Jason Abrams is rapidly becoming one of the rising stars of the next generation of countertenors, enjoying continued acclaim for his stunning and nuanced performances. This season, he sings Nireno in Giulio Cesare with Florida Grand Opera and the Lyric Opera of Chicago, L’umana fragilita and Pisandro in Il ritorno d’Ulisse in a return to the Greenwich Music Festival, and joins the roster of New York City Opera for Purcell’s King Arthur.
     His oratorio experience also includes performances of Bach’s St. John Passion with the New Hampshire Master Chorale, Bernstein’s Choruses for the Lark with the Newton Choral Society, Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers with the Tiffany Consort, Messiah with the Catalina Chamber Orchestra, concerts of arias and duets with the Boston Civic Symphony, and Orff’s Carmina Burana at Tufts University. Tonight marks his Carnegie Hall debut.
     Jason Abrams received the John Moriarty encouragement award from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions’ New England Region. He is 2005 First Place winner of the Connecticut Opera Guild competition and in 2004 won First Place in the National Association of Teachers of Singing competition in the Boston Region and received an encouragement grant from the Fritz & Lavinia Jensen Foundation. In previous seasons, he has been a Fellow at the prestigious Tanglewood Music Center and a studio artist at Central City Opera where he received the Starkey Young Artists Award.