2009-10 Resident Artists
Resident Artists serve as ambassadors for the company, touching the community through participation in programs for public schools, community centers, libraries and corporate events. In addition to performing supporting roles, covering and sometimes performing principal roles in Pittsburgh Opera's mainstage productions, the Resident Artists gain valuable performance experience through regular Brown Bag concerts and special events, such as the annual Cabaret, and parties hosted by Pittsburgh Opera. They also perform all of the principal and supporting roles in a fully-staged Pittsburgh Opera production featuring the Resident Artists at CAPA Theater.
Click on the Resident Artists' names to see their biographies below:
 Dan Kempson, baritone
Baritone Dan Kempson is a first-year Pittsburgh Opera Resident Artist; he will sing Tarquinius in The Rape of Lucretia, Morales in Carmen and Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro Student Matinee.
He graduated with his Masters of Music from Manhattan School of Music in May 2009. Performances there included Gabriel von Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus, George Jones in Street Scene, soloist in Orff's Carmina Burana and Ronaldo Cabral in the NY premiere of John Musto's Later the Same Evening, a recording of which will be released on Albany Records.
Mr. Kempson received his Bachelors of Music in 2007 from Peabody Conservatory, where his roles included Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro and Carl-Magnus in A Little Night Music. Other previous performances include Belcore (cover) in The Elixir of Love with the Caramoor Festival, Papageno in The Magic Flute at the Seagle Music Colony, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte and John Brooke in Little Women with Intermezzo Opera Festival and Carmina Burana with the Yale Symphony Orchestra, Connecticut Master Chorale and New Choral Society of Scarsdale.
Among his awards are the 2007 Encouragement Award from Opera Index, Inc., Winner of 2009 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Boston District, Semifinalist in the 2009 Eleanor McCollum Competition of Houston Grand Opera and Finalist in the 2008 competitions of both the Oratorio Society of New York and Liederkranz Foundation.
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