Grant Knox, tenor and David Gross, piano

Doors open at 7:00 PM | Concert begins at 7:30 PM

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Winterreise (Winter Journey), Op. 89

Franz Schubert | Poems by Wilhelm Müller

Winterreise is a song cycle written by Franz Schubert in 1827, just a year before his death. It’s made up of 24 songs for voice and piano, all based on poems by Wilhelm Müller. Together, they tell the story of a heartbroken wanderer who sets out alone through a cold, wintry landscape after being rejected by the one he loved.

Winterreise is considered one of the greatest works ever written for voice and piano. Even though it was composed nearly 200 years ago, it still speaks to anyone who’s ever felt grief, longing, or the need to keep moving forward when the path is uncertain.

Grant Knox (tenor) is Associate Professor of Music, Director of the Furman Lyric Theatre and Coordinator of Vocal Activities at Furman University in Greenville, SC. In the 2016/2017 academic year, he was the recipient of Furman’s Meritorious Teaching Award. During the summer months, Knox serves as a member of the voice faculty and co-director of the Studio Artist Program for SongFest, a sanctuary for singers and pianists to gather together and learn, experience and discover what makes song such a powerful art in today’s world.

In the fall of 2023, Dr. Knox was an invited guest teaching-artist at the renowned Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. As a performer, Dr. Knox is a nationally recognized tenor having soloed with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Opera, Indianapolis Opera, Chicago Opera Theatre, Chautauqua Opera, Atlanta Opera, Rochester Philharmonic/Oratorio Society, Williamsport Symphony, Greenville Symphony/Chorale, Peninsula Music Festival, Ohio Light Opera, and the Tri-Cities Opera. An active recitalist, he has appeared at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Constella Festival, the Pritzker Pavilion at Chicago’s Millennium Park, the Kerrytown Concert House and at the Colburn School in Los Angeles. Recent projects include a recital tour of Janáček’s rarely heard song cycle, The Diary of One Who Vanished with celebrated pianist Martin Katz, the U.S. premiere of Pavel Haas’ Fata Morgana in Los Angeles, and the world premiere of Nico Muhly’s The Unknown Room for tenor, violin and drone.

Knox is a proponent of new music and has collaborated with many living composers including Libby Larsen, John Musto, William Bolcom, Jake Heggie and Nico Muhly. He has been featured on several commercial recordings of rarely heard operettas for the Albany Records Label including several works of Gilbert and Sullivan, Emmerich Kálmán, and Jacques Offenbach. His students have won prestigious positions in the young artist programs of the Paris Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Palm Beach Opera, Central City Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Ohio Light Opera, and Michigan Opera Theatre as well as regularly attending the top graduate programs for voice in the country. In addition, his students have been winners in the George London Foundation Competition, the Metropolitan Opera’s Laffont Competition (district and regional), the George Shirley Competition, the National Association of Teachers of Singing Competition (national level), and the Classical Singer Competition.

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