Tenor | Professor of Voice | Musicologist
Recent & Upcoming Performances & Conferences
24 February 2015
English Song & German Lied –– Recital
Justin Vickers, tenor & Tuyen Tonnu, piano
Song-cycles of Ludwig van Beethoven, Priaulx Rainier, Benjamin Britten, Ivor Gurney, and Arnold Schoenberg
Kemp Recital Hall, Illinois State University
Normal, Illinois
10 March 2015
"In Flander's Fields" –– 1915: Music, Memory, and the Great War Centenary Conference
Justin Vickers, tenor & Geoffrey Duce, piano
Christina Bashford | Bill Brooks | Gayle Sherwood Magee (Convenors)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
13 March 2015
Benjamin Britten –– Nocturne for tenor, seven obligato instruments, and strings
Britten –– "Now sleeps the crimson petal"
Ian Hobson, Conductor
Sinfonia da Camera
Great Hall, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
Urbana, Illinois
22 March 2015
J.S. Bach –– St. Matthew's Passion (Evangelist)
St. Matthew Passion: Drama, Religion, and the Baroque (Symposium)
Elyse Nelson-Winger, Chaplain | Adriana Ponce, Musicologist
Illinois Wesleyan University Chamber Players and Festival Choir
Evelyn Chapel
Bloomington, Illinois
31 March 2015
Steven Stucky –– The Stars and the Roses (2013), for tenor and sextet
Justin Vickers, tenor
RED NOTE New Music Festival – with Guest Artist Steven Stucky
Kemp Recital Hall, Illinois State University
Normal, Illinois
3 April 2015
Jonathan Green –– Amore cieco (2014)*
Justin Vickers, tenor & R. Kent Cook, piano
*world première performance of a song-cycle of Michelangelo poetry
RED NOTE New Music Festival
Kemp Recital Hall, Illinois State University
Normal, Illinois
12 April 2015
"Cycle for Declamation" (John Donne), Priaulx Rainier
Justin Vickers, tenor (unaccompanied song cycle)
Aldeburgh Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Aldeburgh, Suffolk, United Kingdom
14 April 2015
RECITAL: Justin Vickers, tenor & Lucy Walker, piano
Song-cycles of Benjamin Britten, Michael Tippett, and Judith Weir –– Lecture-Recital
Aldeburgh Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Aldeburgh, Suffolk, United Kingdom
*Sponsored as part of the "Britten's Words" Temporary Exhibition of the Britten-Pears Foundation
16 April 2015
RECITAL: Justin Vickers, tenor & Lucy Walker, piano
Song-cycles of Ivor Gurney, Benjamin Britten, Priaulx Rainier, Michael Tippett, and Judith Weir
"The State We're In": Directions in Researching Post-1900 British Music (Convenor: Christopher Mark)
Ivy Arts Centre, University of Surrey
Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom
17 April 2015
PAPER: Justin Vickers
"Continentalism and Darkness in Benjamin Britten’s Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente"
"The State We're In": Directions in Researching Post-1900 British Music (Convenor: Christopher Mark)
University of Surrey
Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom
3 May 2015
RECITAL: Justin Vickers, tenor & R. Kent Cook, piano
Song-cycles of Ludwig van Beethoven, Benjamin Britten, Michael Tippett, and John Harbison
Central Christian Church Recital Series
Indianapolis, Indiana
1, 3 November 2019
Michael Tippett – A Child of Our Time
Justin Vickers, tenor
Karyl Carlson, Conductor
Illinois State University Symphony Orchestra and Concert Choir
Concert Hall, Center for the Performing Arts
Illinois State University
Normal, Illinois