Roderick George

Distinguished American tenor RODERICK GEORGE made his New York Lincoln Center debut as a soloist in Handel’s Messiah with the National Chorale. International highlights have included performances throughout Russia with the Orpheus Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Krasnoyarsk Philharmonic, and multiple concert tours throughout the U.S. and abroad as a featured soloist with the American Spiritual Ensemble and more recently with the Jason Max Ferdinand Singers. An accomplished song recitalist, he specializes in art song settings on texts of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes, and he is a noted interpreter of the art songs of H.T. Burleigh. Based in Birmingham, Alabama, he is Professor and Area Coordinator of Voice at the University of Montevallo. Among his credentials is a doctorate in voice performance from The Florida State University College of Music. He received advanced training in Austria at the American Institute of Musical Studies. www.roderickgeorge.com