2016 Pan Mass Challenge

Dear friends,

On PMC weekend, August 6th and 7th, I will saddle up to ride the Pan-Mass Challenge (PMC) with 6,300 fellow cyclists to raise money for life-saving cancer research and treatment at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI). The PMC raises more money for charity than any other single event in the country - $500 million since 1980 and $45 million last year alone. Achievng this year's amazing $46 million goal will come from the efforts of thousands of riders and volunteers with one mission: to win the fight against cancer. We are PMC and Now We Ride

I've made a personal commitment to ride and raise $7,200. I hope you can help me achieve this significant goal. 100% of your donation will go to cancer research and treatment at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute through it's Jimmy Fund.

Many of you have asked about my father. He is doing great; his treatments at DFCI have gone well. My father-in-law also is having successful treatments at DFCI.

Please donate to my PMC ride with one of the following links:

Click here to make a $1,000 donation
Click here to make a $500 donation
Click here to make a $250 donation
Click here to make a $100 donation
Click here to make a $50 donation
Click here to make $25 donation
Click here to make a donation of any other amount

The PMC supports DAF Direct to designate PMC riders for a charitable gift Click here to support my ride with a gift from your Fidelity Donor Advised Fund

Thank you,
Andrew Garland

Your donation is tax deductible and 100% will go to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. If you prefer to write a check, please make it out to the PMC, The Jimmy Fund or Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and mail it to me directly at:

Andrew Garland
24 Clifton Drive
Kingston, MA 02364
US

If your employer has a matching gift program, ask your Human Resources department for a form, and follow the process for matches.

To learn more about the Pan-Mass Challenge, please visit www.pmc.org.

Spring 2016 Newsletter

Spring 2016 Newsletter

- Cover story in Classical Singer Magazine!
- World premieres
- Company debuts
- Boston Shows
- My first show with Michael Mayes in over 10 years
- Recitals
- Pan Mass Challenge

It's May and I am honored to be on the cover of Classical Singer Magazine!

I will be giving a master class at the Classical Singer convention in Boston. The theme is Preparing a New Work. If you know someone who would like to participate, send them our way!

I am still glowing from the magical production of The Magic Flute with Boston Baroque featuring a stellar cast including Nick Phan, Leah Partridge, Sarah Heaton, Gustav Andreassen, and So Young Park, a custom made glockenspiel and my new Papageno pipes made by Charlie Hind.

Next month I return to Dayton to revisit an old favorite and a world premiere. Dayton Opera has commissioned The Book Collector a prequel to Carmina Burana. Joining me in this double bill are Andrew Owens and Angella Mortellaro as well as conductor Neil Gittleman and director Gary Briggle.

For all of my South Shore friends, please come hear a recital in Kingston on June 3. The lovely and talented Estela Olevsky will join me for a program including Obradors, Cole Porter, Folk Song settings of Steven Mark Kohn and Schumann's Dichterliebe. This will kick off First Parish Kingston's new Main Street Main Stage concert series and raise funds for and preview our 300th anniversary.

This summer I will be in Charlottesville, VA reprising Guglielmo in Così fan Tutte with Ash Lawn Opera. Mireille Asselin and I will give a recital there on June 22. Other cast members include Cassandra Velasco, Melinda Whittington, and Joshua Dennis.

July 16 and 17 Estela and I will perform our recital at Mohawk Trail Concerts in Charlemont, MA.

August 6-7 is the 37th annual Pan Mass Challenge. I began my training in February in Greenville, SC which surprisingly is one of the best cities for riding. There are lots of hills, trails, suitable roads, courteous drivers and it is the hometown of Tour de France rider George Hincapie. A special thanks to the people of Greenville, Bob Jones University and Jonathan Pait, my bicycle concierge. Oh, and by the way, while there we put on Rossini's Cenerentola to three sold-out crowds of over 2,600.

September 1 NYFOS will reprise our Schubert / Beatles program in Moab, UT.

In the Fall I return to Boston Lyric Opera for their new production of Carmen. I encourage you to read their season announcement; a lot of exciting events and changes are taking place this year. In this production I will be reunited with fellow gingers Jennifer Johnson Cano and Roger Honeywell and will sing my first show with Michael Mayes in over ten years.

Early December I return to Boston Baroque for their annual Messiah. It is a tremendous experience. I wrote about them on this blog five years ago. After forty years their playing remains fresh and exhilarating.

And then right before Christmas I rejoin James Kim and the Colorado Bach Ensemble for their Messiah. I am proud of this organization. They started from scratch four years ago and are now giving masterful performances of Bach, Handel, and other greats in four cities.

In March of next year I will make my Minnesota Opera debut in the world premiere of William Bolcom and Mark Campbell's Dinner at Eight. Cast includes Laura Claycomb, Stephen Powell, Brenda Harris, Craig Irvin, Susannah Biller, Adriana Zabala and Richard Troxell with conductor David Agler and director Tomer Zvulun.

In April I will be participating in the American Pianist Award competition. Not as a contestant, but as a recitalist (though I did make my New York piano debut in December.*) I will have the privilege of performing a recital with competition finalists and with a brilliant artist, soprano Jessica Rivera.

May 4-7, 2017 is the premiere of Requiem by my good friend Gabriela Lena Frank with Spanish text by pulitzer prize winning author Nilo Cruz. I will be singing again with Jessica Rivera. This will be my Houston Symphony debut.

More announcements to come soon. Thank you for reading.

* Barely.

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Tomorrow we ride

Dear friends,

This coming weekend I will saddle up to ride the Pan-Mass Challenge (PMC) with 6,000 fellow cyclists to raise money for life-saving cancer research and treatment at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI). Today I am asking for your support ... tomorrow we ride.

The PMC raises more money for charity than any other single event in the country - $455 million since 1980 and $41 million last year alone. This year's goal is $45 million! This amazing gift is possible because a lot of people ride and care about a cure.

I've made a personal commitment to ride and raise $7,200. I hope you can help me achieve this significant goal. 100% of your donation will go to cancer research and treatment at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute through it's Jimmy Fund.

This year my mission is especially personal as my father has been undergoing treatment at Dana-Farber.

Please donate to my PMC ride with one of the following links:

Click here to make a $1,000 donation
Click here to make a $500 donation
Click here to make a $250 donation
Click here to make a $100 donation
Click here to make a $50 donation
Click here to make $25 donation
Click here to make a donation of any other amount

The PMC supports DAF Direct to designate PMC riders for a charitable gift Click here to support my ride with a gift from your Fidelity Donor Advised Fund

Thank you,
Andrew Garland

Your donation is tax deductible and 100% will go to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. If you prefer to write a check, please make it out to the PMC, The Jimmy Fund or Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and mail it to me directly at:

Andrew Garland
24 Clifton Drive
Kingston, MA 02364
US

If your employer has a matching gift program, ask your Human Resources department for a form, and follow the process for matches.

To learn more about the Pan-Mass Challenge, please visit www.pmc.org.

Spring 2015 Newsletter

Greetings from Seattle,

This weekend we close Ariadne auf Naxos here at Seattle Opera.  It is a great privilege to make my role debut with the likes of Kate Lindsey, Sarah Coburn and Maestro Lawrence Renes. 

Seattle is the first long trip away from home since August. This season has been an ideal combination of quality work and time at home. Highlights from this season include a recital with Warren Jones at my Alma Mater, UMass Amherst and again at Swarthmore College, plus recitals in Cincinnati and at the Longy School of Music, Messiahs with several orchestras including the Colorado Bach Ensemble, New Year's Day with Boston Baroque, a Verdi opera with professional-quality Boston Youth Symphony, the St. John Passion with Boston Baroque and the great John Mark Ainsley, a masterclass at the New England Conservatory and a Schubertiade at the South Shore Conservatory complete with Austrian desserts.

Donna and I will perform a special program for the Casement Fund in Brooklyn featuring song cycles by Lee Hoiby / Walt Whitman, Stephen Paulus / Ted Kooser and America 1968 by Tom Cipullo and Robert Hayden. May 21 at the South Oxford Space in Brooklyn. May 30 I brush up on my Russian to join Chorus Pro Musica and the BoSoma Dance Company for Stravinsky's Les Noces.

In the Summer I will return to the Duxbury music festival in a program of songs by Gene Sheer, Richard Pearson-Thomas, Ricky Ian Gordon and others.

In the fall I will be at home again to sing La Bohème with Boston Lyric Opera in a terrific cast including Kelly Kaduce, James Maddalena, Jesus Garcia and Jonathan Beyer.   October 2-11. In December I get to participate in one of the most fascinating projects yet: Schubert and The Beatles with New York Festival of Song. Dates and venues TBA. December 19-20 I make my debut with the Colorado Symphony in their Messiah.

March I reprise one of my favorite roles: Dandini in La Cenerentola, this time at Bob Jones University where I appeared as Rossini's Figaro in 2008. Not widely known for it's opera program, Bob Jones has a surprisingly good technical theater department and a large, appreciative audience.

April I get to sing in The Magic Flute with Boston Baroque in a cast including Mary Wilson, Nicholas Phan and Sara Heaton. Back by popular demand, the Schubertiade will have another performance on April 17. If you're good, there will be desserts.

Thank you for reading.

- Andy

American Portraits - Monday, November 9

Video - American Portraits - complete program

I'll let this speak for itself. Enjoy!