ROCKLAND OSGOOD
Tenor

Last season, Mr. Osgood’s performances included Britten’s War Requiem with the Sioux City Symphony, Messiah with the Jacksonville Symphony and with the Peniel Concert Choir at Avery Fisher Hall, and Bach’s Mass in b minor with the National Chorale at Lincoln Center. He returned to the Northwest Bach Festival where he performed Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with Gunther Schuller conducting. He also performed Les Noces and Carmina Burana with the Providence Singers as well as Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with Musica Sacra, Britten’s Saint Nicholas wit h the Chatham Chorale and Mozart’s Mass in c at the Berkshire Choral Festival.

In previous seasons he performed Messiah and a Bach/Schubert concert with the National Chorale at Lincoln Center as well as at the Northwest Bach Festival in Mass in b minor. He was soloist in The Creation with the Boston Cecilia, Elijah with the Fredonia Chamber Players conducted by Joel Revzen and Britten’s Cantata Misericordia with Spectrum Singers. Other recent performances have included Vivaldi's L'Olimpiade and Mozart's Mass in c-minor at New York's Lincoln Center, Haydn's The Creation and also Messiah under the direction of John Rutter at Carnegie Hall, Mass in b-minor at the Westminster Choir College Summer Festival, Pinkham's St. Mark Passion with Chorus pro musica, Symphony #2 of Mendelssohn with the Eastern Connecticut Symphony, Les Noces with Cantata Singers, a recording project of 20th Century chamber music in Prague, and Messiah with the Nashua Symphony, Shreveport Symphony and the Fairfield County Chorale.

Mr. Osgood has sung Vivaldi's Arsilda, Regina di Ponto at Lincoln Center, Carmina Burana with the Back Bay Chorale, the St. John Passion with Boston Cecilia, the second United States performance of Rossini's Messa di Gloria with the Choral Arts Society, and has been heard at the Spoleto Festival USA performing Bach's Magnificat and Beethoven's Mass in C. He has also appeared with Mobile Opera as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, the Monterey County Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, and the Berkshire Choral Festival. He has been guest soloist in Handel’s Saul with the West Virginia Symphony and Bach’s Mass in B Minor at Avery Fisher Hall in New York, made his Carnegie Hall debut in Mozart’s Requiem , starred as Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail with Syracuse Opera, Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Brevard Music Festival, and Tamino in Die Zauberflöte with Anchorage Opera. He has appeared as soloist with the Boston Symphony under Seiji Ozawa in Berg’s Wozzeck and Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, with the Oregon Symphony and James DePreist in Carmina Burana, with members of the Spokane Symphony as the Evangelist in the Saint John Passion and has sung Messiah with the Symphony Orchestras of Canton, Jacksonville and Syracuse, among others. He performed both Tamino and Nemorino for the Longwood Opera in Boston. Other appearances have included engagements at the Library of Congress, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, the New England Bach Festival, the Handel & Haydn Society of Boston and the Newport Music Festival.

He was a featured soloist with the New York Choral Society on their 1985 tour of Greece and toured nationally with the Boston Camerata. In competition, he was a winner of the New York Oratorio Society Solo Competition in 1991 as well as the National Association of Teachers of Singing Solo Competition in 1992.

Living in Bedford since 1996, he is married to Deanna Dalrymple, who plays oboe and English horn and was previously a faculty member at Oklahoma State University. She is currently the administrator of the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. They have two children, Olivia and Tristan.

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