A native of Los Angeles, bass-baritone Jason Grant has won acclaim for his elegantly expressive, richly hued voice.
This season Mr. Grant sings Beethoven Symphony No. 9 with Leonard Slatkin and the Detroit Symphony, Jacques Lacombe and the New Jersey Symphony, and Nir Kabaretti and the Santa Barbara Symphony. He returns to the Alabama Symphony for Handel’s Messiah with Neal Gittleman and to the Buffalo Philharmonic for Verdi’s Requiem with JoAnn Falletta.
In the 2009/10 season, Mr. Grant sang Beethoven Symphony No. 9 with the Houston Symphony and Louis Langrée, the Brahms German Requiem with JoAnn Falletta at both the Virginia Symphony and the Buffalo Philharmonic, and Mendelssohn’s Die erste Walpurgisnacht with Justin Brown and the Alabama Symphony. He joined Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony for Stravinsky’s Le Rossignol in Atlanta and on the road at the University of Georgia and at Carnegie Hall; sang the Mozart Requiem with Jahja Ling and the San Diego Symphony and with Hans Graf and the Houston Symphony, and both the Mozart Requiem and Zemlinsky’s Frühlingsbegrabnis with Michael Christie and the Phoenix Symphony. He also appeared with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, led by Roberto Abbado, for Stravinsky’s Pulcinella.
Other recent highlights include Mahler Symphony No. 8 for Lorin Maazel’s final concerts as music director of the New York Philharmonic, following concert performances of Tosca led by Maestro Maazel and a debut in the Bach St. Matthew Passion led by Kurt Masur; Mozart’s Mass in C Minor at the Mostly Mozart Festival, led by Louis Langrée; Don Fernando in Fidelio with the Saint Louis Symphony, led by David Robertson; the Bach Mass in B Minor with Andreas Delfs and the Milwaukee Symphony; and Beethoven Symphony No. 9 with the Grant Park Music Festival led by Carlos Kalmar.
Mr. Grant’s many performances with the New York City Opera include Pooh-Bah in Jonathan Miller’s production of The Mikado, Dulcamara in Miller's new production of L'elisir d'amore, Leporello in Don Giovanni, and Don Profondo in Il viaggio a Reims.
Career highlights include Angelotti in Tosca and Monterone in Rigoletto with the Seattle Opera; Bartolo in Le nozze di Figaro and Colline in La Bohème with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra; Antonio in Le Nozze di Figaro and student performances of Leporello in Don Giovanni and the Four Villains in Les contes d’Hoffmann with the Dallas Opera; Kurt Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins under Keith Lockhart with the Utah Symphony a Opera; Olin Blitch in Susannah led by James Conlon; Henry Kissinger in The Nixon Tapes led by John Adams at the Aspen Music Festival; Salieri in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Mozart and Salieri and the Mozart Requiem with the Virginia Symphony; and many appearances with the Opera Orchestra of New York, including Duglas in Rossini’s La donna del Lago at Carnegie Hall and his debut as Maurevert in Les Huguenots, acclaimed by the New York Times as “elegant and expressive.”
An alumnus of the Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Program, the Merola Program of the San Francisco Opera and the Steans Institute at Ravinia, Mr. Grant was the First Place winner of the 2000 Palm Beach Opera/Anton Guadagno Vocal Competition and the 1998 Dr. Loren Zachary Society Competition. Mr. Grant attended the Juilliard School and the Eastman School of Music, where he received the Performer’s Certificate.
