Senior Voice Recital – Aaron Rishel, baritone

PROGRAM

Im Frühling – Franz Schubert

Ganymed – Franz Schubert

Sonntag – Johannes Brahms

Deh vieni alla finestra from Don Giovanni – W.A. Mozart

La ci darem la mano from Don Giovanni – W.A. Mozart

with Tiffani Jernigan, soprano

When I was One and Twenty – George Butterworth

Is My Team Ploughing from Six Songs from a Shropshire Lad – George Butterworth

I Never Knew from AIDS Quilt Songbook – Ricky Ian Gordon

Walt Whitman in 1989 from AIDS Quilt Songbook – Chris DeBlasio

Avant de quitter ces lieux from Faust – Charles Gounod

Agony from Into the Woods – Steven Sondheim

with Ricky Dubuisson II, baritone

Losing My Mind from Follies – Steven Sondheim

BIOGRAPHY

Aaron Rishel is a senior studying vocal performance at The W. Aaron was very active performing in musical theatre for the past decade on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.  He was a student of Westley Hodges for voice, piano, and saxophone; Brandon Ring for voice, MGCCC Perkinston Campus; and currently studies under the tutelage of Dr. Susan Hurley.

He enjoyed attending the Junior Theater Festival in Atlanta for many years and working with iTheatrics in New York City during the summers helping to make musicals into versions for students. Aaron was also cast with iTheatrics All-Star National JTF Europe Cast and performed at the inaugural JTF Europe, Birmingham, UK, in May 2019.

Aaron would like to thank everyone who has supported him throughout his endeavors.

This recital is given in partial fulfillment of degree requirements for the Bachelor of Arts in Music (Performance).

Aaron Rishel is from the studio of Dr. Susan Hurley.