Declared as, "one of the very greatest bass voices of the century", Mr. Maynor has sung throughout the world in both opera houses and concert halls. He has sung roles with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, New York City Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Opera Orchestra of New York, Cinncinnati Opera, Teatro Amazonas de Opera in Brazil, Teatro Municipal de Santiago in Chile, Edmonton Opera, L'Opera de Montreal, Florida Grand Opera, Pittsburg Opera, Opera National du Rhin of France, Dallas Opera, Opera Company of Boston, The Spoleto Festival, Opera Pacific, The Saratov Opera in Russia, The Pacific Opera in Victoria, Scottish Opera, and at The Metropolitan Opera, among others. He has also sung with the symphony orchestras of Atlanta, Forth Worth,Quebec, New Orleans, Milwaukee, The Buffalo, Long Island Philharmonic, The New World Symphony,The American Symphony, Kalamazoo, Canton, Knoxville, Virginia, Eugene Symphony, Santa Fe Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, Mississippi, among others. Mr. Maynor has sung everywhere from Carnegie Hall to The Beijing Concert Hall in China. As a recitalist, Kevin Maynor has received praise throughout North America, South America. Europe, Australasia and Africa as well as Asia including India and China.
Fanfare magazine exclaimed. "This is a super voice, a voice to compare not only to Robeson but also to Alexander Kipnis, to Boris Christoff, even to Ezio Pinza-in other words to the very greatest bass voices of the century."(1998)
,Mr. Maynor has scored success in over 70 operatic roles in five different languages. The first apprentice artist from the West to study at the Bolshoi in Moscow, Mr. Maynor is a Fulbright Award winner and a recipient of the George London Award as well as a Richard Tucker Career Grant winner. Critics have praised his charismatic stage presence as well as his superb voice and powerful, resonant tone" and the jewel in his dark bass voice."
2025 Kevin Maynor heads to Off Broadway and The WP Theater Broadway and 76th st., presented by THE NEW FEDERAL THEATER in PAUL ROBESON REMEMBERED
In 2024, Kevin Maynor will sing the title role in BUMPY JOHNSON: Harlem on the libretto written and given to him by the author Amiri Baraka which will be set by award winning and celebrated composer composer Dwayne Fulton.
He will follow this with a repeat
performance of the Opera also by Dwayne Fulton,"Scott, Garner, Gray:
says Jimmy Baldwin".He will sing the role of Walter Scott. He will two
opers following these performance . Papa Doc, by Dorothy Rudd Moore,
and "The Matinsville Seven "again by Dwayne Fulton, this time singing
the role of Cogressman John Lewis. Kevin Maynor will sing the premiere
of Psalm 23 at Caldwell University, music by American Pianist Eric
Olsen.
THE Award winning basso began his 2023 season with Sassy by Richrd thompson followed by OTHELLO
(in the Title role) ALSO BY THOMPSON. We will hear Maynor in Recital in
Princeton for the Paul Robeson House and the celebration of the 125th
Anniversary of the birth of Robeson. Kevin Maynor's 2022 season
starts with Das
Rheingold by Richard Wagner in Der Ring des Nibelungen, singing the
role of Fafner in the green space of Rutgers University. Rheingold , he
has done all over the world including
Montreal, Chile and throughout the U.S. working at the Dallas, San
Francisco, and Seattle opera companies. Maynor will join the in person
collaboration between Trilogy and The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra on
Michael Raphael's Nat Turner singing the title role. He finishes
singing important roles in Wagner's Ring (Fafner, Hunding, Hagen) and ends the year with FANNIE LOU, I'M SICK AND TIRED FROM THE PEN OF CASSANDRA MEDLEY AND RICHARD THOMPSON.
Mr. Maynor also sang, in 2022, John Lewis in the opera "The Martinsville Seven" by Dwayne Fulton in Newark, NJ as well as the Archangel in Emmett Till by Michael Raphael with TAOC.
In 2021 Maynor snag the title role in Robeson by Adolphus Hailstork at UHCS Amphitheater with Trilogy aoc.
Basso, Kevin Maynor in 2020, did a Virtual Debut with the NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA , performing excerpts from Emmett Till by the late composer Michael Raphael, November 10 at 8pm. This collaboration with The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra And Trilogy an Opera Company, is a first.
Kevin Maynor started 2020 singing Hagen in Goetterdaemerrung by Richard Wagner in New Jersey. First, However he began the season with Othello by
Richard Thompson, written for the bass voice by the composer with
Desdemona responding as a Ballet dancer! The work premieres in
the beautiful Veterans Memorial Park with social distancing all the
way! Leslie B. Dunner conducted.
The 2019-2020 season started with Richard
Wagner's SIEGFRIED, with Mr. Maynor singing his first Wanderer in the
third of the Ring Cycle. The Bass, sang Ned in Treemonisha, with
Trilogy: aoc, and the title role in the revival of FREDERICK DOUGLASS
by Ulysees Kay in Essex County. He followed with Dwayne Fulton's Scott, Garner, Gray: says Jimmy Baldwin, The Messiah in New Jersey and Sassy
by Richard Thompson, the Sarah Vaughan story at NJPAC in Newark.
The wonderful work of Basso Kevin Maynor was once again heard to full effect in Garvey, by Michael Raphael, with Mr. Maynor singingt the title role. Kevin Maynor sang the role of Paul Robeson in Adolphus Hailstork's opera ROBESON also, during the 2018-2019 season in Newark, NJ. The award winning Bass sang and acted in WEB/Booker T. from the pen of noted playwright and screen writer Richard Wesley, with music from Julius Williams. Maynor sang in the U.S. Premiere of "Scott, Garner, Gray, says Jimmy Baldwin" at The New Jersey Performing Arts Center with Trilogy: an opera company, Newark's resident opera company.
The versatile Bass can be heard in TAOC's new and first DVD
production with screen star Danny Glover, The Bird that wants to Fly, by Michael Raphael, based on the book by Diane Kaufman.
Celebrated Basso, Kevin Maynor, in 2017-2018, performed Treemonisha
with The Mississippi Symphony and the same opera for Trilogy: AOC in
Newark, NJ. Along with a cameo performance in Malaga , Spain, the
Reprise of Nat Turner, by Michael Raphael, singing the title role, filled out the summer, soon follwed by Trent Johnson's, Kenyatta at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, in the fall . Mr. Maynor brought his acclaimed Hunding to Wagner's Die Walkuere to the Victoria Opera House in Newark, NJ during the winter.
Kevin Maynor's 2016- 2017 includes the U.S. Premiere of Joe Louis by Count Basie at the Jazz Institute of Rutgers University in New Jersey, followed by the World Premiere of Five
by Anthony Davis at The New Jersey Performing Arts Center for the 350th
Anniversary of Newark, New Jersey, with Trilogy: an opera
Company. He returned to David Geffen Hall or Avery Fisher Hall with The
National Chorale for the Messiah. Mr. Maynor sings Fasolt in Das Rheingold
at NJPAC, in the first ever Ring Production, by Richard Wagner in New Jersey. Mr. Maynor performed Glock with Opera Theater of Pittsburg in their Summer Fest in A GATHERING OF SONS,
by Dwayne Fulton.
In 2015 - 2016, Kevin Maynor appeared at The New
Jersey Performing Arts Center in the title role in the opera, Garvey by Michael Raphael. His season included "Homage to a King",
a new dramatic oratorio written for him and for French Horns and Trombones, by Julius
Williams at Aljira, a center for contemporary art. He Participated in a
new preview for a new Operatic work from Anthony Davis, "FIVE", on the Central Park Five. Maynor performed his acclaimed conceptual concert for voice and piano, Malcolm X: a commentary in
Essex County Weequahic Park. Mr. Maynor gave a recital and Master
class at Tennessee Tech, while enjoying a new operatic release by
Michael Raphael,"The Bird that wants to Fly" throughh NAXOS on Roven Records, carried by Audible.com with Danny Glover as the Narrator.
2014 - 2015, brought the basso to the Princeton
Performing Arts center to perform in Recital on September 21. Kevin
Maynor performed the United States Premiere of "Robeson" by Adolphus
Hailstork at The New Jersey Performing Arts Center. The Bass
created the lead bass role in the "The Bird that wants to fly" by
Michael Raphael based on the book of the same title by famed child
Psychiatrist, Dr. Diana Kaufman, to be performed in Patterson, New
Jersey. Maynor brought his work to the Museum of Modern Art in New
York City as a soloist in the Migration Rhapsody, a celebration of The
Migration Series of noted Painter Jacob Lawrence.
In 2013 - 2014, award winning
Basso Kevin Maynor created the title role in Robeson, by Adolphus
Hailstork in Newark, NJ. America's bass performed the bass solos
in the Verdi Requiem
with The Choral Arts Society in Washington, D.C. in Honor and Memory of
the late President John F. Kennedy at the Kennedy Center Concert
Hall. He performed a debut Recital with The New Jersey Performing
Arts Center, "Paul Robeson
Remembered", followed by excerpts from the opera Robeson.
Maynor sang a concert at New Jersey City University, "from The
Repertoire of Paul Robeson", with words from Robeson's grandaughter Susan Robeson.
He sang a recital of Mousorgsky, Brahms, and Schubert songs in
Montgomery, New York.
In 2012-2013,
American Bass Kevin Maynor once again joined The New York
City Opera singing the role of Ned in performances of Treemonisha by
Scott Joplin. He traveled to The Pacific Islands again
on a U.S. State Department Tour to the Fiji Islands. Maynor did repeat
Boito's Mefistofele with the Buffalo Philharmonic and Maestra Joann
Falletta. The Bass returned
to Adelphi University for a masterworks recital with conductor
Christopher Lyndon Gee. He was also heard, once again at the
Greene Space in
New York City
for excerpts from Ulysees Kay's Frederick Douglass, for The 150th
Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Kevin Maynor sang a
tribute to poet Langston Hughes
at The Greene Space for WQXR in New York City. He
debuted a new work for Sabisha Friedberg at the Issue Project Room in
Brooklyn
, New York based on the song "Grief" by William Grant Still. Recent seasons also included The
Four Serious Songs, by
Johannes Brahms and the Ruckert
Lieder of Gustav
Mahler, followed by the The
Songs and Dances of Death by Modeste
Mousorgsky in Long Island , New York. The Bass appeared in Nat Turner
by Michael Raphael, Frederick
Douglass by Dorothy Rudd Moore and
Treemonisha by Scott
Jpplin with Newark's Trilogy: An Opera Company.
Kevin Maynor performed five (5) recitals for Creative Arts
Healthcare at UMDNJ from December to April, performing Schubert,
Mahler, Still, Kaye, as well as art songs from young American composers
and arrangers.
Maynor's 2010-2011 season included
Franz Schubert's
Schwanengesang in New
York, with appearances in Texas, singing the bass
solos in the Rossini STABAT
MATER with the San Antonio Symphony
followed by Arigo Boito's MEFISTOFELE
, performing the Prologue scene
in Virginia Beach, Newport News, and Norfolk, Virginia with Maestra
Joann Falletta and the Virginia Symphony. Kevin Maynor returned to New
York's Avery Fisher
Hall for Balthazaar in Amahl, and the night visitors, with The Little
Orchestra Society. Mr. Maynor was recently named Cultural Envoy to the
Pacific Islands and Eastern Asia, as ordered by the United States
Congress. Mr. Maynor performed excerpts from Jerome Kern's "SHOWBOAT"
and Scott Joplin's "TREEMONISHA"
in Taiwan with the Kaohsiung Symphony
Orchestra. While in Taiwan, Maynor traveled to Taipei, Tainan, and New
Taipei for recitals with chorus, on American Historical figures.
The American Bass
performed King Mark in Richard Wagner's TRISTAN UND ISOLDE at The
Festival Amazonas de Opera in Manaus, Brazil. He will also record
Carlos Gomez's CONDOR. Other recent performances include Schubert's Die Winterreise in
NEW YORK and the role of NED in Scott Joplin's TREEMONISHA with Newark
New Jersey's Trilogy: aoc. The American bass performed an all english
program for Seton Hall University at THE SOUTH ORANGE PERFORMING ARTS
CENTER, with the great violinist Joshua Bell for the Prestigious S.Rose
Thering Endowment. Maynor continues recording, adding three new cd's
"ME AND VERDI", OLD MAN RIVER, and THE SPIRITUAL: AN UNDERGROUND
RAILROAD, as a Barnes and Noble artist.
Highlights of Mr. Maynor's past
seasons are a CARNEGIE HALL RECITAL appearance, "Honor the Voice", with
Jessye Norman, a nine state and 14 cities concert tour in America,
followed by the VERDI
REQUIEM and BRAHMS
REQUIEM
in Santa Fe with the
SANTA FE SYMPHONY AND ROANOKE SYMPHONY in VIRGINIA. In 2007 - 2008, Mr.
Maynor performed recitals in New York at Adelphi University and St.
Francis college.
He Traveled over seas to perform a United States State
Department Recital Tour in Europe, including Paris, Strasburg, Berlin,
Munich, and Nuremberg, Tuebingen, among other cities.
The celebrated basso performed the role of Grabeau in Anthony Davis' opera "AMISTAD" during the SPOLETO ,U.S.A. festival. Kevin Maynor, was once again with The Little Orchestra Society in Gian Carlo Menotti's "Amahl and The Night Visitor" at Avery Fisher Hall in New York City. In previous seasons, Kevin Maynor's performances included Anchorage Opera (Viva Verdi)[ Bass arias and duets from Don Carlo, Macbeth, Simon Boccanegra, and La Forza del Destino] , the WQXR broadcast for the MLK Jr. holiday, Opera Birmingham, and The Midland Symphony ,with recitals in Freeport, NY and Newark NJ. as well as a concert performance of Turandot singing the role of TIMUR with the New York City Opera and the Westfield Symphony. Recently ,Kevin Maynor joined soprano Jessye Norman in a fund raiser for the homeless in NYC with Partnership For The Homeless. Mr. Maynor was also the winner of an Audelco Award for excellence in theatre for his performance as Paul Robeson with the New Federal Theatre in NYC and Producer Woodie King Jr. In 2005-2006 Mr. Maynor sang the roles of Sarastro in Mozart's The Magic Flute and Sparafucile in Verdi's Rigoletto with The Des Moines Metro Opera. He performed in Recital at Winston Salem University, a concert at The Schomburg in New York City, Phillip Hayes Dean's one man show PAUL ROBESON, with The New Federal Theatre in New York City at the Henry Street Settlement Theatre, followed by the Beethoven Ninth in West Virginia with The Wheeling Symphony. Mr. Maynor then performed a Mozart concert at Avery Fisher Hall with The Little Orchestra Society, performing excerpts from Le Nozze di Figaro and Bastien und Bastienne of Mozart. He then performed the featured recital in the Lincoln Booth Theatre in Washington D.C. during The Here I stand Awards honoring DICK GREGORY.
During 2004-2005 Kevin Maynor performed Tom with Florida Grand Opera in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera, and sang three multi-media thematic concerts at the prestigious AUCKLAND FESTIVAL. Mr. Maynor's 2003 - 2004 season included performances at the Kravis Center of West Palm Beach. Florida, where he performed his thematic MULTIMEDIA recital, The Repertoire of Paul Robeson and the Verdi Requiem in Eugene Oregon with the Eugene Concert Choir and gave a recital at the University of Oregon with master classes. The American Bass sang at the Vivaldi Festival at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in New York. returned to Avery Fisher Hall with The Little Orchestra Society singing the role of Balthazaar in Menotti's Amahl and The Night Visitors and performed a Dvorak Centenial Concert for the Dvorak Society of New York. Kevin Maynor performed the World Premiere of new songs by Jack Beeson and the Pulitzer prize winner George Walker, at Smith College in North Hampton, Massachusetts. Mr. Maynor's engagements for the 2002-2003 season included performances of Samuel in Un Ballo in Maschera with the Pittsburgh Opera, Verdi's Requiem with the Canton Symphony Orchestra , the Prologue to Mephistopheles with the Virginia Symphony and Julius Rudel, King Balthazaar in Amahl and the Night Visitors with the Little Orchestra Society of New York at Avery Fisher Hall, Dumar's American Requiem with the Phoenix Symphony, and recitals in New York , New Jersey and for The U.S. State Department for the Kala Ghoda Festival in India. Mr. Maynor's engagements for the 2001-2002 season included performances as Joe in Showboat with Opera National du Rhin in Strasbourg,France,and as Sparafucile in Rigoletto with the Sacramento Opera, recitals in Chicago at Northwestern University, in Boston at The Afro-American History Museum,and Long Island ; and a special concert of spirituals with The New World Symphony . During July of 2001, he performed at the Grant Park Music Festival.
Mr. Maynor's 2000-2001 season included performances as Timur in Turandot with Minnesota Opera; as Sparafucile in Rigoletto with Knoxville Opera: as Hunding in Die Walkeure with Austin Lyric Opera; and as Zaccaria in Nabucco with Pacific Opera Victoria. During this season, Mr. Maynor also appeared in recital throughout the United States,and he hosted 17 different shows for the New York City PBS stations Metro Arts/ Thirteen/WNET. In May of 2000, he sang at The Supreme Court of the United States of America.
Most Recently, Mr. Maynor gave performances as Don Basilo in IL Barbiere di Siviglia with the New York City Opera, both Fafner in Das Rheingold and Colline in La Boheme with Dallas Opera, Daland in Der Fliegende Hollander with Sacramento Opera, Sparafucile in Rigoletto with Mississippi Opera, Shostakovich's Song of the Forest with the Kalamazoo Symphony, a centenary tribute to Paul Robeson in Ocean Grove, New Jersey, and appeared in recital in Beijing , China sponsored by Arts America. Highlights of his 1997-98 season include Pimen in Boris Goudonov with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the cook in the world premiere of Anthony Davis Amistad with Lyric Opera of Chicago, and a series of recitals and master classes in China sponsored by the Rockefeller foundation and the Pew Charitable Trust Foundation. In the summer of 1997 he had great success in South Africa with The Biko Project a recital program he designed and performed at both the Grahamstown Festival and the Market Theatre in Johannesburg. In the 1999-2000 season he appeared at the Sobinov Festival in Russia where he sang the King in Aida and did a tribute recital to Paul Robeson. Mr. Maynor sang in Akhnaten with Boston Lyric Opera, performed the King in Aida with Austin Lyric Opera ,the title roles in Boris Godunov and Mefistofele with the Erie Philharmonic, Fafner in Das Rheingold with L'Opera de Montreal ; the Berlioz Romeo et Juliette with the Flint Symphony , Raimondo in Lucia di Lammemoor with Mobile Opera and returned to China to sing a series of Recitals.
Mr. Maynor has sung Hunding in Die Walkeure with both Scottish Opera and Opera Pacific,Fafner in Das Rheingold with the Opera del Teatro Municipal in Santiago, Chile, and has sung Sarastro in Die Zauberflote in many theaters. Mr. Maynor made his New York City Opera debut in Philip Glass' Akhnaten, and later appeared at the
Metropolitan Opera, where he sang the roles of both the Armchair and the Tree in Ravel's L 'Enfant et Les Sortileges with choreography and dance by the Netherlands Dance Theater. His impressive list of opera credits also include the San Francisco, Boston, Seattle, and Santa Fe Operas. His festival credits include Wolf Trap, Spoleto, the American Opera Festival in Cincinnati and the Music Under the Stars Festival in Milwaukee. He performed in the world premieres of Ulyssess Kay's Frederick Douglass with New Jersey State Opera (in which he sang the title role) and Anthony Davis' X with the America Music Theater Festival in Philadelphia.
His career includes work with The Santa Fe
opera, Virginia Opera, Opera Carolina, Opera company of Boston, Orlando
Opera, Connectict Opera, Connecticut Grand Opera, Palazzo di Musica in
Spain, Edmonton Opera, Mississippi Opera, Dallas Opera, Chicago Music
Theater, Long Beach Opera, Cinncinatti Opera, Art Park Opera, The State
Theater in Pretoria South Africa, and many more.
Mr. Maynor is also a gifted recitalist and has performed a wide variety of programs throughout North America as well as France, England and Spain. He has appeared as soloist with orchestras across the country including the Buffalo Philharmonic, Fort Worth Symphony, New Orleans Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony , the Long Island Philharmonic as well as the Quebec Symphonie in Canada, The Santa Fe Symphony, The Fort Worth Symphony, Chattanooga Symphony, The Kalamazoo Symphony, The Texas Chamber Orchestra, The Canton Symphony, The Virginia Symphony, and The San Antonio Symphony. He has worked with such conductors as Dennis Russell Davies, Sarah Caldwell, Joann Falletta, Roberto Manfredini, Christopher Keene, Klaus Donath, Gabor Otvos, Ferdinand Leitner, John Maucieri, Alberto Veronese, Richard Woitach, Eve Queler, Robert Shaw, Leslie P. Dunner, Julius Williams and Julius Rudel. Stage directors include Patrice Courier, Moshe Leiser, Bliss Hebert, Colin Graham, Mary Zimmerman, Shauneille Perry, Trazana Beverly, Gian Carlo Menotti, Roberto Oswald, Mark Lamos, Rhoda Levine, Nathaniel Merrill, Bodo Igesz, George C. Wolfe , Mark Clayton Southers, and many more.
Kevin Maynor has recorded for Telarc , Fleur de Son Classics, Guild, Qualiton, Legato Records, Sony Music (Beijing), and Roven Records. Mr. Maynor has a diploma from the Manhattan School of Music, a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Bradley University, a Masters degree from Northwestern University and an Honarary Degree from the Moscow Conservatory. While in Bologna, Italy he studied with Paula Molinari at the Teatro Communale di Bologna. He is currently a Doctoral Candidate at Indiana Universiy in Bloomington.
OPERATIC ROLES
1.SARASTRO
2.OSMIN
3,MEFISTOFELE
4.HAGEN
5.PIMEN
6.KING PHILLIP
7.DALAND
8.JOE
9.COMMENDATORE
10.ARKEL
and ETC....
RING PRODUCTIONS:
1.SCOTTISH OPERA
2.TEATRO MUNICIPAL DE SANTIAGO
3.DALLAS OPERA
4.SAN FRANCISCO OPERA
5.SEATTLE OPERA
Upcoming Engagements 1999 - present day
Flint Symphony April 6-8, 2000 Romeo & Juliet (Berlioz)
L' Opera de Montreal April 26-29, 2000 Das Rheingold (Wagner)
Sobinov Fest ival (Russia)May 26 & 28, 2000 Robeson Recital & Aida (Verdi)
Seattle Opera June 14 - August 25, 2000 The Ring (Wagner)
Knoxville Opera September 11 - October 1, 2000 Rigoletto (Verdi)
Bethany Baptist Church Oct. 15,2000 RECITAL(Jazz Hymns)
Minnesota Opera October 16, - November 18,2000 Turandot (Puccini)
Roanoke Friends of the Symphony December 8,2000 RECITAL (multi Language)
Bayshore February 10, 2001 Recital
Austin Opera February 13 - March 11, 2001 Die Walkure (Wagner)
WNET/THIRTEEN Television/PBS Cable METROARTS Feb.19 - 26,2001 (HOST)
Queens College (NY)March 20,2000 Robeson recital
Victoria Opera March 28 - April 28, 2001 Nabucco (Verdi)
New York City; WNET/Thirteen; May 28 - June 3,2001; Museum for African Art
Seattle Opera June 1, 2001 - August 26, 2001 The Ring (Wagner)
WFMT radio; (Chicago) July 3,2001 (Interview)
BOSTON,MA; The African Meeting House; Oct.5, 2001 Amadou: Slaughter in Harlem (Max Roach,Amiri Baraka,Kevin Maynor,Coleridge Taylor - Perkinson.,Michael Raphael,Eric Olsen,Pheroan Aklaff)
Sacramento Opera Oct.28 - Nov.20, 2001 RIGOLETTO (Verdi)
Rutgers University; @ The Priory; Newark ,NJ. JAZZ HYMNS CD CELEBRATORY Dec.16, 2001 ; 6PM
Freeport; Long Island,NY; Library rECITAL;. GANHDI ,KING : ASPECTS OF AGRESSION
Northwestern University;.Recital; MLK ;January 21 ,2002: Evanston, IL.
NEW WORLD SYMPHONY; Miami,Florida: Feb.15,2002; THE SPIRITUAL.
Strasbourg (France) February 18, 2002 - April 3, 2002 SHOWBOAT (Kern)
Colmar (Germany/France) April 7&8, 2002 SHOWBOAT (Kern)
Mulhouse (Fance/Germany) April 13&14,2002 Showboat (Kern)
Hewelett ,NYRecital :FROM ANOTHER AMERICAN: April 21, 2002: Hewlett-Woodmere Library
NORFOLK,VA.: CD SIGNING; PLANET MUSIC - AUG. 31,2002 (JAZZ HYMNS)
PHOENIX,ARIZONA; An American Requiem Sept. 11, 2002
PITTSBURGH OPERA;SEPT.30-OCT.27,2002; SAM; UN BALLO IN MASCHERA
WQXR/RADIO - NEW YORK CITY: HARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS BROADCAST / NOVEMBER 9, 2002
NEW YORK: AVERY FISHER HALL;LINCOLN CENTER :DEC.21,2002: AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS,
NAACP/BENJAMIN HOOKS,;KEVIN MAYNOR://OLD MAN RIVER/NEWARK , NJ 07103
U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT ; INDIA/KALAGHODA FESTIVAL/ FEB.6-19, 2003
LONG ISLAND RECITAL/MARCH 7 , 2003
BENEFITS FOR BETHANY ACADEMY/ FEB.28; MAR.28, APR.25, 2003
1. GANDHI,KING:ASPECTS OF AGGRESSION
2. SCHUBERT THE MAN AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES
3. THE REPERTOIRE OF PAUL ROBESON
CANTON,OHIO/CANTON SYMPHONY. APRIL 13, 2003; VERDI REQUIEM
VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL/MEFISTOFELE / BOITO MAY 24, 2003/EXCERPTS (JULIUS RUDEL}
****TRILOGY / 3 AFRICAN AMERICAN OPERAS / FREDERICK DOUGLASS ; NAT TURNER ; HARRIETT: THE WOMAN CALLED MOSES / a showcaseALJIRA, A CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART / JUNE 7,2003.
SCIENCE PARK/ NJPAC; NEWARK, NJ//SEPT. 15, 2003
AFRICAN AMERICAN BURIAL GROUND REMAINS CEREMONY/ OCT.2, 2004/7PM
AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS/ AVERY FISHER HALL/NYC ; DEC.20, 2003 ; 11AM AND 1PM
WEST PALM BEACH ,FLORIDA ; KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: FEBRUARY 4,2004 / THE REPERTOIRE OF PAUL ROBESON
DVORAK TRIBUTE/ FEB. 15, 2004; ST. PAULS NYC/ELLINGTON BURLEIGH,DVORAK,COPLAND,ETC.
FROM MOZART - W.C. HANDY/ NEWARK PUBLIC SCHOOLS/ MARCH 5, 2004.
EUROPE / MARCH 8-22,2004
EUGENE, OREGON ; EUGENE CONCERT CHOIR: VERDI REQUIEM ; MAY 1-8, 2004
THE REPERTOIRE OF PAUL ROBESON: OREGON. MAY 1-6 , 2004
MASTERCLASS/EUGENE OREGON/MAY 1, 2004
TITO MANGLIO/Vivaldi// tito/Alice Tully Hall:Lincoln Center/NYC/ VIVALDI FESTIVAL;June 16, 2004 - 8pm/LOS
MILANO,LONDON,GENEVA/JUNE 2004.
T R I L O G Y / NAT TURNER/ nat /Newark,NJ: /JULY 29,2004 /THE ATRIUM(at the NEWARK CLUB) 8pm
NEWARK SCHOOLS GALA/ NEWARK, NJ// SEPT. 4, 2004
THE SYSIPHUS SYNDROME/SEPTEMBER 10 AND 17,2004/SCHOMBURG CENTER FOR BLACK RESEARCH/ NEW YORK CITY
WORLD PREMIERE/JACK BEESON AND GEORGE WALKER SONGS; SMITH COLLEGE/OCT.30,2004/NORTHHAMPTON, MA
WQXR/ HARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS/ NOV.13, 2004
Freeport, New York/ MEMORIAL LIBRARY/FEB. 8, 2005/ ITALIAN ART SONGS FOR BASS VOICE AND GUITAR AND :LUTE;
NEW ZEALAND 2005/ The Auckland festival 2005/ RECITAL; malcolm x: a comentary MARCH12,2005
NEW ZEALAND/ The Auckland arts festival/CONCERT/gandhi,king: aspects of aggression/MARCH 9,2005
NEW ZEALAND/ The AUCKLAND Festival /thematic recital/ MARCH 11, 2005/ the repertoire of paul robeson
TSUNAMI BENEFIT - AUSTRALASIA/MARCH
FLORIDA GRAND OPERA: MIAMI, FLORIDA; UN BALLO IN MASCHERA/VERDI/ /APRIL 4, 2004 - MAY 14, 2004//TOM
NEW YORK CITY/COSMOPOLITAN CHAMBER PLAYERS//GLINKA,SCHBERT,RAPHAEL: (LIBERMAN, GROSSMAN,LIDA, MAYNOR\\JUNE 8,2005 :8PM
FREDERICK DOUGLASS/ CABLEVISION/TV// AUG 9, , 2005 //:TRILOGY: AN OPERA COMPANY
NYC// AFRICAN BURIAL GROUND PROJECT - SCHOMBURG CENTER; 135TH ST.& MALCOLM X BOULEVARD /CONCERT//THE SPIRITUAL: AN UNDERGROUND RAILROAD// SPECIAL GUESTS<THE NEWARK BOYS CHORUS/ OCT 2. 2005//3PM
NEWARK ,NJ / ARTS HIGH SCHOOL//THE REPERTOIRE OF PAUL ROBESON(SPONSORED BY KEVIN MAYNOR AND TRILOGY AOC//OCT. 14, 2005 12:30PM.
WINSTON SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY, NORTH CAROLINA:/OCT. 18, 2005//MASTER CLASS /3:30PM
WINSTON SALEM U./RECITAL OCT. 18, 2005//7:30PM//SCHUBERT,SAINT-SAENS,MOUSORGSKY, BELLINI,VERDI,SWANSON,RAPHAEL,G.WALKER,ETC
NEW YORK CITY //PAUL ROBESON( BY PHILIP DEAN
WOODIE KING JR.(PRODUCER) FEDERAL THEATRE PROJECT//( Henry Street
Settlement Theatrre)NOV. 17-DEC.11, 2005 ................directed by
SHAUNELLE PERRY
LITTLE ORCHESTRA SOCIETY// AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS//AVERY FISHER HALL: LINCOLN CENTER; NYC//DEC.17,2005
MLK CELEBRATORY//NEWARK , NJ.//JAN. 16,2006
FREDERICK DOUGLASS BY DOROTHY RUDD - MOORE// JAN. 13, 2006//NEWARK ,NJ.//12PM; Mary Burch Theatre
WEST VIRGINIA WHEELING) BEETHOVEN 9TH SYMPHONY; JANUARY 27, 2006/ WHEELING SYMPHONY
NYC//MOZART CONCERT/ FIGARO(LE NOZZE DI FIGARO)...COLAS (BASTIEN UND BASTAIENNE) AVERY FISHER HALL; FEB 1-4,2006//LOS
WASHINGTON, D.C.//BOOTH THEATRE//PAUL ROBESON TRIBUTE, WITH DANNY GLOVER AND HARRY BELAFONTE//DICK GREGORY////APRIL 2006-RECITAL.
DES MOINES METRO OPERA//SPARAFUCILE-RIGOLETTO//MAY 28-JULY 11,2006
DMMO/IOWA; THE MAGIC FLUTE(DIE ZAUBERFLOETE- MOZART SARASTRO//MAY-JULY 2006
HARRIET : THE WOMAN CALLED MOSES/Sept. 15 & 17, 2006
LONG ISLAND , NEW YORK/RECITAL/6 LANGUAGES//SEPT. 9, 2006 - 7:30PM/freeport
PNC BANK ARTS CENTER///NEW JERSEY;SEPTEMBER 27, 2006//TURANDOT//(Timur.)
New Jersey//WESTFIELD SYMPHONY// CONCERT PERFORMANCE-TURANDOT (TIMUR) SEPT. 27 AND 30, 2006
ALASKA///ANCHORAGE OPERA//VIVA VERDI//NOV. 6-112006
JESSYE NORMAN AND KEVIN MAYNOR//BENEFIT FOR "PARTNERSHIP FOR THE HOMELESS" ST. BARTS : NYC//NOVEMBER 20, 2006
NYC//AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS//LOS; DECEMBER 9, 2006//BALTHAZAAR: 11AM AND 1PM
queens public library//MLK JR. PROGRAM//JAN. 14,2007
WQXR//96.3 : MLK BROADCAST//HSA:NYC :arias and songsVERDI,SWANSON,BROWN,MOZART,BURLEIGH,BOITO,RACHMANINOV,MOUSORSKY//JAN. 15,2007.
OPERA BIRMINGHAM//FEB. 11, 2007//SPIRITUALS
a. Hawthore ,NJ//fundraiser//spirituals; Feb.15, 2007
b.TAOC FUNDRAISER//SCIENCE PARK HS//EMMETT TILL//FEB.23, 2007. 7:30PM///NORFOLK AND MARKET ST.
c. NEWARK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS//RECITAL//THE BLACK ART SONG: FEB.24, 2007//12PM
d. East Orange, NJ//St.Marks AME//7pm//benefit,blk-history
e. NEW YORK{TUCKAHOE-SHILOH BAPTIST CHURCH} FEB.25, 2007//8AM
f. NEWARK, NJ//METROPOLITAN BAPTIST CHURCH//BLACK COMPOSERS CONCERT: FEB. 25, 2007
BARNES AND NOBLE ARTIST LAUNCH//ALL NEW YORK STORES//MARCH 2007
MIDLAND SYMPHONY//BEETHOVEN 9//APRIL 2007
NEWARK,NJ//EMMETT TILL: THE ORATORIO//TRILOGY: AN OPERA COMPANY JUNE 9, 2007
NEW YORK CITY//CD RELEASE - "PURE BASS"// QUALITON IMPORTS LABEL// INDEPENDENCE DAY RELEASE (7/4/07)
NEWARK, NJ//TRILOGY:AOC; CALL SHOUT AND HOLLER WITH KEVIN MAYNOR and SONIA SANCHEZ special guest. JULY 28, 2007 - 6PM/PASSAIC RIVER (CENTER ST. AND ROUTE 21)
FAIRYSTONE PARK//OPERA ON THE BEACH/AUGUST 2007 STUART, VA.;operatic recital...
NORFOLK,VA.//DOUG WILDER HALL; OCT. 28, 2007//CONCERT WITH ORCHESTRA// THE SPIRITUAL: AN UNDERGROUND RAILROAD.
New York City//ST. FRANCIS COLLEGE; NOV. 5, 2007//RECITAL//THE BLACK ART SONG
WQXR 96.3FM// HARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS -NOV.3, 2007
THERIESENSTADT MEMORIAL CONCERT//NOV. 3, 2007//JOHN JAY COLLEGE// WITH GEORGE HEARN, LYNN REDGRAVE, AND CAMIELIA JOHNSON - DON GIOVANNI/VERDI REQUIEM EXCERPTS
NEW YORK CITY//AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS//"BALTHAZAAR" - DEC. 8, 2007.//AVERY FISHER HALL - LINCOLN CENTER
NEW YORK,NY; ADELPHI UNIV.//FEB. 3, 2008/RECITAL;some brothers............BEETHOVEEN-PUSHKIN-SHAKESPEARE...MEET MALCOLM AND ROBESON??
//U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT EUROPEAN TOUR - FEB. - MARCH 2008//
1. PARIS (FEB.4-9)
1a. STRASBURG, 1b. mulhouse, 1c. REIMS.2. LEIPZIG
3.BERLIN
4.NUREMBERG
5. MUNICH
6.TUEBINGEN
NEW YORK CITY//NEW FEDERAL THEATRE - FEB.22,23,24, 2008//"PAUL ROBESON" NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE
NEWARK, NJ//NEWARK ARENA//PRUDENTIAL CENTER//GOAL BAR ROOM //t;OPERA SCENES" - 1. NAT TURNER 2. FREDERICK DOUGLASS 3. HARRIET : THE WOMAN CALLED MOSES - ORANGE BALL - 6:30PM....MARCH-15,2008*
NEW JERSEY//ESSEX CHORALE - MOZART REQUIEM ; MARCH 16,2008GREAT NECK, NY RECITAL//MARCH 30, 2008
THE SPOLETTO FSTIVAL//CHARLESTON, S.C.//"AMISTAD" BY ANTHONY DAVIS//APRIL 28 - JUNE 17, 2008
*
NEW JERSEY//TILL: AN OPERA ON THE MURDER OF THE BOY EMMETT//AUGUST 2, 2008. LIBRETTO....MUSIC BY CHARLES LLOYD,JR.
FAIRYSTONE FEST 2008//AUG. 23, 2008
NEWARK,NJ//DARFUR,DARFUR - a dramatic cantata by MICHAEL RAPHAEL//OCT. 16, 2008 WISOMMM CULTURAL CENTER -8pm;
JAPAN 2008World Premiere// America's Son BY MICHAEL RAPHAEL; Newark, NJ\prince hall- NOVEMBER 2, 2009//////////"BARACK OBAMA GET OUT THE VOTE EVENT"
Newark,NJ.....kevin maynor and The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra..Nov. 13,2008//JT'S
NEWARK, NEW JERSEY...GERRI ALLEN, KEVIN MAYNOR//"CHRISTMAS EVE @ BETHANY
HARLEM, NY///"AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS" (MENOTTI)...BALTHAZAAR ; HARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS THEATRE//JAN.9, 2009//7PM
CARNEGIE HALL//NYC //MARCH 23, 2009 - 8PM
NEW YORK CITY//"BODY AND SOUL" BY OSCAR MICHEAUX - VOCAL SCORE//WALTER READE THEATRE - FEB. 7, 2009
NEWAK , NEW JERSEY//PRUDENTIAL CENTER - ASPECTS OF TREEMONISHA...BY SCOTT JOPLIN//KEVIN MAYNOR AND FRIENDS OF TAOC - SPONSORED BY IRONMEN SOCCER TEAM//FEB. 18, 2009
NEWARK, NJ//newark public schools...."THE SPIRITUAL: AN UNDERGROUND RAILROAD"//FEB, 27, 2009
ALLIED CONCERTS U.S. TOUR MARCH- APRIL 2009
1.FAIRMONT,MN//MARCH 10,2009//TROPR
2.WORTHINGTON,MN//MARCH 12,2009//TROPR
3.GRAND ISLAND, NEBRASKA//MARCH 13, 2009//TROPR
4.OGALLALA, NE.//MARCH 14,2009//TROPR
5.MC COOK, NE//MARCH 15, 2009//TROPR
6.FAIRFIELD, IOWA//MARCH 17, 2009//TROPR
7.MARTINSVILLE,INDIANA//MARCH 19, 2009//TROPR
8 HICKSVILLE, OH//MARCH 20, 2009//TROPR
8.PERRYVILLE,MO//MARCH 21, 2009//TROPR
*************NEW YORK CITY - "HONOR THE VOICE " ..KEVIN MAYNOR WITH JESSYE NORMAN...MARCH 23, 2009// 8PM -CARNEGIE HALL****
9.CHANUTE,KS//MARCH 26,2009//TROPR
10.JOPLIN,MO//MARCH 24,2009//TROPR
12.OSAGE,IOWA//MARCH 27, 2009//TROPR
13.HURON,SOUTH DAKOTA//MARCH 29, 2009//TROPR
14.DILLON,MONTANA//MARCH 31, 2009//TROPR
{ILLINOIS,INDIANA,IOWA,SOUTH DAKOTA,OHIO,MISOURI,KANSAS,MONTANA,NEBRASKA....2009}
cd release1.the spiritual: an underground railroad 2. me and verdi, 3. old man river...2x's??
VIRGINIA//THE BRAHMS REQUIEM ///ROANOKE SYMPHONY - APRIL 23 - 27, 2009SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO/ SANTA FE SYMPHONY//VERDI REQUIEM - MAY 3 and 4,2009
NEW YORK/ BRONXVILLE....BENEFIT RECITAL....JUNE 12, 2009
NEWARK,NJ - TREEMONISHA BY SCOTT JOPLIN//JULY - AUGUST 1 , 2009
long island, ny -FREEPORT//..."DIE WINTERREISE" BY FRANZ SCHUBERT - SEPTEMBER 27, 2009 (LIBRARY)
NEWARK, NJ 2009 - OCT. 15, 2009 - janjaweed/DARFUR, DARFUR: A DRAMATIC CANTATA and..SUITE FOR THE NEWARK CHILD by M.RAPHAEL
1.masterclass< harlem, ny==oct.2009///CANNAN BAPTIST....2.HANDEL MESSIAH//Bethanny Baptist.Newark,NJ//dec.20,2009...3. Orange ball//feb.272009.opera scenes on TV ..LIVE!!
Newark,NJ 2010; Essex County College..."paul robeson moments" feb. 23, 4:30pm
TRILOGY : AN OPERA CO. FUNDRAISER.///FEB. 27, 2010; 6:00PM///KEY CLUB - 58 PARK PLACE-NEWARK, NJ 07103
SOPAC - NEW JERSEY///SETON HALL UNIVERSITY;RECITAL W/ JOSHUA BELL - (VIOLINIST) April 18, 2010.
.NEW JERSEY///GEORGE WALKER TRIBUTE - JUNE 12, 2010
three one acts.....TAOC ...AUGUST 2010
New York//long island...SCHWANEGESANG by FRANZ SCHUBERT//2010-2011
NJSO/KEVIN MAYNOR W/ MAESTRO JACQUES LACOMBE AT THE PIANO....SEPT. 26, 2010 - NJPAC....NEWARK, NJ 4:00PM
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.....STABAT MATER by G. ROSSINI//BASS SOLOS - OCTOBER 22-23, 2010
NEWPORT NEWS, VA////MEFISTOFELE (BOITO) OCT. 28, 2010/8PM
NORFOLK, VA. CHRYSLER HALL VIRGINIA SYMPHONY....OCT.30, 2010///8PM
VIRGINIA BEACH.....SANDLER HALL ///PROLOGUE TO MEFISTOFELE (BOITO)
NEW YORK,NY//AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS-"BALTHAZAAR...DEC. 18, 2010/AVERY FISHER HALL - LINCOLN CENTER
Harlem, New York//THE SCHOMBURG..."A BETTY ALLEN TRIBUTE" FEB. 28, 2011...@ 7PM
h o n g k o n g - u n i t e d s t a t e s
TAIWAN// APRIL 5-18, 2011
1.KAOHSIUNG - Kaohsiung Symphony Orchestra// April 9, 2011
2.TAINAN- National Tainan University// April 11, 2011
3.NEW TAIPEI - National Taipei University of Arts/ April 15, 2011
4.TAIPEI - April 17, 2011
BRAZIL, SOUTH AMERICA///King Mark in TRISTAN UND ISOLDE...WAGNER........BRAZIL - FESTIVAL AMAZONAS DE OPERA//APRIL - MAY 31, 2011)
NEWARK, NJ//AFRICA FEST...TRILOGY: AN OPERA COMPANY - 2011... NAT TURNER,FREDERICK DOUGLASS,HARRIETT -July,TREEMONISHA,EMMETT TILL, JAMES BYRD,THE THREE MAYORS
NEW YORK/LONG ISLAND SONGS AND DANCES OF DEATH - MOUSORGSKY/// VIER ERNSTE GESAENGE - BRAHMS///RUEKERT LIEDER - MAHLER - ///FREEPORT......SEPT.11, 2011...2PM
NYC - SHAUNEILLE PERRY: a celebration.......starring Debbie Allen, Kevin Maynor, Ruby Dee, Ebony Joann, Woodie King jr. Phylicia Rashad, Andre De sheilds,George Faison, ETC. NOVEMBER 14, 2011 @ 3PM///RIVERSIDE CHURCH, MANHATTAN
NEW JERSEY//FREDERICK DOUGLASS: A LIFE IN SPEECH AND SONG///DEC.15 (11-1PM...UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENISTRY NEW JERSEY
NEWARK,NJ//RECITAL - FLIGHT TO HEAVEN by NED ROREM///Creative Art Healthcare....JAN.16, 2012 @ 4:30PM - UMDNJ, THE GELLENE ROOM
SOUTH
AMERICA/RECORDING ..."CONDOR" BY CARLOS GOMEZ
Newark,nj - The Spiritual: An Underground Railroad - UMDNJ...creative arts healthcare//Feb. 16, 2012 - 12pm
Newark,NJ - THE RUCKERT LIEDER BY GUSTAV MAHLER/MARCH 15, 2012//12PM// UMDNJ
NEWARK, NJ - THE SONGS OF SCHUBERT//APRIL, 10, 2012 - 12PM...CREATIVE ARTS HEALTH CARE/SPACE - UMDNJ
New York, NY - NEW YORK CITY OPERA; NED in TREEMONISHA by SCOTT JOPLIN///april 30, may 1,2, 2012
NEWARK,
NJ///Trilogy: AOC - "The
Mask in the Mirror" by Richard Thompson (BISHOP) August 4. 2012
@ 8pm// Central Theater
FIJI ISLANDS.......AUGUST 19-29, 2012 STATE DEPT. TOUR - TONGA KIRIBATU,SUVA, NAURU, TUVALU, FIJI....(RS)
PREVIEW....NEW JERSEY....THE REPERTOIRE OF PAUL ROBESON MAY 2012
NEW YORK / ADELPHI UNIVERSITY//RECITAL - OCT. 6, 2012..SONGS AND DANCES OF DEATH by Modeste Mousorgsky
MONTGOMERY,
NY/RECITAL - MOUSORGSKY, BRAHMS, SCHUBERT, MAHLER//////NOV. 17,
2012/8PM
Newark, NJ / UMDNJ..."Gandhi, King: Aspects of Aggression....Recital December 5, 2012 12pm.
New York City//THE GREENE SPACE..THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION/FREDERICK DOUGLAS in speech and song - KEVIN MAYNOR SINGS AND SPEAKS ON DOUGLAS_ULYSEES KAY{JAN. 8, 2013}@7PM
NEW
YORK,NY/SYMPHONY SPACE - DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM ...KEVIN MAYNOR SINGS
GEORGE WALKER.......... FEBRUARY 10, 2013 @ 12PM
".....Papa Doc" an Opera......by Dorothy Rudd Moore// FEB. 23, 2013
newark, nj/newark public library.......THE black ART song//recital..March 27, 2013/6pm
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK/ ISSUE PROJECT ROOM//HINTERKANTE
RESONANZ(HOFFE AXIOM) by Sabisha Friedberg (for bass voice
and 3 contrabassi)WORLD PREMIERE//APRIL 11, 2013 @ 8PM
New
Jersey, City of Newark//Kevin Maynor sings in Concert "GANDHI, KING:
ASPECTS OF AGGRESSION" BETHANY BAPTIST CHURCH 275 ww. Market/April 28,
2013 @ 3pm
BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC...JUNE 1 AND 2, 2013///BUFFALO , NEW YORK. - MEFISTOFELE by ARRIGO BOITO///JOANN FALLETA, CONDUCTOR
PAUL ROBESON bY Adolphus Hailstork on a Libretto by SHAUNEILLE PERRY (OPERA).......NJ&NY//AUG 3, 2013 ..Central Theater & SEPT 14 and 21,2013.
PARSIFAL 2013........GURNEMANZ - S. AMERICA *rs
NJPAC/ Paul Robeson Remembered and excerpts from "ROBESON" by Adolphus Hailstork//November 3, 2013 ........@ 3PM Newark, NJ
from
The Repertoire of Paul Robeson.....kevin maynor, bass//NEW JERSEY
CITY UNIVERSITY..OCT. 16, 2013////7PM-9PM with special guest
Susan Robeson and Eric Olsen, piano
Choral Arts Society of Washington, D.C.// November 10, 2013 @4pm VERDI REQUIEM in Honor of President John F. Kennedy...THE KENNEDY CENTER CONCERT HALL
Artist in Residency/East Orange/Cicely Tyson/(Feb.-March)
1. The Italian Art Song
2. H. T. Burleigh Spirituals
3. Excerpts from The Magic Flute
Specials
1. New Jersey/Feb. 22, 2014/The Hudson School - Hoboken, NJ//Recital - w/chorus
2.
New Jersey/March 30, 2014/Westfield Oratorio Singers/Mozart Grand Mass
in c minor/(bass soloist) and St. Augustine(premiere) by Trent Johnson
ESSEX COUNTY PARKS
- Branch Brook Park //
SUMMER
2014//CONCERT VERSION OF "ROBESON"
BY ADOLPHUS
HAILSTORK//July 16, 2014 - 7pm
Papa Doc by Dorothy Rudd Moore//July 26, 2014
The Mask in the Mirror by Richard Thompson//August 2, 2014
From The Repertoire of Paul Robeson//Sept. 21, 2014 3pm - The Princeton Performing Arts Center////Princeton , NJ - Recital
Robeson:
THE OPERA /NJPAC//NOVEMBER 23, 2014@ 7PM
New York City // Cabin Creek Films "The Nation", a documentary// Cabin Creek Films...Oct. 7, 2014..by Barbara Kopple//"HOT TYPE 150"// ... @ MOMA
NJPAC U.S. Premiere// ROBESON: THE OPERA// November 23, 2014 - 7pm - Victoria Theater
New Jersey/Paterson Public Schools...John F. Kennedy H.S. "the bird that wants to fly" by michael Raphael////January 17, 2015 Text by Diane Kaufman
New Jersey/NEWARK PUBLIC LIBRARY//Feb 4, 2015.."Dedication Recital"
NEW JERSEY(MADISON) March 7, 2015// FILMING AND RECORDING OF "THE BIRD THAT WANTS TO FLY" by Michael Raphael (DREW UNIERSITY)
**** Produced by MARLAN BARRY, JORDAN RENNERT with special thanks to my friend DAVID FROST ///arts medicine - executive producers
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
New York// April 23, 2015 /"Migration and JACOB LAWRENCE: The Painter//The Museum of Modern Art....music of the slave to the music of the laborer, moving from South to North..
1. Another man done gone
2. St. Louis Blues
3. John Henry
**East Orange artist in residency/cicely TYSON performing arts academy//master classes (9)
Essex County Weequahic Park, NJ/..July 16 @ 7 pm ...........MALCOLM X: A COMMENTARY....(a conceptual concert for bass voice and piano w/ visuals
Newark NJ/ Homage to a King by Julius Williams (A dramatic oratorio)....JULY 19, 2015/ @ 7pm///Bass voice, 2 trombones , 2 french horns//ALJIRA: a center for contemporary art
New Jersey/ "FIVE"...The Central Park Five: an operatic version by Anthony Davis (Dramatic Preview)Part one//. August 1, 2015
libretto by Richard Wesley
New Jersey/NJPAC GARVEY by Michael Raphael...November 22, 2015 @7pm....The Victoria Opera House
New Jersey/Cicely Tyson Performing Arts Academy..."AMAHL and the NIGHT VISITORS" by Gian Carlo Menotti//December 18, 19, 20, 2015//producer
Newark, NJ/ Gandhi, King: Aspects of Aggression....JAN. 18 , 2016...NEWARK MUSEUM - MLK DAY
NEWARK, NJ//MARIAN THOMPSON WRIGHT//FEB. 21, 2016
Newark, nj / February 25, 2016 7:30PM// Kenyatta - by trent johnson/ preview..."orange ball"(THE NEWARK CLUB)
TENNESSEE/ TENNESSEE TECH .....mini Recital, master class, lecture/April 8, 9, 10, 2016
NORFOLK, VA/ NORFOLK...VA CRISPUS ATTUCKS THEATER...excerpts from EMMETT TILL,GARVEY, THE BIRD THAT WANTS TO FLY, THE THREE MAYORS by MICHAEL RAPHAEL....APRIL 17, 2016...6PM
HACKENSACK CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FUNDRAISER//MINI RECITAL //1. ERLKONIG by Franz Schubert and There is a Balm in Gilead
(New Jersey/July 13, 2016/@ 6PM -- The Three Mayors by MICHAEL RAPHAEL*)..Veterans MEMORIAL Park, NEWARK NJ 07103
NEWARK, NJ.AUGUST 6, 2016 K E N Y A T TA
...by TRENT JOHNSON...Science Park H.S. 7pm. NEWARK, NJ 07103
Newark , New Jersey...JOE LOUIS by COUNT BASIE/ 15 Washington (Trilogy Space) October 15, 2016. 8pm
Newark, NJ WORLD PREMIER "FIVE" BY ANTHONY DAVIS//Nov. 12, 2016 ....libretto by Richard Wesley @Victoria Opera House NJPAC @7pm
New York, NY ......The Messiah by G.F. Handel @LINCOLN CENTER...Dec. 12, 2016@ David Geffen Hall
Pacific Island Tour 2017/December/rs
1. Australia / rs
2. Indonesia / rs
NEWARK....DAS RHEINGOLD BY RICHARD WAGNER...MARCH 19, 2017...........(FASOLT) NJPAC
Pittsburgh, Penn./ Opera Theater of Pittsburgh..."A GATHERING OF SONS" - may 22 - july 8...."Glock"
Newark, NJ //VETERANS MEMORIAL PARK....JULY 12, 2017 @ 7PM... NED in SCENES FROM "TREEMONISHA" by Scott Joplin//Trilogy: an opera company
Newark, New Jersey//Nat Turner by Michael Raphael (NAT)
August 5, 2017...Central Theater
Malaga , SPAIN..Costa Del Sol//August 29-Sept. 5, 2017////free tour..
Jackson, Mississippi// MISSISSIPPI SYMPHONY......OCTOBER 7, 2017...Treemonisha by Scott Joplin
Newark, NJ/// WEB/Booker T ...libretto Richard Wesley... by JULIUS WILLIAMS.. Oct. 14, 2017 ( with dialogue)Bethany Baptist Church 146th Anniversary in Newark, NJ
NEW JERSEY / NOVEMBER 12, 2017....KENYATTA by Trent Johnsom...// NJPAC @ 7PM...VICTORIA OPERA HOUSE.
Newark,NJ March 18, 2018 Die Walkeure...Richard Wagner (Hunding). NJPAC 1 CENTER ST. NEWARK, NJ
Newark School of the Arts Gala// April 10
2018 Trilogy: an opera company 15th Anniversary Season/MAY 20, 2018 GALA
GARVEY
as GARVEY july 19, 2018/ Newark, NJ
( SCIENCE THEATER) 260 Norfolk
St....7pm
ROBESON as ROBESON///Aug.4,,,7pm (CENTRAL THEATER) 246 18th ave. Newark, NJ 07103......7pm
WEB/BOOKER T as BOOKER T . Bethany Baptist Church - Theater (HOMECOMING AND ANNIVERSARY PRODUCTION) OCT. 13, 2018
SCOTT, GARNER, GRAY: says JIMMY BALDWIN as Walter Scott !!!!
NJPAC 1 center st. Newark , NJ 07102 @ 7pm (Victoria opera house)
Messiah Orange, NJ Union Baptist Church ESSEX CHORALE DECEMBER 16, 2018 3PM
SIEGFRIED as WANDERER MARCH 30, @2019.....
Newark, NJ Treemonisha by Scott Joplin....."NED" July 20, 2019 @7pm Science Theater...260 norfolk st. newark, nj
Essex County///Frederick Douglass by ulysees kay,,,August 3, 2019 "douglass".....7pm
@The Central Theater, NEWARK, NJ
SCOTT GARNER GRAY, SAYS JIMMY BALDWIN by Dwayne Fulton
"walter Scott"///Bethany Baptist church 275 w. Market Oct. 12, 2019@ 7pm
Sassy by Richard Thompson//NJPAC...December 8@ 7pm
The Messiah G.F. Handel in Orange New Jersey...Dec. 15/ 2019
Tear Drop Memorial, memorial concert......Bayonne NJ//// (in honor of the Russian Army Chorus)Dec. 28, 2019
GOETTERDAEMERRUNG by Richard Wagner 2020....HAGEN AUGUST 2 ...6PM/// The UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS CHARTER SCHOOL
Othello by Richard Thompson....the role of "Othello"....JULY 25, 2020 7PM ........VETERANS MEMORIAL PARK
EMMETT TILL by Michael Raphael...the role of The Archangel-Nov. 10 2020 8pm with THE NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
2021 covid updates
BLAKE BY H. LESLIE ADAMS April 25//director...UHCS Amphitheater
ROBESON BY ADOLPHUS HAILSTORK as Robeson June 19...University Heights Charter School AMPHITHEATER 4PM
THE
MARTINSVILLE SEVEN BY DWAYNE FULTON...libretto Mark Clayton
Southers//as "John Lewis" August 1, 2021...central theater / newark, NJ
EMMETT TILL BY MICHAEL RAPHAEL...Sept.. 24, 2021,,,"arch angel"..Central Theater/Newark,nj
and..
FREDERICK DOUGLASS BY ULYSEES KAY as "Douglass"...Nov 29, 2021/////NEWARK, NJ
Das
Rheingold/Wagner(Vick) March 26,
2022...... 'fafner' //
NPS/Express/GREEN SCREEN STUDIO~ Newark 4pm
NAT TURNER April 23, 2022 with NJS as Nat...by Michael Raphael
NJPAC may 11//// Victoria Foundation/Irene Cooper Basch Tribute 5pm...newark,nj
DIE WALKURE Broadcast (HUNDING) MAY 21, 2022 @ 4PM ON YOUTUBE WATCH FOR THE LINK
SIEGFRIED, BY RICHARD WAGNER/JULY 2, 2022 @4PM....(FAFNER) CENTRAL THEATER
goetterdaemerrung / wagner AUGUST 6
DIE WALKURE/WAGNER NOVEMBER 12
Fannie Lou, I'm sick and tired Thompson/Medley December 10, 2022 role/ "Pap"
Sassy by Richard Thompson role/"Robeson" june 3, 2023 @ 7pm Science Theater Newark, NJ (Alexis Morrast as Sassy)
OTHELLO by richard thompson (title Role) July 1, 2023 @ 7pm
veterans memorial park
Fannie lou I'm sick and tired - August 4, 2003 Zion Hill Baptist Church 6:30pm
Princeton Recital - 125 years celebrating PAUL ROBESON
OCTOBER 15, 2023 @ 3PM
NOVEMBER 10, 2023 //BUMPY, A STUDY WITH ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS
kevin maynor as bumpy johnson
(taoc)
Bumpy Johnson by Dwayne Fulton(libretto Amiri Baraka) title role///Memorial Hall, Montclair Univerity....Montclair, NJ///March 9, 2024 -6:30pm
special guest DANNY GLOVER as Langston Hughes
May 11, 2024...7pm Caldwell University...concert
Maynor/Olsen
memorial concert & guests in honor of Pamela
Olsen
Scott , Garner, Gray: says Jimmy Baldwin by Dwayne Fulton
July 9, 2024//Essex county Arts Festival...Watsessing Park 7:30pm
August 3, 2024....PAPA DOC by Dorothy Rudd Moore
November 23, 2024 The Martinsville seven by Dwayne Fulton
Mary Burch Theater 4pm/ESSEX COUNTY COLLEGE, Newark, NJ
JANUARY 2025 "the passion of martin luther ing jr" (FLAGELLO)
FEBRUARY 6,7,8,9. 2025 // Paul Robeson Remembered
7pm and 3pm sunday starring KEVIN MAYNOR, BASS
ERIC OLSEN. PIANO///WP THEATER
BROADWAY and 76th street
March 8, 2025 Fannie Lou, I'm sick and tired by Richard Thompson MBT 4pm
Newark, nj///"PAP"
MAY 4, 2025 BUMPY JOHNSON
JULY 11, 2025 ROBESON
AUGUST 3, 2025 GOETTERDAEMERRUNG
NOVEMBER 22, 2025 KENYATTA
Russia.2024 and ITALY...fall 2025
London, England/ The Ring
New York//The Michaelangelo lieder by Dimitri Shostakovich (2025) rs
PBS SPECIAL 2025
Contacts
Management PINNACLE ARTS MANAGEMENT MGMT.
Telephone Number (212) 397 - 7915
PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE: JOHN MILLER (212) 397 - 7911
Fax : 212 - 397 7920
Publicist:YMA - 212 397 - 7915
KEVINAYNOR@EARTHLINK.NET(Opera)
E-Mail: -KEMaynor@Juno.com (Recitals)
KEVINMAYNOR@EARTHLINK.net (COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS)
Kevin
Maynor has done and produced State Department Tours in France. Germany,
Russia, South Africa, China, India, Fiji, Taiwan, New Zealand
PROJECT SPECIALS
O.E.N.=opera exposure newark presents: THE TRILOGY 1.) NAT TURNER (RAPHAEL) 2.) FREDERICK DOUGLASS (RUDD-MOORE) 3.)HARRIETT: the woman called moses (MUSGRAVE)
M.M.M.T.C. { music multi media thematic concerts } a.) FROM ANOTHER AMERICAN (overview of american life...tradgedy...triumph) b.) THE LOW BASS (film and song of the classical period) c.) JAZZ HYMNS ( a study of the hymns by way of film and song of the jazz artists who influenced the project
TRILOGY: AN OPERA COMPANY
This new festival will perform opera by african -american composers with artists from across the world..
MAJOR FESTIVALS
1.
Auckland Festival 2. Wolf Trap Festival 3. Music
Under the Stars 4. Kalaghoda Festival 5. Shanghai
Festival
6. Wasawasa Festival 7. Sobinov Festival 8. Grant Park Festival 9. Spoletto Festival 10. The Grahamstown Festival
11.
Teatro Amazonas Festival 12. Artpark Festival
13.American Music Festival 14. American Opera Festival
KEVIN MAYNOR'S MANY CLOSE COLLABORATORS INCLUDE, LIONEL HAMPTON, BILLY TAYLOR, RITA MCINTYRE,WILLIAM HURT, GLENN CLOSE, HARRY CONNICK JR., DAVE BRUBECK, GWENDOLYN BROOKS, JEFFREY LYONS, LYNN REDGRAVE, JESSYE NORMAN, TONY RANDALL,VANESSA REDGRAVE, HOWARD THURMAN, ALVIN POUSAINT, JOHN HENRIK CLARKE, WOODIE KING JR. GEORGE O'HEARN, HARRY CARSON, AMIRI BARAKA, DICK GREGORY, RANDY WESTON, DON MATERA, DANNY GLOVER,HAL PRINCE, ANTHONY CHISHOLM, BETTY ALLEN,GEORGE WALKER, JOHN HOUSEMAN, KOFI ANON, PHILIP GLASS, JOSHUA BELL, ROBERT SHERMAN, TERRANCE MCKNIGHT, AND MANY MORE...
THEMATIC RECITALS AND CONCEPTUAL CONCERTS
1. Malcolm X: A Commentary
2.The Repertoire of PAUL ROBESON
3. Frederick Douglass: A Life in Speech and Song
4.Gandhi, King: Aspects of Aggression
5. The Spiritual: An Underground Railroad
6.Schubert: The Man and his Contemporaries
7. Shout,Call,and Holler: An Acapella Evening
8. The Russian Romance and the Bass Voice
9.Bel Canto and the Bass Voice
10. Howard Swanson - Margaret Bonds: An Exploration of the Black Art Song
11.The French Chasson and the Bass Voice
12. Langston Hughes vs. Paul Lawrence Dunbar
13. The Bass Voice Sings Duke Ellington
14. MLK JR.
15. Frederick Douglass and Beyond
16. JAZZ HYMNS
18. AMADOU: SLAUGHTER in HARLEM
CD's
THE BIRD THAT WANTS TO FLY
by Michael Raphael ROVEN RECORDS/ NAXOS / AUDIBLE .COM
Kevin Maynor, Bass The Black Art Song , Eric Olsen, piano
.Kevin Maynor, Bass PAUL ROBESON REMEMBERED(FLEUR DE SON)
GRAND and GLORIOUS GREAT OPERATIC CHORUSES Robert Shaw
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Choruses (TELARC)
DOM SEBASTIEN Two CD set Leech Takacs Miller Koptchak Queler (LEGATO)
JAZZ HYMNS Kevin Maynor,Bass(GUILD) WORLD FAVORITES
NEW, NEW , NEW ,NEW ,NEW!!!!!!!!!
PURE BASS BASS ARIAS with RICHARD WOITACH//
BASSO A LA BAROQUE /Zelenka,Landi,Scarlatti,Purcell,Monteverdi,Vivaldi
FROM ANOTHER AMERICAN (GUILD) SONGS OF AMERICA
THE LOW BASS (GUILD) LIEDER,CHASSON,ROMANCES,and AMERICAN ART SONGS
THE SPIRITUAL: AN UNDERGROUND RAILROAD(Barnes and Noble)
OLD MAN RIVER 2X'S(Barnes and Noble)
ME AND VERDI(Barnes and Noble)
Kevin Maynor has performed and been a long time advocate of the historically Black Colleges including:
Morehouse
Talladega
Mississippi Valley State
Tennessee State
Fisk University
Bethune Cookman
Florida A&M
Lincoln University
Johnson C. Smith
North Carolina A&T
Bennett College
Norfolk State
Shaw University
North Carolina Central
Clark
Jackson State
Delaware State
Morgan State
Winston Salem University
Central State University
Hampton University
Howard University
Morris Brown
Knoxville College
Southern University
Spelman
College
VHS projects