Red Campion: 2011

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Red Campion Reaches Over 1000 Students in Cambridge, OH

Cambridge City School District, and the Cambridge Concert Association, hosted Red Campion on Monday, October 10. In two performances at the Scottish Rite Auditorium, the ensemble performed selections from opera, musical theatre, and American folk song for all of the elementary students in Cambridge City Schools. The children enthusiastically joined in the singing as Brian Keith Johnson performed the "Toreador Song" from Bizet's opera Carmen. The students learned the refrain "Toreador, en garde", and a few brave children even acted out the part of the bull as Brian thrilled the audience with his performance of the aria in English.

Intergenerational Outreach - Red Campion, Judson Choristers, and Booker Elementary

Red Campion is an energetic ensemble of four singers and one pianist: soprano Lara Troyer, a beautiful lyric coloratura soprano who currently serves on the faculty of Kent State University; Denise Milner Howell, a charming mezzo-soprano who is an active performer of operatic and musical theater works and a voice teacher at Ashland University; vibrant tenor Timothy Culver, an Assistant Professor of Voice at Kent State University’s Hugh A. Glauser School of Music who is known throughout northern Ohio for his stage roles; versatile baritone Brian Johnson who teaches music in the Akron Public School System and has performed throughout the United States and Italy; and pianist Judith Ryder who was the founding Director of Cleveland Opera’s well-known education and outreach program and is currently the Manager of the Cleveland Arts Education Consortium at Cleveland State University.