferences, including Rochester, New York in 2020, and toured throughout the Northeast United States and Canada, as well as Europe and South America. In 2017, the Syracuse University Singers performed for the National Conference of the National Collegiate Choral Organization in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In 2015, Singers won the Grand Prix at the Florilegé Vocal de Tours in France, which entitled them to compete in Varna, Bulgaria in May 2016 as a finalist in the European Grand Prix for Choral Singing. Dr. Warren travelled back to Varna to judge the 2017 International Choir Competition. The choir’s first album, Mysteries and Wonders is available on ITunes and Amazon.com. Dr. Warren is a regular guest conductor with Symphoria, the professional orchestra of Syracuse, New York, having most recently conducted a program of music by J. S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, and Mahler.
He was the NYACDA Choral Director of the Year in 2016 and is a 2011 recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Award from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. Prior to coming to Syracuse, Dr. Warren was the Director of Choral Activities at Erskine College in South Carolina, where he was awarded the Younts Excellence in Teaching Award in 2005.
Dr. Warren serves ACDA on the Standing Committee on International Activities, and is NYACDA Vice President. Dr. Warren has lectured, adjudicated and conducted festival choirs throughout the Eastern United States, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cuba and France, and has published research in the Choral Journal and the International Choral Bulletin.
AMY JUSTMAN | soprano
Dubbed the “leading lady of crossover” by Classical Singer magazine, Amy Justman's career has spanned musical theater, classical music, jazz and beyond. Recent highlights include her 6th Broadway company, covering and performing for both Renée Fleming and Jessie Mueller in the revival of Carousel, Handel's Messiah with Musica Sacra ...
Dubbed the “leading lady of crossover” by Classical Singer magazine, Amy Justman's career has spanned musical theater, classical music, jazz and beyond. Recent highlights include her 6th Broadway company, covering and performing for both Renée Fleming and Jessie Mueller in the revival of Carousel, Handel's Messiah with Musica Sacra at Carnegie Hall, the PBS Great Performances’ broadcast of Bernstein’s Mass with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the world premiere of Unmasked: The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber at Paper Mill Playhouse.
Highlights of previous seasons include her principal debut with New York Philharmonic, singing in their Nightcap series and covering the Assistant in David Lang’s Prisoner of the State, making her debut with Syracuse Opera as Polly Peachum in Threepenny Opera, and performing the roles of Holly and Jade in The Stonewall Operas with American Opera Projects, for which she is currently part of the new opera Eat the Document.
Amy made her Broadway debut in the revival of Company, performing the role of Susan as well as playing piano as part of the actor‐orchestra. Other theatrical credits include In Transit and A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder on Broadway, covering the role of Carlotta in both the Broadway and the 25th Anniversary National Tour of Phantom of the Opera, both the Broadway and Pioneer Theatre companies of White Christmas, and Clara in the off-Broadway revival of Passion at Classic Stage Company. In 2022 she debuts Hadyn's Creation with the Winston-Salem Symphony.
Amy’s recent concert work includes Bach’s St. John Passion with Great Music in a Great Space, Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors with Steamboat Symphony Orchestra, Bach’s Coffee Cantata with Broadway Chamber Players, and A Thrill of Hope with the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra. She has been the soprano soloist for Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Brahms’ Liebeslieder Walzer and solo cover for Stravinsky’s Les Noces with New York City Ballet, Bach’s Mass in B Minor with Great Music in a Great Space, John Fitz Rogers’ Sehnen with American Modern Ensemble at National Sawdust, Mahler’s Symphony no. 4 with Broadway Chamber Players, and Peep Bo in The Mikado with Collegiate Chorale at Carnegie Hall.
She can be heard on the original revival cast recordings of Company and Carousel, the jazz recording Songs for Pickles, Tania León's Grammy-nominated Inura, and voice work for Hail, Caesar!, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Get Down and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. She has also appeared on-camera as Adult Nicole Fosse in FX’s Fosse/Verdon and on Apple TV’s Dickinson.
A former first prize winner of the Lotte Lenya Competition for the Kurt Weill Foundation, Amy received her MM from Manhattan School of Music and her BA from Yale University, where she is currently a voice teacher for the Shen Curriculum for Musical Theater.
Highlights of previous seasons include her principal debut with New York Philharmonic, singing in their Nightcap series and covering the Assistant in David Lang’s Prisoner of the State, making her debut with Syracuse Opera as Polly Peachum in Threepenny Opera, and performing the roles of Holly and Jade in The Stonewall Operas with American Opera Projects, for which she is currently part of the new opera Eat the Document.
Amy made her Broadway debut in the revival of Company, performing the role of Susan as well as playing piano as part of the actor‐orchestra. Other theatrical credits include In Transit and A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder on Broadway, covering the role of Carlotta in both the Broadway and the 25th Anniversary National Tour of Phantom of the Opera, both the Broadway and Pioneer Theatre companies of White Christmas, and Clara in the off-Broadway revival of Passion at Classic Stage Company. In 2022 she debuts Hadyn's Creation with the Winston-Salem Symphony.
Amy’s recent concert work includes Bach’s St. John Passion with Great Music in a Great Space, Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors with Steamboat Symphony Orchestra, Bach’s Coffee Cantata with Broadway Chamber Players, and A Thrill of Hope with the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra. She has been the soprano soloist for Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Brahms’ Liebeslieder Walzer and solo cover for Stravinsky’s Les Noces with New York City Ballet, Bach’s Mass in B Minor with Great Music in a Great Space, John Fitz Rogers’ Sehnen with American Modern Ensemble at National Sawdust, Mahler’s Symphony no. 4 with Broadway Chamber Players, and Peep Bo in The Mikado with Collegiate Chorale at Carnegie Hall.
She can be heard on the original revival cast recordings of Company and Carousel, the jazz recording Songs for Pickles, Tania León's Grammy-nominated Inura, and voice work for Hail, Caesar!, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Get Down and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. She has also appeared on-camera as Adult Nicole Fosse in FX’s Fosse/Verdon and on Apple TV’s Dickinson.
A former first prize winner of the Lotte Lenya Competition for the Kurt Weill Foundation, Amy received her MM from Manhattan School of Music and her BA from Yale University, where she is currently a voice teacher for the Shen Curriculum for Musical Theater.
SARAH COIT | alto
In the 2019-20 season, Sarah performed Mercédès in Carmen with Opera Tampa. Covering Daniela Mack as Rosmira in Handel’s Partenope with San Francisco Opera, plus a concert engagement as the mezzo soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the New West Symphony were canceled due to the ...
In the 2019-20 season, Sarah performed Mercédès in Carmen with Opera Tampa. Covering Daniela Mack as Rosmira in Handel’s Partenope with San Francisco Opera, plus a concert engagement as the mezzo soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the New West Symphony were canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In 2021, Sarah sings Addison Moore in the world premiere film of Clint Borzoni and John de los Santos’ The Copper Queen with Arizona Opera, Varvara in Katya Kabanova with West Edge Opera, Rosina in The Barber of Seville with Utah Opera, Messiah with American Bach Soloists, and in 2022 makes a house and role debut with San Diego Opera as Stephano in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette.
In 2018, Mezzo-soprano Sarah Coit was a Vocal Fellow with Ravinia's Steans Music Institute and made several important role and house debuts. Opera News praised her performance as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro with Michigan Opera Theatre: “Sarah Coit’s burnished mezzo-soprano gave her Cherubino a seductive tinge. Her pure, lovely “Voi che sapete” confirmed her bright future, made all the more likely by her undeniable aptitude for physical comedy.”
In the 2018-19 season, Sarah performed the role of Adonis in the world premiere of Dan Visconti and Cerise Jacobs' ‘Interactive video game opera’ PermaDeath with White Snake Projects in Boston. She makes her Seattle Opera debut as Mercédès in Carmen, performed at the Ravinia Festival as a soloist in Bernstein’s Songfest, joined West Edge Opera as Jenny Diver in The Threepenny Opera, sang her first Olga in Eugene Onegin with Livermore Valley Opera, sang the Vivaldi Gloria and Bach Magnificat with the Master Chorale of South Florida, and was heard in a special New Year’s Eve concert with American Bach Soloists joined by Hadleigh Adams.
Other roles in her repertoire include Nancy in Albert Herring, Sister Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking, the title role in Giulio Cesare, and the Waitress in the world premiere of Michael Ching’s Speed Dating Tonight.
In the summer of 2015, Sarah was a Gerdine Young Artist with Opera Theatre of St. Louis where she covered Richard in the American premiere of Handel’s Richard the Lionheart. She spent two years as a Resident Artist with Utah Opera, where she sang the Shepherd, White Cat, and Squirrel in L’Enfant et les sortilèges with the Utah Symphony and performed the roles of Mercédès in Carmen and Zerlina in Don Giovanni on the mainstage. As an apprentice artist at the Santa Fe Opera, she covered the roles of Erika in Barber's Vanessa, and Laurene Powell Jobs in the world premiere of Mason Bates' The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs. As Alisa in Lucia di Lammermoor, Classical Review remarked “…mezzo soprano Sarah Coit distinguished herself as Alisa, especially in the gorgeous sextet."
Sarah was a 2017 National Semi-finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and has received prizes from the George London Foundation and the Handel Aria Competition.
A native of Spring Hill, FL, Sarah holds degrees in Music Studio and Theatre Performance from the University of South Florida and a Masters degree from the University of Michigan.
In 2018, Mezzo-soprano Sarah Coit was a Vocal Fellow with Ravinia's Steans Music Institute and made several important role and house debuts. Opera News praised her performance as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro with Michigan Opera Theatre: “Sarah Coit’s burnished mezzo-soprano gave her Cherubino a seductive tinge. Her pure, lovely “Voi che sapete” confirmed her bright future, made all the more likely by her undeniable aptitude for physical comedy.”
In the 2018-19 season, Sarah performed the role of Adonis in the world premiere of Dan Visconti and Cerise Jacobs' ‘Interactive video game opera’ PermaDeath with White Snake Projects in Boston. She makes her Seattle Opera debut as Mercédès in Carmen, performed at the Ravinia Festival as a soloist in Bernstein’s Songfest, joined West Edge Opera as Jenny Diver in The Threepenny Opera, sang her first Olga in Eugene Onegin with Livermore Valley Opera, sang the Vivaldi Gloria and Bach Magnificat with the Master Chorale of South Florida, and was heard in a special New Year’s Eve concert with American Bach Soloists joined by Hadleigh Adams.
Other roles in her repertoire include Nancy in Albert Herring, Sister Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking, the title role in Giulio Cesare, and the Waitress in the world premiere of Michael Ching’s Speed Dating Tonight.
In the summer of 2015, Sarah was a Gerdine Young Artist with Opera Theatre of St. Louis where she covered Richard in the American premiere of Handel’s Richard the Lionheart. She spent two years as a Resident Artist with Utah Opera, where she sang the Shepherd, White Cat, and Squirrel in L’Enfant et les sortilèges with the Utah Symphony and performed the roles of Mercédès in Carmen and Zerlina in Don Giovanni on the mainstage. As an apprentice artist at the Santa Fe Opera, she covered the roles of Erika in Barber's Vanessa, and Laurene Powell Jobs in the world premiere of Mason Bates' The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs. As Alisa in Lucia di Lammermoor, Classical Review remarked “…mezzo soprano Sarah Coit distinguished herself as Alisa, especially in the gorgeous sextet."
Sarah was a 2017 National Semi-finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and has received prizes from the George London Foundation and the Handel Aria Competition.
A native of Spring Hill, FL, Sarah holds degrees in Music Studio and Theatre Performance from the University of South Florida and a Masters degree from the University of Michigan.
SPENCER HAMLIN | tenor
Spencer Hamlin has been praised by Opera News for his “scintillatingly smooth” and “dazzling Italianate voice.” Most recently, Hamlin returned to The Glimmerglass Festival where he sang the role of Monostatos in The Magic Flute, and Ruiz in Il Trovatore while covering Manrico. Previously, Hamlin performed the role of Don ...
Spencer Hamlin has been praised by Opera News for his “scintillatingly smooth” and “dazzling Italianate voice.” Most recently, Hamlin returned to The Glimmerglass Festival where he sang the role of Monostatos in The Magic Flute, and Ruiz in Il Trovatore while covering Manrico. Previously, Hamlin performed the role of Don José in a virtual production of Carmen with Brooklyn College Conservatory, and performed as a soloist in Playhouse on Park’s professionally filmed production of All is Calm. He was scheduled to perform the Duke of Norfolk in Elisabetta, regina d’Inghilterra with Odyssey Opera as well as Max in The Sound of Music and Gunther in Wagner’s Die Feen both with The Glimmerglass Festival in 2020, all of which were unfortunately cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hamlin participated in The Glimmerglass Festival in 2019 where he performed the role of Chekalinsky in The Queen of Spades and covered Bégearss in The Ghosts of Versailles. Before that, Hamlin was an Apprentice Artist with Sarasota Opera during their 2019 Winter Season where he sang the role of Il principe di Persia in Turandot. Hamlin appeared as Almaviva in New York City Opera’s Bryant Park series production of Il barbiere di Siviglia, after making his NYCO debut as Detective Thibodeau in the New York premiere of Tobias Picker’s Dolores Claiborne. Recent concert appearances include being the tenor soloist for Mozart’s Requiem and Bruckner’s Te Deum with the Waterbury Chorale as well as the tenor soloist for Theofanidis’ The Urgency of Love with the New Haven Chorale.
Hamlin received his master’s degree from the University of Connecticut where he studied under Dr. Constance Rock. After hearing Hamlin as Nemorino in UConn Opera Theater’s production of L’elisir d’amore, the Pulitzer Prize winning former Washington Post music critic Tim page wrote: “Spencer Hamlin has a sweetly lyrical high tenor voice, which he deploys with immaculate taste, and his acting is communicative and persuasive.” Other roles have included Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi, Alfred in Die Fledermaus, Tonio in La fille du régiment, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Judge Danforth in The Crucible, Ernesto in Don Pasquale, The Witch in Hansel and Gretel, the title role in Albert Herring, Henrik in A Little Night Music, and Laurie in Little Women.
Upcoming engagements include Mr. Angel in Impresario with Syracuse Opera, Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia with Opera Theater of Connecticut, and Second Nazarene in Salome with Tulsa Opera.
Hamlin has performed with The Glimmerglass Festival, Sarasota Opera, New York City Opera, Martina Arroyo’s Prelude to Performance series, Connecticut Lyric Opera, Opera Theater of Connecticut, Hartford Opera Theater, Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theater, Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Norwalk Symphony Orchestra, Waterbury Chorale, Pioneer Valley Symphony, Rhode Island College Symphony Orchestra, and
various ensembles at the University of Connecticut. Hamlin is also an Artist in Residence at the Cathedral of Saint Joseph in Hartford, CT.
Hamlin participated in The Glimmerglass Festival in 2019 where he performed the role of Chekalinsky in The Queen of Spades and covered Bégearss in The Ghosts of Versailles. Before that, Hamlin was an Apprentice Artist with Sarasota Opera during their 2019 Winter Season where he sang the role of Il principe di Persia in Turandot. Hamlin appeared as Almaviva in New York City Opera’s Bryant Park series production of Il barbiere di Siviglia, after making his NYCO debut as Detective Thibodeau in the New York premiere of Tobias Picker’s Dolores Claiborne. Recent concert appearances include being the tenor soloist for Mozart’s Requiem and Bruckner’s Te Deum with the Waterbury Chorale as well as the tenor soloist for Theofanidis’ The Urgency of Love with the New Haven Chorale.
Hamlin received his master’s degree from the University of Connecticut where he studied under Dr. Constance Rock. After hearing Hamlin as Nemorino in UConn Opera Theater’s production of L’elisir d’amore, the Pulitzer Prize winning former Washington Post music critic Tim page wrote: “Spencer Hamlin has a sweetly lyrical high tenor voice, which he deploys with immaculate taste, and his acting is communicative and persuasive.” Other roles have included Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi, Alfred in Die Fledermaus, Tonio in La fille du régiment, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Judge Danforth in The Crucible, Ernesto in Don Pasquale, The Witch in Hansel and Gretel, the title role in Albert Herring, Henrik in A Little Night Music, and Laurie in Little Women.
Upcoming engagements include Mr. Angel in Impresario with Syracuse Opera, Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia with Opera Theater of Connecticut, and Second Nazarene in Salome with Tulsa Opera.
Hamlin has performed with The Glimmerglass Festival, Sarasota Opera, New York City Opera, Martina Arroyo’s Prelude to Performance series, Connecticut Lyric Opera, Opera Theater of Connecticut, Hartford Opera Theater, Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theater, Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Norwalk Symphony Orchestra, Waterbury Chorale, Pioneer Valley Symphony, Rhode Island College Symphony Orchestra, and
various ensembles at the University of Connecticut. Hamlin is also an Artist in Residence at the Cathedral of Saint Joseph in Hartford, CT.
MARCUS DELOACH | bass
Marcus DeLoach has been hailed by Anthony Tommasini of the New York Times as "a fine baritone who puts words across with clarity and naturalness." A leading performer of contemporary classical vocal music today, he has established himself in the areas of opera, concert, and crossover. He received critical acclaim ...
Marcus DeLoach has been hailed by Anthony Tommasini of the New York Times as "a fine baritone who puts words across with clarity and naturalness." A leading performer of contemporary classical vocal music today, he has established himself in the areas of opera, concert, and crossover. He received critical acclaim in 2009 for his debut at Teatro Communale di Bolzano (Italy) as Jean in Philippe Boesmans’ Julie and was called “powerfully convincing” in his Opera Ireland (Dublin) debut as Joseph De Rocher in Dead Man Walking. That same year he made his debut at Seattle Opera as Schaunard in La bohème. Mr. DeLoach was a principal artist at the New York City Opera where he sang the roles of Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Satyr and Cithéron in Platée, Slim in Of Mice and Men, Don Alvaro in Il viaggio a Reims, Schaunard in La bohème, and many others. He has also performed with Bard Summerscape Festival, PROTOTYPE, Opera Philadelphia, Cincinnati Opera, Central City Opera, Kentucky Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Nashville Opera, Opera Santa Barbara, Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Utah Opera, Tulsa Opera, Wichita Grand Opera, American Opera Projects, The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, and many others.
In concert he has performed Sciarrone and the Jailor in Tosca with Lorin Maazel and Ein Knecht in Hindemith's Sancta Susanna with Riccardo Muti and the New York Philharmonic. Under the baton of conductor Kristjan Järvi Mr. DeLoach has appeared as Maximillian in Candide with the London Symphony Orchestra, Die Münchner Philharmoniker, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Musikfest Bremen.
In 1997, he was unanimously voted the first place winner of London's inaugural Wigmore Hall International Song Competition. In addition to concert appearances with many American symphonies and orchestras, he has also appeared regularly with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and The Marilyn Horne Foundation. With a deep commitment to the creation and promotion of modern opera Mr. DeLoach has created principal roles in the world premieres of Spears' Fellow Travelers, Mazzoli's Breaking the Waves, Wiesman's/Hoiby's Darkling, Beeferman's The Rat Land, Drattell's Lilith and Marina: A Captive Spirit, and Paul Schoenfield's The Merchant and the Pauper. Mr. DeLoach has also recorded several CDs of modern operatic works for Naxos, including Scott Wheeler’s The Construction of Boston and Scenes from Jewish Operas Vol. 2 with Gerard Schwartz and the Seattle Symphony. Adding to his credits as a crossover artist, he joined the acclaimed rock group Trans-Siberian Orchestra for their rock opera Christmas Eve and Other Stories in a tour which included Madison Square Garden and the Fleet Center, performing for an estimated audience of one quarter million.
Mr. DeLoach holds both Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School, and a Doctorate of Musical Arts from Rice University's Shepherd School of Music. He attended The Britten-Pears School, New England Conservatory, and The Music Academy of the West. The Opera Index, Albanese-Puccini, Rosa Ponselle, Liederkranz and George London Foundations, Young Concert Artists International, The National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, Metropolitan Opera National Council and The Gaddes Fund have all honored him for his outstanding achievements and artistry.
Recent engagements include a 2017 role debut as Figaro in Milhaud’s La Mére coupable with On Site Opera, Second Armored Man in Die Zauberflöte with Philadelphia Opera, Wolf-in-Skins, a collaboration of Philadelphia Dance Projects with American Opera Projects and Christopher Williams Dance, and Messiah with the Tucson Symphony. In 2018, he reprised his roles in Fellow Travelers with PROTOTYPE and also brought the role to the Chicago Lyric Opera. Marcus debuted as Sam in Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti plus Arias and Barcarolles with Boston Lyric Opera, sang Master Peter’s Puppet Show with The Knights at the Tilles Center and BAM’s Bric House, Eric Jacobsen conducting, and was the baritone soloist in Britten’s War Requiem with Tulsa Symphony. In 2019, Mr. DeLoach made company debuts with Arizona Opera in Fellow Travelers and a role and company debut as Don Giovanni with Syracuse Opera. He was also heard in a recital of Duparc songs with the Cincinnati Song Initiative. In 2021, He makes and role and company debut as David in L’Amico Fritz with Teatro Grattacielo, and in 2022, Mr. DeLoach premieres Listen to the Earth with the Sarasota Choral Artists.
In concert he has performed Sciarrone and the Jailor in Tosca with Lorin Maazel and Ein Knecht in Hindemith's Sancta Susanna with Riccardo Muti and the New York Philharmonic. Under the baton of conductor Kristjan Järvi Mr. DeLoach has appeared as Maximillian in Candide with the London Symphony Orchestra, Die Münchner Philharmoniker, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Musikfest Bremen.
In 1997, he was unanimously voted the first place winner of London's inaugural Wigmore Hall International Song Competition. In addition to concert appearances with many American symphonies and orchestras, he has also appeared regularly with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and The Marilyn Horne Foundation. With a deep commitment to the creation and promotion of modern opera Mr. DeLoach has created principal roles in the world premieres of Spears' Fellow Travelers, Mazzoli's Breaking the Waves, Wiesman's/Hoiby's Darkling, Beeferman's The Rat Land, Drattell's Lilith and Marina: A Captive Spirit, and Paul Schoenfield's The Merchant and the Pauper. Mr. DeLoach has also recorded several CDs of modern operatic works for Naxos, including Scott Wheeler’s The Construction of Boston and Scenes from Jewish Operas Vol. 2 with Gerard Schwartz and the Seattle Symphony. Adding to his credits as a crossover artist, he joined the acclaimed rock group Trans-Siberian Orchestra for their rock opera Christmas Eve and Other Stories in a tour which included Madison Square Garden and the Fleet Center, performing for an estimated audience of one quarter million.
Mr. DeLoach holds both Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School, and a Doctorate of Musical Arts from Rice University's Shepherd School of Music. He attended The Britten-Pears School, New England Conservatory, and The Music Academy of the West. The Opera Index, Albanese-Puccini, Rosa Ponselle, Liederkranz and George London Foundations, Young Concert Artists International, The National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, Metropolitan Opera National Council and The Gaddes Fund have all honored him for his outstanding achievements and artistry.
Recent engagements include a 2017 role debut as Figaro in Milhaud’s La Mére coupable with On Site Opera, Second Armored Man in Die Zauberflöte with Philadelphia Opera, Wolf-in-Skins, a collaboration of Philadelphia Dance Projects with American Opera Projects and Christopher Williams Dance, and Messiah with the Tucson Symphony. In 2018, he reprised his roles in Fellow Travelers with PROTOTYPE and also brought the role to the Chicago Lyric Opera. Marcus debuted as Sam in Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti plus Arias and Barcarolles with Boston Lyric Opera, sang Master Peter’s Puppet Show with The Knights at the Tilles Center and BAM’s Bric House, Eric Jacobsen conducting, and was the baritone soloist in Britten’s War Requiem with Tulsa Symphony. In 2019, Mr. DeLoach made company debuts with Arizona Opera in Fellow Travelers and a role and company debut as Don Giovanni with Syracuse Opera. He was also heard in a recital of Duparc songs with the Cincinnati Song Initiative. In 2021, He makes and role and company debut as David in L’Amico Fritz with Teatro Grattacielo, and in 2022, Mr. DeLoach premieres Listen to the Earth with the Sarasota Choral Artists.
