Fall Concert: Featuring All GCYO Ensembles + Vocalists John and Shannon Dooley

Join us for a concert that features all the talented students of Greenville County Youth Orchestras (GCYO) led by conductors Neil Casey, Rachelle Emory, Patrick Murch, and Kathy Robinson. The ensembles include Prelude, Intermezzo, Philharmonic, and Young Artist Orchestra. They will perform a wide variety of orchestral music. There will be something for everyone.

We are excited to welcome John and Shannon Dooley, vocalists who will sing favorite arias from famous operas with the Young Artist Orchestra. This will be a special treat for the students and for the audience alike. Read more about them below.

Greenville County Youth Orchestras, celebrating more than 50 years of music making, is an educational program for students in Greenville who play an orchestral instrument. Find out more information at gcyo.net. Auditions are held every spring in May. GCYO rehearses weekly during the school year at the Fine Arts Center and at League Academy.

Greenville County Youth Orchestras Association is a local arts non profit organization that receives support from the Greenville County School District, Metropolitan Arts Council, the South Carolina Arts Commission, and private donations from friends of the organization. Thank you for making this concert possible!

Baritone John Dooley has been praised by the The Wall Street Journal as “a warm, supple baritone” He is an outstanding crossover singer whose opera talent equals his fl air for musical theater. Career Highlights include Emmy nominated Carousel with the New York Philharmonic Live from Lincoln Center, Badger the Miner in Tobias Picker’s Grammy nominated Fantastic Mr. Fox with Odyssey Opera/Boston Modern Orchestra Project, World premieres of Lysander in Michael Ching’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Opera Memphis/Playhouse on the Square (recorded on Albany Records), Johnny in Todd Goodman’s Night of the Living Dead with Microscopic Opera & American premiere of Ashmodeus in Jonathan Dove’s Tobias and the Angel with Opera Vivente. He has performed with Portland Opera, Opera San Antonio, Tulsa Opera, Amarillo Opera, Opera Roanoke, First Coast Opera, Opera Theater of Connecticut, Central City Opera, Lake George Opera, Opera Wilmington, Utah Symphony, Alexandria Symphony, Sanibel Music Festival, Jacksonville Symphony, The Florida Orchestra, Chattanooga Symphony & Opera & Arizona Broadway Theatre. www.johndooleybaritone.com

Known for her lyricism and expressiveness, Shannon Kessler Dooley’s most recent operatic credits include; Violetta (La Traviata) First coast Opera, Musetta (La Boheme) North Carolina Opera, The title role of Tosca, and Suor Angelica, Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) and Rosalinda (Die Fledermaus) with Opera Wilmington, Cio Cio San (Madama Butterfly) with Chattanooga Symphony and Opera, Opera Theater of Connecticut, First Coast Opera, and Erie Chamber Orchestra, Biancofiore cover (Francsca da Rimini), Alice cover (Le Comte Ory) with The Metropolitan Opera, Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) with Erie Chamber Orchestra, Mimì (La Bohème) with Opera Theater of Connecticut, Narcissa (Philemon and Baucis) with the Spoleto Festival USA, Sister Constance (Dialogues of the Carmelites), Almirena (Rinaldo), Nannetta (Falstaff), Frasquita (Carmen), Lucia (Rape of Lucretia), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro, youth performance ) with Pittsburgh Opera, Marzeline (Fidelio), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), and Clorinda (La Cenerentola) with Utah Opera, Micaëla, (Carmen) with Opera Theater of Pittsburgh. Concert credits include soprano solos in the Messiah, Peer Gynt, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, Mozart Requiem, Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, Ravel’s Sheherazade, and Schubert Mass in G, with Utah Symphony, Erie Philharmonic, Asheville Symphony, Erie Chamber Orchestra, Long Bay Symphony and Wilmington Choral Society.