Rockland Osgood, tenor

Tenor Rockland Osgood has distinguished himself in musical idioms from the Baroque to the contemporary. Recent performances include Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Pennsylvania Sinfonia, Messiah at Avery Fisher Hall with the Peniel Concert Choir, and at Carnegie Hall with John Rutter conducting.  He appeared last season with Cantata Singers in Lior Navok’s Slavery Documents 3: And the Trains Kept Coming and Weill’s The Prophets, and in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion at the Northwest Bach Festival with Gunther Schuller conducting.  Previous season’s concerts included an all Beethoven concert at Carnegie Hall with the Oratorio Society of New York, Handel’s Ode to St. Cecilia and Mendelssohn’s Paulus in St. Ignatius Loyola’s Sacred Music in a Sacred Place series,Berlioz’ L’Enfance du Christ with Chorus pro musica, Verdi’s Requiem, Britten’s War Requiem, Carmina Burana at Mechanics Hall, and Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and Bach’s Mass in B minor at the Northwest Bach Festival.  He has appeared at New York’s Lincoln Center in Vivaldi's L'Olimpiad and Arsilda, Regina di Ponto, and Carmina Burana as well as Mozart's Mass in C minor.  Carnegie Hall performances have included Haydn's The Creation and Handel’s Messiah.  Mr. Osgood has been a featured soloist with the Monterey County Symphony, Berkshire Choral Festival, Spectrum Singers, Voices of Ascension, North Carolina Symphony, Hartford Symphony, Back Bay Chorale, West Virginia Symphony, Boston Cecilia, Sioux City Symphony, Fredonia Chamber Players, Jacksonville Symphony, New York Choral Society, Masterworks Chorale, Oregon Symphony, Brevard Music Festival, Newport Music Festival, and the Spoleto Festival USA.  His operatic roles include Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, andTamino in Die Zauberflöte with opera companies including Anchorage, Mobile, and Syracuse Opera. For many years, Mr. Osgood was a member of the Cantata Singers chorus, and he has frequently appeared with the group as a soloist.