PGMC welcomes the return of featured soloist Jennifer Gill for its spring concert – Reflections
PORTLAND – The Portland Gay Men’s Chorus (PGMC) will feature renowned mezzo-soprano Jennifer Gill during its spring concert – Reflections.
Ms. Gill is equally at home on the opera, concert, and musical-theater stages. Her roles with Portland Opera include Second Secretary to Mao in John Adams’ Nixon in China; Minerva in Il ritorni di
Ulisse in patria; and Squirrel/White Cat/Shepherd in L’enfant et les Sortilèges. She has been an active performer with the Portland Summer Festival and performed the role of Margret in the production of Wozzeck with the Astoria Music Festival. She held the role of Marian in Lakewood Theater’s production of Music Man. She also performed the roles of Nicklausse in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Hata in The Bartered Bride and Prince Orlovsky in Die Fledermaus with Indiana University Opera. In 2004, Ms. Gill was a Finalist in the prestigious Eleanor Lieber Awards. Past performances with the Chorus include the Holiday Concert of 2014, Angelina in Trial by Jury, and as a featured artist in PGMC’s salute to Diva’s at PRIDE 2016.
Ms. Gill will be reprising her role as the Mother in ‘Angels’ from BraveSouls & Dreamers, a role written specifically for Ms. Gill. She has been featured in every PGMC performance of the work since 2007, including the historic 2011 performance in New York City when PGMC took part in the 10-year commemoration of 9/11. She is thrilled to be back with PGMC as part of the chorus’s 40th anniversary concert – Reflections.
As a celebration of PGMC’s 40th Anniversary season, Reflections will be a retrospective that will feature some of the biggest musical moments of PGMC’s history, beginning with its current season and working backward to its very first concert in the spring of 1980. The concert will be on Saturday, March 21 at 8:00 pm and Sunday, March 22 at 3:00 pm in Kaul Auditorium at Reed College. Tickets are available online at www.pdxgmc.org or by calling the box office at 503-226-2588.
