Soloists
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Harold Brock |
Tenor Harold “Hoss” Brock divides his time among opera, oratorio, and professional ensembles in Chicago and around the world. Operatic credits include the Majordomo of the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier at the San Francisco Opera; Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni with the Pine Mountain Music Festival; Count Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia with L’Opera Piccola; and Ramiro in Rossini’s La Cenerentola with the San Francisco Opera’s prestigious Merola Opera Program.
Active as a soloist, Mr. Brock has made numerous solo appearances with the Grant Park Music Festival, including in the August 2008 “Great Opera Choruses” program, Poulenc’s Gloria, and Rachmaninov’s Vespers. He also appears regularly as a soloist with Bach Week, with whom he has performed Bach’s St. John Passion, Magnificat, and Easter Oratorio. He was also featured in Haydn’s Die Schöpfung at Moravian College in Bethlehem, PA, Brahms’s Liebeslieder Waltzer with the Chicago Chamber Musicians, and made his Carnegie Hall debut in
Handel’s Messiah.
Most recently, Mr. Brock has performed as soloist in Music of the Baroque’s recent “French Connection” program; Mozart’s Requiem with the New Philharmonic and Northwest Indiana Symphonies; Bach’s B Minor Mass with Chorus Angelorum; and Schubert’s Mass in G and Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass with Elgin Choral Union. After making his début with the Newberry Consort in 2007, Mr. Brock will return to sing with the ensemble in their February 2009 program, “Venetian Music for Fat Tuesday and Ash Wednesday.” Mr. Brock is also a member of Chicago a cappella, for whom he made a voices-only arrangement of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody.