Watch Hans Tashjian perform Russian music live online

Hans Tashjian

Bass Hans Tashjian will be part of an evening of Russian songs on Wednesday, December 5th. The program will feature singers from the Yale opera program performing a wide array of Russian vocal music, from solo songs and arias to ensemble pieces.

The program will include works by such composers as Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Glinka, Shebalin, Pakhmutova and Rachmaninoff. Tashjian will sing Dmitry Kabalevsky's Don Quixote's Serenade.

The performance will be at Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall at 7:30 PM EST/4:30 PM PST or you can watch it live ONLINE.

Tashjian is an alumnus of the Manhattan School of Music and Carnegie Mellon University, where he received the Derdeyne Award in Voice. He has been a young artist at Chautauqua Opera, Sarasota Opera (where he was a recipient of the Scheininger-Reznick Scholarship), and the Caramoor Music Festival. 

He will perform Beethoven's 9th Symphony in the upcoming season for the Jackson Symphony Orchestra.

Introducing bass-barihunk Hans Tashjian

Hans Tashjian

No sooner did our post go up about the barihunk duo in Sarasota Opera's La bohème when we received a message about Hans Tashjian, a bass in their young artist program. He'll be part of the program for both the fall and winter and will be perform with the chorus for Verdi's Aida, Beethoven's Fidelio, and Verdi's La Battaglia di Legnano.

I'm currently in Sarasota for the fall season with Sarasota Opera.  I'll be returning as a young artist again this upcoming winter season.  I'll also be the bass soloist in the Bach Magnificat at The Cathedral of St John the Divine's Christmas Concert in NYC

Hans Tashjian

Hans Tashjian graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree from Carnegie Mellon University and a Masters from the Manhattan School of Music. While in school, he performed Baron Ochs in Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier, Plagio in the American premiere of I Due Figaro, Sarastro in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Truffaldin in Richard Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos, and Pooh-Bah in Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado. He has also appeared as Méphistophélès in Gounod's Faust with the New York Lyric Opera Theatre, Seneca in Monteverdi's L’Incoronazione di Poppea with dell’Arte Opera Ensemble, a soloist with the Bach Choir of Pittsburgh and performed with the Bach Music Festival of Canada.   

On December 12th, he'll appear as the bass soloist with the Cathedral Church of Saint John Devine for their Cathedral Christmas Concert. The concert will include Johann Sebastian Bach's Magnificat and carols by Benjamin Britten, John Rutter and Gregg Smith.

More information about the Sarasota Opera season is available online.

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