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The American tenor, Leslie Wayne Green, obtained his Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance from Ball State University (1988-2003).
Leslie Green is in high demand as a soloist in the Northwest. Highly praised for his seemingly effortless, expressive singing, he performs a wide variety of literature ranging from Bach arias to contemporary art songs. He has appeared throughout the Northwest with many of the finest ensembles and events including Oregon Repertory Singers, Portland Symphonic Choir, Annas Bay Music Festival, Mount Angel Abbey, Willamette Master Chorus, Eclectic Orange Festival in Orange County California, Rose City Chamber Orchestra, Cascade Music Festival, Northwest Mahler Festival, Salem Chamber Orchestra, Festival Chorale Oregon, Columbia Chorale and numerous Church concerts and music series.
Leslie Green's recent engagements have included singing on the Utrecht Early Music Festival in Holland with Cappella Romana and subsequent tours to Boston, New York and Ottowa. He also sang in the world premiere of Maximillian Steinberg's Passion Week with Cappella Romana. He has also had several highly praised performances of George Frideric Handel's Messiah, an enthusiastically received performance of Schubert's landmark song cycle Winterreise, a "brilliant" recital of L.v. Beethoven and Robert Schumann with the incomparable Jean-David Coen at the piano, the role of Victory in Hildegard von Bingen's Ordo Virtutem, the lead role of the Stage Manager in the Northwest Premiere of Ned Rorem's Opera Our Town at Willamette University, Haydn's Creation with Bravo! Vancouver and Willamette Master Chorus, Benjamin Britten's Les Illuminations and Serenade with Salem Chamber Orchestra, numerous other concert tours with Cappella Romana including trips to London, New York, Washington D.C., Los Angeles and an appearance on the prestigious Music before 1800 series in New York, as Alfredo in La Traviata and Don Jose in Georges Bizet's Carmen with Opera Theater of Oregon, as the Evangelist in Heinrich Schütz' St. John Passion with Portland Vocal Consort, the Premiere of Robert Kyr's A Time for Life with Cappella Romana and as the primary tenor soloist for the Bach Cantata Series at S. James Lutheran Church in Portland, Oregon.
Leslie Green resides in Vancouver Washington with his wife and daughter. He maintains a private voice studio and teaches studio voice and vocal pedagogy at Willamette University (Visiting Professor of Music: September 2009-February 2022), studio voice at Pacific University (Adjunct Faculty: August 2011-Februar 2022), studio voice with Concordia University Portland (Adjunct Faculty: August 2011-Februar 2022) and is sought after for master-classes and adjudications. |
