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HANDEL MESSIAH
“opera powerhouse,” Sidney Outlaw was
the Grand Prize-winner of the Concurso
Internacional de Canto Montserrat
Caballe in 2010 and continues to delight
audiences in the U.S. and abroad. A
graduate of the Merola Opera Program
and the Gerdine Young Artist Program at
Opera Theatre of St. Louis, the American
baritone from Brevard, NC recently
added a Grammy nomination to his list of
accomplishments for the Naxos Records
recording of Milhaud’s 1922 opera trilogy,
L’Orestie d’Eschyle, in which he sang the
role of Apollo.
Last season included Outlaw's Dandini
in La Cenerentola with Greensboro
Opera; appearances with the Charlotte
Symphony, Bridgehampton Chamber
Music and Colour of Music festivals; his
Spoleto Festival debut as Jake in Porgy
and Bess; and Madison Opera’s Opera
in the Park.
Outlaw has been a featured recitalist
with Warren Jones at Carnegie Hall
and performed Elijah with the New
York Choral Society. He traveled to
Guinea as an Arts Envoy with the
U.S. State Department, where he
performed a program of American
music in honor of Black History
Month and in remembrance of Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Outlaw made his English National
Opera debut in the 2011–12 season as
Rambo in The Death of Klinghoffer and
joined the Metropolitan Opera roster in
2014–15, also for The Death of Klinghoffer.
Recent engagements include Dallapiccola’s
Il Prigioniero with the New York
Philharmonic and Guglielmo in Mozart’s
Cosi fan tutte with North Carolina
Opera. Other roles include Figaro in Il
barbiere di Siviglia with Atlanta Opera,
Malcolm in Malcolm X at New York City
Opera, Ariodante in Handel’s Xerxes and
Demetrius in Britten’s A Midsummer
Night’s Dream for the International
Vocal Arts Institute, Papageno in Die
Zauberflöte and a sensational international
debut as Guglielmo in Così fan tutte in
both Germany and Israel.
A sought-after concert singer and
recitalist, Outlaw made his Schwabacher
Recital debut at the San Francisco Opera
center with pianist John Churchwell. His
concert and recital appearances include
Haydn’s The Creation and Handel’s
Messiah at Carnegie Hall, Beethoven’s
Symphony No. 9 at Avery Fisher Hall,
Mahler’s Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen
with Music Academy of the West and
“Wednesday At One” at Alice Tully Hall,
as John Stevens in the world-premiere
concert of H. Leslie Adam’s opera Blake
at the Schomburg Center for Research in
Black Culture in Harlem and the world
premiere of Wayne Oquin’s A Time to
Break Silence: Songs inspired by the Words
and Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr.,
commissioned by The Juilliard School.
Outlaw won Second Prize in the Walter
W. Naumburg Foundation’s International
Competition and in the 2011 Gerda
Lissner Foundation Awards, National
semi-finalist in the Metropolitan Opera
National Council Auditions, finalist in
both Concours International Musical de
Montreal and George London Foundation
and grand prize in the Florida Grand
Opera/YPO Vocal Competition. He
holds a Bachelor in Music Performance
degree from the University of North
Carolina at Greensboro and a Master
of Vocal Performance degree from The
Julliard School.
Sidney Outlaw last appeared with the BSO in
December 2017, performing Handel’s Mes-
siah, Edward Polochick, conductor.
Concert Artists of Baltimore
Founded by Edward Polochick,
Concert Artists of Baltimore (CAB),
a professional chamber orchestra and
professional chamber chorus, enjoyed 31
illustrious seasons as one of the region’s
premier performing organizations. The
Symphonic Chorale’s performances in the
BSO’s Messiah will be the organization’s
celebratory finale concert. CAB wishes to
thank the community for more than three
decades of support.
The CAB orchestra and chorus
were frequently hired for performances
throughout the region by other
organizations, including the Baltimore
Symphony Orchestra, the Lyric Opera
Baltimore, Moscow Ballet, the Baltimore
Basilica, Temple Oheb Shalom, Johns
Hopkins Medical Institutions, McDaniel
College, St. Louis Church, The Holocaust
Museum, The Visionary Arts Museum,
The Greek Orthodox Church of St.
George, Ballet Theatre of Maryland and
Catholic Charities. When more musicians
were needed, such as when the singers of
Concert Artists perform Messiah with the
BSO each year, the chorus expanded to the
Concert Artists Symphonic Chorale. The
2015–16 season featured a collaboration
with the Baltimore Rock Opera Society at
the inaugural Light City Baltimore festival.
The mission of Concert Artists of
Baltimore was to present classical music
performances of well-known and lesser-
known composers by an elite professional
chorus and chamber orchestra, thus
providing a visceral music experience
to audiences in the Greater Baltimore
Metropolitan Area. In 2015, Concert
Artists of Baltimore was one of 20
Baltimore arts organizations chosen by
the DeVos Institute through a competitive
application process to participate in the
“Capacity Building Baltimore” program.
The Concert Artists of Baltimore Symphonic
Chorale last appeared with the BSO in
December 2017, performing Handel’s
Messiah, Edward Polochick, conductor.
About the Concert
MESSIAH
George Frideric Handel
Born in Halle, Germany, February 23, 1685,
died in London, England, April 14, 1759
Handel’s great oratorio Messiah has
become such a beloved musical icon in
the nearly 270 years since its birth in
1741 that it is not at all surprising that

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