Tenor Jeffrey Thompson recently completed his studies in the College Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. His operatic repertoire includes Nerone in Monterverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea, Oronte in Handel's Alcina, Decio in the world premiere staging of Vivaldi's Ottone in villa, and the title role in Britten's Albert Herring. On the concert stage he has appeared as soloist in Monteverdi's Vespers della beata Vergine, Bach's Mass in B Minor, Mozart's Requiem and Haydn's The Creation. In the summer of 1998 he was soloist in Bach Cantatas at the Tanglewood Music Center under the baton of Seiji Ozawa. In September 2001 he received first place in the Concours International de Chant Baroque in Chimay, Belqium under the jurisdiction of William Christie. Since this time he has been engaged to sing recitals at the Handel Halle Festival and the Printemps festival of Baroque Music in Brussels. This November, he joins Christie and Les Arts Florissants in a newly formed group of young singers called Les Jardins Des Voix for a European tour performing operatic works from the 17th- and 18th-centuries. Mr. Thompson last appeared with the Handel and Haydn Society in Bach's B Minor Mass in 2002.

Jeffrey Thompson appears in Bach's St. Matthew Passion on April 21 and 23, 2006.

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