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The American tenor, Eric Finbarr Carey, studied the voice at Manhattan School of Music Precollege (Class of 2011). He obtained his Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance from the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University (September 2011-May 2015); was Vocal Arts Fellowship recipient in Bard's Vocal Arts Program and obtained his Master of Music degree in Voice Performance/Opera from Bard College (September 2016-May 2018); and was Resident Artist at Boston University Opera Institutes (2018-2020). He has held residencies in the Renée Fleming Song Studio at Carnegie Hall (2020), the Britten-Pears Festival Young Artist Program (2019, 2020), and Tanglewood Music Center as a two time fellow (2018, 2019). At Tanglewood, working extensively with Dawn Upshaw, Margo Garrett, and Alan Smith. As a second-year fellow, he was featured in the American premiere of Richard Ayres’s The Cricket Recovers conducted by Thomas Adés and a concert of J.S. Bach's Cantatas with John Harbison. Awards include 2nd place in the 2022 Oratorio Society of New York competition, 2nd place in the Gerda Lissner Song Competition, the Grand Finals at the Joy in Singing Competition, and 1st Place at both the Sparks and Wiry Cries Song Slam Competition and the Bard College Conservatory of Music Concerto Competition. He also received a grant from Boston University as one of the winners of the 2020 Kahn award.
Eric Carey made notable debuts in the 2020-2021 season on both the concert and operatic stages. He appeared as the tenor soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Andris Nelsons in L.v. Beethoven's Choral Fantasy (2019), with Emmanuel Music in J.S. Bach's Mass in B minor BWV 232, and Odyssey Opera with a “very strong performance”(Gramophone UK) which was “an oasis of lyricism” (Bachtrack) in the world premiere of The Chronicle of Nine.
A specialist in the music of Benjamin Britten, last fall Carey sang in two of his operas: the role of Peter Quint in The Turn of the Screw with Opera Baltimore (2022), and the Tempter in Enigma Opera’s The Prodigal Son, as well as concert performances with Boston Symphony Orchestra Chamber Players in B. Britten's Canticle V (2022). This spring he will sing Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings with Concerts in the Village. He was a two time fellow at the Britten-Pears Programme in Aldeburgh, UK with mentorship from Mark Padmore and Roderick Williams.
Last season (2022-2023) in concert Eric Carey was the tenor soloist in J.S. Bach's Johannes-Passion BWV 245 with Princeton Pro Musica conducted by Maestro Ryan Brandau (2023) where he was “An exceptional soloist…who was particularly expressive and found a great deal of dynamic range” (TownTopics), and Evangelist in the same piece with Bach in Baltimore (2023). As a 2022-2023 resident artist with Bach in Baltimore he sang as tenor soloist in various J.S. Bach's Cantatas, and presented two solo recitals with the group. He was tenor soloist in the world premiere of the lost mass of Orlandini and George Frideric Handel's Dixit Dominus with Upper Valley Baroque, where he returned last spring as soloist in Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610. He performed and recorded the world premiere of Andrew Faulkenberry’s oratorio The Crooked Cross in 2023. An Avid recitalist with “captivating vocal quality”(Operawire), he sang a series of solo recitals with pianist partner Bethany Pietroniro in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and the Hudson Valley, and will also presented a recital of Monteverdi, G.F. Handel, Caccini and Air de Cour with Theorbist Richard Stone of Tempesta di Mare.
Other performances include B. Britten's Les illuminations with The Orchestra Now (2018), and Tom Rakewell in Igor Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress (2020), Alfredo in La traviata, Thibodeau in Dolores Claiborne (2019) and Schoolmaster in The cunning little vixen (2019) with the Opera Institute at Boston University, where he was in residence.
Noted for his “silken tenor”(Opera News), Eric Finbarr Carey continues the 2023-2034 season with notable debuts and reengagements. In the 2023-2024 season he makes his main stage debut at Carnegie Hall as tenor soloist in W.A. Mozart's Requiem and J.S. Bach's Magnificat in D major BWV 243 with The Oratorio Society of New York, and will sing J.S. Bach's Magnificat in D major BWV 243 again this Spring with The St. Agnes Cathedral. He reprises the roles of Tom Rakewell in The Rake’s Progress in Fargo, North Dakota, Evangelist in J.S. Bach's Johannes-Passion BWV 245 with Upper Valley Baroque, led by Filippo Ciabatti, and will sing the role of Florestan in a concert version of L.v. Beethoven's Fidelio with Concerts in the Village (November 2023). He currently lives in Tivoli, New York. |
