 
Tenor Don Frazure is a native of Mississippi. Mr. Frazure made his New
York debut at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall singing the tenor solos in
the New York première of Samuel Adler's oratorio, Choose Life (Albany
Records, April 1999). Last summer, he made his debut with the National
Symphony at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., singing Mozart’s
Mass in C minor and excerpts of Cosi fan tutte with Christopher
Hogwood conducting. Mr. Frazure is currently finishing his tenure as a
Young Artist with the Juilliard Opera Center where he has sung such
diverse roles as Ferrando in Così fan tutte, Renaud in Gluck’s Armide
and Male Chorus in Britten’s The Rape of
Lucretia.Mr. Frazure is the 1999 first prize winner of the Licia
Albanese-Puccini Foundation International Voice Competition. Other competition awards
include the Liederkranz Foundation Awards of New York and the
Madame Rose Palmai-Tensor Competition of the Mobile Opera Guild of
Mobile, Alabama. He was also a finalist for the Lyric Opera Center for
American Artists at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. In 1995, Mr. Frazure
received a governor’s award from the Southern Region of the National
Association of Teachers of Singing. Mr. Frazure's opera roles include Ferrando in Mozart’s Così fan
tutte, Don Ottavio in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Renaud in Gluck’s Armide, Male
Chorus in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia, Count Almaviva in Rossini’s Il
Barbiere di Siviglia, Lenski in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene
Onegin, El Remendado in Bizet's Carmen. His concert and oratorio roles include
Bach's Mass in B minor and Magnificat, Handel's Messiah,
Mendelssohn's Hymn of Praise, Mozart's Requiem, Coronation Mass,
and Mass in C minor, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Verdi’s Requiem
and Adler's Choose Life. Mr. Frazure holds the bachelor of music degree in vocal performance and
a performer’s certificate in voice from William Carey College, as well as
master of music degree in vocal performance from the University of
Southern Mississippi. Mr. Frazure currently studies with Daniel Ferro in
New York and is managed by Columbia Artists Management Inc.
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