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Edmund Milly (Bass-Baritone) |
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Born: June 1987 - Pennington, New Jersey, USA |
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The American bass-baritone, Edmund J. Milly, began his musical education with cello lessons at age 3. While at the American Boychoir School in Princeton, New Jersey from 1997 to 2001, he amassed formative musical experiences under the batons of Seiji Ozawa, Kurt Masur, James Levine, and André Previn, and gained early exposure to pieces which remain in his repertoire to this day. He received his Bachelor of Music with Distinction from McGill University in Montreal. He also holds a Bachelor of Art and Master of Arts degree from McGill in English Literature (Septembere 2011-August 2013), contributing to his uncommonly keen interpretive capabilities. These eclectic experiences led him to the Yale Institute of Sacred Music in New Haven, Connecticut, where he received an Master of Music degree as a member of the elite Yale Voxtet and a student of James Taylor (September 2013-May 2015). Yale Schola Cantorum provided the perfect proving ground to hone his craft under the direction of David Hill, Simon Carrington, and Masaaki Suzuki.
In his Lincoln Center debut under Masaaki Suzuki, Edmund Milly portrayed an "authoritative and confident" Jesus in J.S. Bach's St. John Passion (BWV 245) (Seen and Heard International). Since then, he has sung the role of Jesus with Trinity Wall Street, the Oregon Bach Festival, and several other organizations.
Edmund Milly brings “perfect diction” (Los Angeles Times) and “mellifluous” tone (San Francisco Chronicle) to every performance. He was a chorister at St. Thomas's Episcopal Church in New Haven, Connecticut (September 2013-May 2015). Based in New York, he sings with the Grammy-nominated Trinity Wall Street Choir (Director: Julian Wachner) (since May 2015), and is a founding member of Trident Ensemble (since September 2014). Equally at home as a soloist or in ensembles of the highest caliber, he has recently performed with the Mark Morris Dance Group, the Clarion Choir, Cantata Profana, Antico Moderno, New York Baroque Incorporated, and Grand Harmonie, and has contributed solos to various international radio broadcasts on BBC and CBC. An alumnus of the American Boychoir School, McGill University, and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, Edmund interprets music both ancient and modern with an expressivity founded in scholarly rigor.
Edmund Milly has demonstrated 16th-century contrapuntal improvisation techniques in Venice with Viva Voce, and performed Russian liturgical music to wildly enthusiastic Russian audiences in a Clarion Choir tour sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. From Arrigoni to Jan Dismas Zelenka, he has relished an unusual number of opportunities to perform obscure early music gems, yet he also remains an intrepid explorer of vocal repertoire outside of his "Western art music" comfort zone; on tours with Northern Harmony, he has brought stylistically authentic early American hymnody and vocal folk polyphony from Bulgaria, Georgia, Corsica, and South Africa to audiences all over Europe. In a strange twist of fate, he has even sung 140 of Elvis Presley's greatest hits - in alphabetical order - with Quebecois pop phenom Gregory Charles for a crowd of thousands at the Festival Mondial Choral de Laval. He currently lives in Newark, New Jersey. |
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Sources:
Edmund Milly Website & Facebook profile
Photos 01-04: Photo by Alana Pipe; Photos 05: James Taylor; Photo 06: Emily Ding; Photo 07: Patrick Connolly
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (December 2017) |
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Recordings of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works |
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Conductor |
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Works |
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Joseph Arndt |
Bass |
[CV-2] (2023, Video): BWV 4 [1st recording], BWV 10 [1st recording]
[CV-3] (2023, Video): BWV 158, BWV 4 [2nd recording] |
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Joseph Arndt |
Bass |
Member of Oklahoma Bach Choir:
[CV-2] (2022, Video): BWV 4 [1st recording], BWV 10 [1st recording] |
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Bálint Karosi |
Bass |
[VV-3] (2018, Video): BWV 244 [Jesus, Arias] |
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Bálint Karosi |
Bass |
Member of Saint Peter's Church Choir:
[VV-3] (2018, Video): BWV 244 |
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Anthony Blake Clark |
Bass |
Member of Bach Choir of Holy Trinity:
BVHT [C55-1] (2022, Video): BWV 80
BVHT [C55-10] (2023, Video): BWV 249 [solo] |
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Jordan de Souza |
Bass |
[V-2] (2012, Video): BWV 244 |
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Alex Underwood |
Bass |
Member of Vocal ensemble:
[V-1] (2018, Video): BWV 244 |
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Julian Wachner |
Bass |
[BO-43] (2015, Video): BWV 25, BWV 28
[BO-44] (2015, Video): BWV 20
[BO-45] (2015, Video): BWV 13
[BO-46] (2015, Video): BWV 114
[BO-47] (2015, Video): BWV 73
[BO-49] (2015, Video): BWV 121
[BO-50] (2016, Video): BWV 179
[BO-51] (2016, Video): BWV 167
[BO-52] (2016, Video): BWV 136
[BO-53] (2016, Video): BWV 176
[BO-56] (2016, Video): BWV 164
[BO-58] (2016, Video): BWV 138
[BO-59] (2016, Video): BWV 184
[SA-1] (2018, Video): BWV 173, BWV 184
[BO-81] (2018, Video): BWV 164, BWV 45
[BO-83] (2018, Video): BWV 79, BWV 117
[BO-82] (2018, Vid): BWV 106, BWV 152
[BO-84] (2018, Video): BWV 104, BWV 6 |
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Links to other Sites |
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Edmund Milly, Bass-Baritone (Official Website)
Edmund Milly on Facebook |
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