Vocal Arts DC: Tenor Jonah Hoskins & Pianist William Woodard

• Jonah Hoskins, tenor
• William Woodward, piano

This young tenor with a sunny, boyishly extroverted personality and voice to match joined the Metropolitan Opera's prestigious Lindemann Young Artist Development Program in 2020 immediately after winning the company's National Council Auditions as a college senior that same year. Having already appeared with the Met in the iconic leading role of Nemorino in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore this season, he reprises it for his San Francisco Opera debut this coming fall and makes his European debut in Rossini's Il viaggio a Reims at Dresden's Semper Oper. He makes his area recital debut under the auspices of Vocal Arts DC's Gerald Perman Emerging Artists Fund in a program with pianist William Woodard featuring songs by Jake Heggie, Lee Hoiby, and Erik Satie.

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About Jonah Hoskins, tenor

Born in 1996 in Saratoga Springs in Utah, Hoskins made his operatic debut as the First Spirit in The Magic Flute and continued performing the roles of Tamino (The Magic Flute), Fenton (Falstaff), Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi) and Septimius (Theodora). The role of Don Curzio (Le nozze di Figaro) took him to the Santa Fe Opera where he also sang Flute (A Midsummer Night's Dream) in 2020.

In 2021/22 Jonah made his role debut in Massenet's Cendrillon as the Dean of Faculty at the Metropolitan Opera. The role debut of Count Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia) takes him to Pensacola Opera and Santa Fe Opera where he will additionally sing the role of the Sailor in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde. The tenor will further perform a lied recital at the Sun Valley Opera, Idaho.

Jonah Hoskins has participated in various well known young artist programs as Des Moines Metro Opera, Ohio Light Opera, and HGO's Young Artist Vocal Academy. Moreover, he has been celebrated in acclaimed international competitions: In autumn 2021 he was awarded with the second prize at Placido Domingo's Operalia Competition at the Bolshoi Theatre and received the Extraordinary Artistic Promise Award at the Lotte Lenya Competition, and placed first in the National Opera Association in 2019.

About William Woodward, piano

William Woodard is a pianist, vocal coach, and conductor based in Houston, TX. He joins the music staff of Houston Grand Opera this season where he will be assisting on Falstaff, Parsifal, Big Swim, and The Sound of Music. William has previously served on music staff at the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Washington National Opera and New Orleans Opera. Last season he joined the Met Music Staff under the baton of Daniele Callegari for La Traviata and covered the on-stage role of Boleslao Lazinski in their new production of Fedora.