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2011-2012
Concert Season


Summer Sing
July 23, 2011

Festival of Voices
October 1, 2011

Carmina Burana

October 14 - 16, 2011
with The Florida Orchestra
 
Andrea Bocelli
December 4, 2011
St. Pete Times Forum

Christmas at the Pops!
December 9 - 11, 2011
with The Florida Orchestra

Celebrate Delius
January 6 - 8, 2012
with The Florida Orchestra
Performing and recording
Delius' Sea Drift and Appalachia: Variations on an Old Slave Song

The Peace Project
March 30 - 31, 2012

James K. Bass
Dr. James K. Bass
Music and Artistic Director

 

Jason Burke
Project Manager

Jason Burke is the Project Manager for the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay, and also functions as Festival Coordinator for the USF Festival of Voices. 

As a performer, Jason has appeared across the country in the national tour of The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber as a principal vocalist.  Other theatrical highlights include productions of Phantom, Moon Over Buffalo, Tommy, My Fair Lady, Damn Yankees, She Loves Me, The Music Man, Jesus Christ Superstar, I Shall Not Be Moved, the opera McTeague, Rose-Marie, and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue at the Kennedy Center. Additionally, Jason has performed with the New York City Opera in Acis & Galatea and I Capuletti e I Montecchi and the musical Sweeney Todd with the New York Philharmonic.  

In March 2010, Jason was a finalist in the American Traditions Vocal Competition in Savannah, GA. 

Jason has had the opportunity to sing with several orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the American Symphony Orchestra, The Cincinnati Pops, the Indianapolis Pops, the Detroit Pops, the Florida Orchestra and the Bloomington Pops.  Special concerts included the premiere of Fantasia 2000 at Carnegie Hall and Beethoven's Symphony No.9 on the eve of the millennium.  A frequent soloist throughout the Bay, in the past few seasons Jason has performed in The Messiah, Rutter's Mass for the Children, and Schubert's Mass in G.  

Recordings include: Sweeney Todd: LIVE, Die Liebe Der Danae (Telarc), Rose-Marie (cast-album), Puttin' On the Ritz (soloist), The Magical Music of Disney (additional vocal arrangements), The Music Man (Grammy-nominated), The Stephen Paulus Christmas Album & American Voices v1, v2, & v3 

Jason has recently joined the faculty of St. Petersburg College as their new Professor of Musical Theatre and was also faculty for their Summer Vocal Institute, leading the Opera workshop class.   

He is also active as a Music Director and has music directed two USF musicals (Hair, Rocky Horror Show). Additional music directing credits include: Sweeney Todd, Sugar Babies, Evita, H2$, Fiddler on the Roof, The King & I, I Shall Not Be Moved, along with several cabarets and revues. Jason is the Artistic Administrator for the Richard Zielinski Singers, a touring professional chorus based in Norman, OK. 

Jason holds an MM and a BS in Voice from Indiana University School of Music.

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