Praised in Opera News as “a gentle actor and elegant musician,” Justin Austin brings his “mellifluous baritone” (The Wall Street Journal) to the Armory. Austin has worked with international opera companies such as Washington National Opera, The Metropolitan Opera, and Bayerische Staatsoper. Alongside Juilliard pianist, Howard Watkins, he will perform an intimate program in the Board of Officers Room featuring a series of art songs by Ricky Ian Gordon set to the poems of Langston Hughes as well as works by American composers including Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Kurt Weill, Damien Sneed, and more.
Program to include works by Ricky Ian Gordon, Margaret Bonds, Robert Owens, Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, William Bolcom, Kurt Weill, Hall Johnson, Shawn Okpebholo, Duke Ellington, and Damien Sneed.
