Keith Jameson, tenor

Keith has enjoyed a 28-year career as a professional opera and concert singer. He has been heard nationally at the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Opera, New York City Opera, The Santa Fe Opera, and many others. Internationally, he has performed with Opera di Firenze at the Maggio Musicale, the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, Opera di Roma; Palau de Les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia; Spain; Massimo Theater, Palermo, Sicily; English National Opera in London; Royal Opera di Wallonie in Liege, Belgium; and at the Sejii Ozawa Matsumoto Festival in Japan. Mr. Jameson sang with Boston Baroque, in many performances of Handel’s Messiah, and in Haydn’s The Creation and Lord Nelson Mass, both commercially released on CD. He can be seen in Carmen and Falstaff, both on DVD with The Metropolitan Opera, and in the world premier of Mark Adamo’s Becoming Santa Claus, on DVD with Dallas Opera. He is featured in Peter Ash’s The Golden Ticket, recorded live with Atlanta Opera. Keith was the Founder and Director of the Greenwood Music Festival, and is the composer of the children’s opera Petunia, based on the book by Roger Duvoisin, which received it’s world premier in 2014. After 24 years in New York City, he relocated back to his hometown of Greenwood, SC in May, 2020. He is the Church Music Director at First Baptist Church of Greenwood. Keith is a graduate of Furman University and the Eastman School of Music. Keith is a new member of the Chorale and the Herring Ensemble.

Keith has enjoyed a 28-year career as a professional opera and concert singer. He has been heard nationally at the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Opera, New York City Opera, The Santa Fe Opera, and many others. Internationally, he has performed with Opera di Firenze at the Maggio Musicale, the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, Opera di Roma; Palau de Les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia; Spain; Massimo Theater, Palermo, Sicily; English National Opera in London; Royal Opera di Wallonie in Liege, Belgium; and at the Sejii Ozawa Matsumoto Festival in Japan. Mr. Jameson sang with Boston Baroque, in many performances of Handel’s Messiah, and in Haydn’s The Creation and Lord Nelson Mass, both commercially released on CD. He can be seen in Carmen and Falstaff, both on DVD with The Metropolitan Opera, and in the world premier of Mark Adamo’s Becoming Santa Claus, on DVD with Dallas Opera. He is featured in Peter Ash’s The Golden Ticket, recorded live with Atlanta Opera. Keith was the Founder and Director of the Greenwood Music Festival, and is the composer of the children’s opera Petunia, based on the book by Roger Duvoisin, which received it’s world premier in 2014. After 24 years in New York City, he relocated back to his hometown of Greenwood, SC in May, 2020. He is the Church Music Director at First Baptist Church of Greenwood. Keith is a graduate of Furman University and the Eastman School of Music. Keith is a new member of the Chorale and the Herring Ensemble.