BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Acme Widgets\, Inc.//NONSGML ExportToCalendar//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Groupmuses near X-WR-NAME:Groupmuses near BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260610T212404Z UID:9ddcb098-df59-4fba-a6b5-a6240855ea1d DTSTART:20220206T033000Z DTEND:20220206T060000Z DESCRIPTION:Hosted by \nMusicians: Dashon Burton and Mollicone\n\nSan Franc isco Performances presents Dashon Burton for the third time. Mr. Burton is SF Performances’ current Vocal Artist-in-Residence. Robert Mollicone ap pears for the seventh time\; he first performed on the Salon Series in Oct ober 2012.\n\nThese tickets normally sell for $50 at the door\, but are a steal at $20 for the Groupmuse community and only $15 for Supermusers!\n\n More about the performers:\n\nBass-baritone **Dashon Burton** has establis hed a vibrant career appearing regularly throughout the United States and Europe in key elements of his repertoire—Bach’s St. John and St. Matth ew Passions and the B minor Mass\, Mendelssohn’s Elijah\, Beethoven 9\, the Brahms Requiem\, Handel’s Messiah\, and Mozart’s Requiem. He opene d the 2021–22 season with the Handel & Haydn Society of Boston led by Ma rin Alsop for Beethoven Symphony No. 9 which he repeats later in the seaso n with the Nashville Symphony and Giancarlo Guerrero. Throughout the seaso n he makes several notable orchestral debuts: the Chicago Symphony in Hand el’s Messiah led by Nicholas McGegan\, the Los Angeles Philharmonic with Michael Tilson Thomas for his Rückert Lieder\, the Pittsburgh Symphony f or the Dvořák Te Deum led by Manfred Honeck\, and the Verdi Requiem with the Seattle Symphony and Thomas Dausgaard.He continues his relationship w ith San Francisco Performances in appearances throughout the season and ma kes a debut with Celebrity Series of Boston in recital. Operatic engagemen ts in recent seasons have included Salome at the Salzburg Festival led by Franz Welser-Möst and Peter Sellars’s production of Claude Vivier’s K opernikus\, un ritual de mort at Paris’ Théâtre de la Ville as well as Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte in Dijon and Paris and Jupiter in Rameau’s Castor et Pollux with Les Talens Lyriques.\n\nDashon Burton won his secon d Grammy® in March of 2021\, for Best Classical\nSolo Vocal Album for Dam e Ethyl Smyth’s The Prison with The Experiential Orchestra on Chandos. A n original member of the groundbreaking vocal ensemble\, Roomful of Teeth\ , he won his first Grammy®\nfor their recording of Caroline Shaw’s Puli tzer-Prize winning Partita for 8 Voices. His other recordings include Song s and Struggles of Redemption: We Shall Overcome\, singled out by The New York Times as “profoundly moving…a beautiful and lovable disc”\; Pau l Moravec’s Sanctuary Road on\nNaxos\; Holocaust\, 1944 by Lori Laitman\ , and Caroline Shaw’s The Listeners with the Philharmonia Baroque Orches tra.\n\nDashon Burton received a Bachelor of Music from Oberlin College & Conservatory and a Master of Music at the Yale University. He is an Assist ant Professor of Voice at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music. \n\n**Robert Mollicone** is a member of the music staff of San Francisco Opera\, where he was recently named assistant to Music Director Nicola Lui sotti beginning Fall 2017\; he is also a frequent guest at such companies as Washington National Opera\, Seattle Opera\, Utah Opera\, The Dallas Ope ra\, and Opera San Jose. He has also prepared productions with and assiste d many of today’s leading conductors\, including Jesús López-Cobos\, D onald Runnicles\, Stephen Lord\, and Patrick Summers. These nearly 50 prod uctions since 2010 span the breadth of the repertoire\, including Ariadne auf Naxos\, Turandot\, La Cenerentola\, Les Troyens\, Der Ring des Nibelun gen\, La Finta Giardiniera\, and Show Boat.\n\nA commitment to the future of American opera led Mollicone to work on the 25th anniversary production of Nixon in China as well as original productions Moby-Dick\, Dolores Cla iborne\, and The Secret Garden. He also conducted performances of the Puli tzer Prize-winning opera Silent Night and of the world premiere of Weiser ’s Where Angels Fear to Tread at Opera San Jose. Mollicone served as hea d coach/accompanist for the premiere of Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally ’s Great Scott at The Dallas Opera. Equally at home on the concert stage \, Mr. Mollicone collaborates frequently with both rising stars and vetera n singers including Denyce Graves\, Andrew Stenson\, Joyce ElKhoury\, Bria n Jagde\, Simon Estes\, Ailyn Pérez\, Nicholas Phan\, and Jamie Barton. H e made his Carnegie Hall debut alongside soprano Melody Moore in May 2016. \n\nHe is a graduate of San Francisco Opera’s Adler Fellowship\, as wel l as of the Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program at Washington National Op era. He holds a M.Mus. from Boston University\, where he studied with Shie la Kibbe.\n\n[The full program notes for this event can be found here](htt ps://sfperformances.org/performances/2122/DashonBurton.html)\n\n[More on S F Performances Covid-19 Safety Policy](https://sfperformances.org/performa nces/2122/health-safety-factsheet.html) LOCATION:Western Addition\, SF SUMMARY:SF Performances welcomes Dashon Burton & Robert Mollicone to St. Ma rk's Lutheran Church URL:https://www.groupmuse.com/events/12189-sf-performances-welcomes-dashon- burton-robert-mollicone-to-st-mark-s-lutheran-church END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR