ROBERT HONEYSUCKER,  Baritone

            Baritone ROBERT HONEYSUCKER is recognized internationally for his brilliant opera, concert and recital performances.  His voice has inspired critical acclaim:  "...powerful, passionate and plaintive....a voice that possesses great richness and warmth."  Honored as 1995 “Musician of the Year" by The Boston Globe critic Richard Dyer, Mr. Honeysucker has also been a winner of the National Opera Association Artists Competition and a recipient of the New England Opera Club Jacopo Peri Award.

Robert Honeysucker's opera performances have included the roles of Amonasro, Escamilio, Germont, Miller, Iago, Renato, Rigoletto and Sharpless. He has appeared with such companies as Boston Lyric Opera, Connecticut Opera, Delaware Opera, Eugene Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Opera Boston, Opera Company of Boston, Sacramento Opera, Tulsa Opera, and Utah Opera.         

Overseas, Mr. Honeysucker has performed such roles as Don Giovanni, Figaro, Sharpless, and Porgy in Auckland, New Zealand; Jake in Berlin, Germany; and Daedalus in the world premiere of Icarus, by Paul Earls, at Brucknerfest in Linz, Austria.  Additionally, he has appeared in opera concerts in the Persian Gulf directed by Cesare Alfieri (assistant conductor at La Scala, Milan), as well as numerous concerts in Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

             Robert Honeysucker has enjoyed many engagements with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, including an appearance as soloist in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, in celebration of Seiji Ozawa’s twenty-fifth season as Music Director.  He has most recently appeared as Second Prisoner, in Beethoven’s Fidelio, conducted by James Levine.  He was the baritone soloist in All Rise (Winton Marsalis), conducted by Kurt Masur at Symphony Hall, with a repeat performance at Tanglewood, and has sung Copland’s Old American Songs, conducted by Marin Alsop.  Among his many appearances with the Boston Pops, he sang the final Fourth of July concert on the Esplanade, conducted by John Williams, and appeared in the 2007 Fourth of July concert, conducted by Keith Lockhart.  He also performed with the Boston Pops under the directions of Harry Ellis Dickson and Grant Llewellyn.  Other orchestral appearances have included:  Verdi’s Requiem, with the Cantata Singers, directed by David Hoose; Elijah with Handel and Haydn Society, directed by Christopher Hogwood; world premiere of Howard Frazin’s The Voice of Issac with PALS Children’s Chorus (Boston, MA); Missa Solemnis with the Northwest Bach Festival Orchestra (Spokane, WA), directed by Gunther Schuller; Charles Ives' General William Booth Enters into Heaven, with the Pittsburgh Symphony, directed by Michael Tilson Thomas at Great Woods Performing Arts Center; Aaron Copland's Old American Songs with Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra, Harold Weller, conductor; Carmina Burana with Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of David Wiley, and with Omaha Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Bruce Hangen; and Hodie (Vaughn Williams) with the Utah Symphony and Mormon Tabernacle Choir, directed by Keith Lockhart, which was televised on PBS.  He has also performed with St. Louis Symphony, Long Island Philharmonic, Portland (ME) Symphony Orchestra (Maine), and Sacramento Symphony Orchestra.  Engagements in Japan have featured him as soloist with Sapporo Symphony, Osaka Philharmonic, and Tokyo Philharmonic in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony; soloist with the Tokyo Symphony in Handel's Messiah; The Telemann Chamber Orchestra in Osaka in Bach's Christmas Oratorio, with Jeffrey Rink, conductor; and the Kansai Chamber Orchestra in Kobe and Kyoto in performance of Handel’s Messiah and Bach cantatas. 

            Mr. Honeysucker is a member of Videmus, as well as member and co-founder of the Jubilee Trio, which presents American art songs, including those of under-performed African American composers.

            Discography includes performances on four Videmus discs:  "Music of William Grant Still" (New World), "Watch and Pray" (Koch International), "More Still" (Cambria), and Highway 1, USA (Wm. Grant Still) recently released by Albany Records.  Mr. Honeysucker is also featured on the Centaur, Ongaku and Titanic labels.  

            Robert Honeysucker is a member of the voice faculties at The Boston Conservatory, New England Conservatory Extension and The Longy School of Music.