Jubilant Sykes
Jubilant Sykes (born 1960, Los Angeles, California) is an African-American baritone.[1] He has performed with Christopher Parkening and other artists,[2] and has appeared in such venues as the Metropolitan Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Carnegie Hall,[3] the Kennedy Center, London's Barbican Centre, the Apollo Theater, Hollywood Bowl, New Orleans Jazz Festival and hundreds of other major venues around the world.
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Jubilant Sykes performs during a master class at Pepperdine University in 2019.
Sykes performed the role of the Celebrant in the Grammy Award-nominated 2009 recording of Leonard Bernstein's Mass, with the Morgan State University Choir and Baltimore Symphony Orchestra under Marin Alsop, for Naxos Records.[4]
References
- Norris, Michele, A Jubilant Voice: Classically Trained Singer Jubilant Sykes, in the Spotlight, National Public Radio, 16 December 2002
- Epstein, Benjamin, "Singer's Not Jubilant in Name Alone", Los Angeles Times, 13 December 1996
- Tommasini, Anthony, Music Review: The Bernstein Mass Project, New York Times 26 October 2008
- [No authors listed] (2009). "Bernstein MASS". Naxos Records. Retrieved 2011-06-13.
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