Voice and Piano Recital at Trinity Parish

Joie au Printemps

A recital of music for voice and piano, including Don Quichotte à Dulcinée, a song cycle based on the life of Don Quixote by Maurice Ravel, and Songs of Travel, a song cycle by Ralph Vaughan Williams drawing from Robert Louis Stevenson's poetry, will be performed Saturday, May 18, 2024, 3:00 PM at Trinity Parish by baritone and Trinity staff singer Frank Walker, accompanied by Trinity's Music Director, Joshua T. Lawton. A free will offering will be taken to benefit the Centre Street Food Pantry, and a light reception will follow the performance.

Frank Walker, bass baritone and past graduate of Newton South High School, followed his love of music to study voice at the New England Conservatory and opera with John Moriarty at the Boston Conservatory. He trained diligently in performing many operatic parts, starring in the title role of Mozart's Don Giovanni with the Kaji Aso Studio at NEC's Jordan Hall, as Zurga in Bizet's Les pêcheurs de perles with the Charminade Opera Group in collaboration with the Boston Opera Company, and as Mercutio in Gounod's Romeo et Giuliette with the Longwood Opera Company. He has also frequently performed with the Greater Worcester Opera, including parts in Le Nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni. He is a former member of the Labyrinth Choir, having performed numerous innovative works with great flair, including P.D.Q. Bach's The Seasonings and Fauré's Requiem. Mr. Walker is a staff bass singer at Trinity Parish of Newton Centre, where you will occasionally hear him singing arias from Handel's Messiah and other sacred works.