Americas Society
680 Park Avenue
New York
7:00 pm ET
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Jonathon Adams. (Image: Roey Yohai Studios)
Jonathon Adams: Wild thro’ the Woods
The Canadian baritone returns to our stage for an evening of music by Henry Purcell and his contemporaries featuring updated texts by Indigenous writers.
7:00 pm ET
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue
New York
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Overview
On February 28, we will host this concert in person. Tickets are free. Registration for Americas Society members is open now via the AS/COA Portal. Contact membership@as-coa.org with any questions. Registration for the general public will open 30 days before the event.
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Adams is back on our stage for an evening of music by Purcell and his contemporaries that focus on the land and water, including "‘Tis Nature’s Voice" and "O Solitude." These will share the bill with contemprary songs whose texts have been reimagined by Native writers, centering an Indigenous worldview, allowing the singer to reconcile performing colonially imported music on stolen land as an Indigenous artist. Adams will be joined by keyboardist Avi Stein and gambist Sarah Cunningham.
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About the Artist
Jonathon Adams is a Cree-Métis two-spirit baritone from amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton, Alberta). They have appeared as a soloist under Masaaki Suzuki, Philippe Herreweghe, Laurence Equilbey, and Alexander Weimann, among others. They have performed with the New York Philharmonic, National Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, and Toronto Symphony Orchestras, as well as the Washington Bach Consort, Tafelmusik, Ricercar Consort, B’Rock, Vox Luminis, the Netherlands Bach Society, and il Gardellino.
In 2021, they were named the first artist-in-residence at Early Music Vancouver. They have lectured and led workshops at the Universities of Toronto, Manitoba, British Columbia, and Alberta (Augustana), as well as Bard College, Festival Montréal Baroque, and the Juilliard School.
Adams was featured in Against the Grain Theatre’s 2020 film Messiah/Complex, in Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s Mea Culpa with Ballet Vlaanderen, and on Jessica McMann’s most recent album Prairie Dusk. They attended the Victoria Conservatory of Music, the Royal Academy of Music, and the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, studying with Nancy Argenta, Emma Kirkby, and Rosemary Joshua.
Funders
The MetLife Foundation Music of the Americas concert series is made possible by the generous support of Presenting Sponsor MetLife Foundation.
The 2024-2025 series is also supported, in part, by the Howard Gilman Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Mex-Am Cultural Foundation, the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, and Mid Atlantic Arts.
