James Chi-shin Liu

Baritone
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Performance Calendar 2024-2025:

Masterworks Chorale Summer Sings, Cambridge, MA:

  • Mozart: Requiem in d, K.626 (completion by Süßmayr)
  • Role: Bass soloist
     
  • Kevin Leong, conductor
  • John Sullivan, accompanist
  • Tuesday, July 23, 2024 at 8:00 p.m., Grace Chapel, Lexington, MA
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    King's Chapel, Boston MA:

  • Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs (Herbert)
  • Heinrich Christensen, keyboard
  • Morning Prayer Worship Service, Sunday, August 11, 2024 at 11:00 a.m., King's Chapel Parish House, Boston, MA.
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    Cantata Singers, Boston MA:

    Boston Choral Festival

  • Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206 (Psalm 69(70):1, Psalm 109(110), Song of Songs 1:4, 2:10-12, Psalm 112(113), Song of Songs 6:3-4, Psalm 121(122), Isaiah 6:3 and 1 John 5:7, Psalm 126(127), Anon., Psalm 147, Marian litany, Anon. hymn, Luke 2:46-55, Doxology)
  • Role: Bass ensemble; Septimus / Bass 2 soloist (Laudate pueri); Quintus / Tenor 3 soloist (Duo seraphim); Tenor soloist (Ave maris stella, verse 6); Septimus / Bass 2 soloist (Magnificat à 7 voci, 4: Quia fecit)
  • with the choruses of Nipmuc Regional High School, Arlington High School, and Westborough High School
     
  • Noah Horn, conductor
  • Friday, October 25, 2024 at 7:30 p.m., The Cyclorama of Boston Center for the Arts, Boston MA
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    King's Chapel Concert Series, Boston MA:

    From Bach to Brahms: The History of the German Motet

  • Hassler: Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (Martin Luther after Psalm 46)
  • Schütz: Tröstet, tröstet mein Volk, SWV 382 (Isaiah 40:1-5)
  • J.S. Bach: Jesu, meine Freude, S. 227 (Johann Franck and Romans 8:1-2, 9-11)
  • Mendelssohn: Jauchzet dem Herrn, alle Welt, WoO 28 (Psalm 100)
  • Hensel: O Herbst, in linden Tagen (Eichendorff)
  • C. Schumann: Abendfeier in Venedig (Geibel)
  • Brahms: Warum ist das Licht gegeben dem Mühseligen?, Op. 74, No. 1 (after Job 3:1-26, Lamentations 3:41, James 5:11, and Luther)
  • Reger: Morgengesang, Op. 138, No. 2 (Zwick)
  • Rheinberger: Abendlied, Op. 69, No. 3 (Luke 24:29)
     
  • Heinrich Christensen, conductor
  • Sunday, October 27, 2024 at 5:00 p.m., King's Chapel, Boston, MA.

    • Grace Episcopal Church, Amherst MA:

  • Handel: Messiah, HWV 56: Choral Sing of Part I
  • Role: Bass soloist
     
  • Sunday, December 1, 2024 at 4:00 p.m., Grace Episcopal Church, Amherst MA
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    Cantata Singers, Boston MA:

    A Cantata Christmas

  • G. Gabrieli: Motet, O Jesu, mi dulcissime
  • G. Gabrieli: Antiphon, Hodie Christus natus est
  • J.S. Bach: Cantata, Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, S. 1 (after the chorale by Philipp Nicolai)
  • Mendelssohn: Motet, Ave Maria, Op. 23, No. 2 (after Luke 1:28, 42)
  • Dett: "O Holy Lord" (Text from J.B.T. Marsh, The Story of the Jubilee Singers)
  • Martin and Blaine, arr. Brandau: "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"
  • Trad. English, arr. Parker: "We Wish You a Merry Christmas"
  • Five Christmas Carols, arr. Willcocks:  
  • Noah Horn, conductor
     
  • Saturday, December 14, 2024 at 7:30 p.m., St. Paul's Parish, Cambridge MA
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    Opera51, Concord MA:

  • Mozart: Don Giovanni, K.527 (concert version, libretto by Da Ponte, after Tirso de Molina, spoken dialogue translated by Mandel)
  • Role: Leporello
     
  • Saturday, December 21 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, December 22 at 2:00 p.m., 51 Walden Performing Arts Center, Concord MA
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    King's Chapel Concert Series, Boston MA:

    The Poet's Voice: The Interaction of Poetry and Music

  • Kilstofte: Everyone's Voice (Sassoon)
  • Franklin: The Uncertainty of the Poet (Cope)
  • Christensen: I'm Nobody (Dickinson)
  • Ligaarden: Hope (Dickinson)
  • Lindberg: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day, from O Mistress Mine: A Garland of Elizabethan Poetry (Shakespeare: Sonnet 18)
  • Whalen: Beloved, thou has brought me many flowers (Browning: Sonnets from the Portuguese 44)
  • Garrop: O think not I am faitful to a vow!, from Sonnets of Vanity, Loss, and Rapture (Millay)
  • Gregg: Four Season Sonnets Op. 34 (Kreiling)
  • Ramsay: Songs of Love and Longing (Shirley, Lowell, Sassoon, Dickinson, Levertov)
     
  • Heinrich Christensen, conductor
  • Sunday, January 26, 2025 at 5:00 p.m., King's Chapel, Boston, MA.

    • Cantata Singers, Boston MA:

  • Scott Perkins: A Map to the Next World (Commission & World Premiere)
     
  • Noah Horn, conductor
     
  • Friday, March 14, 2025 at 7:30 p.m., Sanders Theare, Cambridge, MA
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    King's Chapel Concert Series, Boston MA:

  • Handel: Judas Maccabeus, HWV 63 (Morell, after 1 Maccabees 2-8)
  • Role: Bass chorus and Aria soloist, "The Lord Worketh Wonders"
     
  • Heinrich Christensen, conductor
  • Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 5:00 p.m., King's Chapel, Boston, MA.

    • Cantata Singers, Boston MA:

  • Joby Talbot: Path of Miracles (Robert Dickinson)
     
  • Friday, May 2, 2025 at 7:30 p.m., Saint Cecilia Parish, Boston, MA
  • Saturday, May 3, 2025, All Souls New York City
  • Sunday, May 4, 2025 at 4:00 p.m., St. Thomas's Episcopal Church, New Haven, CT
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    Opera51, Concord MA:

  • Sondheim: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Sondheim and Wheeler)
  • Role: Sweeney Todd
     
  • June 7-8, 2025, 51 Walden Performing Arts Center, Concord MA
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    Last updated: January 19, 2025
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