Michael Hewitt's Senior Recital

Michael Hewitt

The always entertaining and extremely talented barihunk Michael Hewitt is performance his graduate recital on Monday, May 4th at the University of Denver's Hamilton Recital Hall a 7:30 PM. The concert is free and open to the public.

He'll be accompanied at the piano by Mallory Bernstein in a program of love, love lost, and wandering. Hewitt will perform music by Franz Liszt, Maurice Ravel, Franz Schubert, Rodgers & Hammerstein II, Lerner & Loewe, Head, Merrill, Tosti, and Ralph Vaughan-Williams.

During his time at the Lamont School of Music, he performed Emile de Becque in "South Pacific", Rev. Olin Blitch in Carlisle Floyd’s “Susannah,” Jud Fry in “Oklahoma!,” and the title role in Mozart's Don Giovanni. He is an alumnus of the 2014 Houston Grand Opera Young Artist Vocal Academy and of Seagle Music Colony (where he was part of our group barihunks shoot).

On May 21 and 22, he'll sing the role of Mordecai in Oscar Sladek's "Far Beyond Rubies" at the Newman Center for the Performing Arts. The musical tells the story of Esther and Mordecai imagined as a great love story set against the turmoil and intrigue of Ancient Persia. On May 28th, he'll be the bass soloist in Beethoven's 9th Symphony with the Lamont Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.

Introducing Thomas "Tommy" Kittle

Thomas Kittle Photo: by Jessica Christie

Our latest reader submission is our favorite kind, as it came from a fellow singer. Meet Denver native Thomas "Tommy" Kittle, who is currently singing the role of Curly in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! at the Newman Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Denver. There are two performances remaining on October 31st and November 2nd.

Kittle is currently a masters degree student at the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music. He won first place in the 2013 Denver Lyric Opera Guild’s annual vocal competition, as well as the Young Artist Encouragement award at the 2013 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. This summer he was part of the young artist program at Opera in the Ozarks.

He will be returning to the Newman Center in the title role of Mozart's Don Giovanni from April 17 – 20, 2014. In the meantime, you can catch him performing Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with the Boulder Symphony Orchestra on December 7th and at a free recital at the Newman Center on February 1st. Visit their website for additional information.