| OLIVER MERCER |
 Hailed by the New York Times as “excellent” and “particularly impressive”, Oliver Mercer is quickly gaining recognition as one of New York’s most exciting young voices in early music. The 2009/2010 season marked several solo debuts, including Alice Tully Hall under Kent Tritle with Musica Sacra, Houston’s Wortham Center with Le Voix Baroque, 5 Boroughs Music Festival, and Handel’s Messiah with Taghkanic Chorale under Steven Fox.
Mercer also returned as featured soloist with the Sacred Music in a Sacred Space concert series, Saint Thomas Fifth Avenue and the Clarion Music Society. A highlight of 2010 has been Mercer’s participation in multiple performances of Monteverdi’s Vespro della beata Vergine. The New York Times wrote of his appearance under Steven Fox with Clarion Music Society: “The vocal soloists were generally splendid. The tenors, especially: Oliver Mercer, who lent so much backbone to the performance by the St. Thomas Choir of Men and Boys in March, did likewise here…”(April 2010)
In the summer of 2009 Mercer participated in Glyndebourne Festival Opera’s 75th season in their acclaimed production of Purcell’s The Fairy Queen under the baton of William Christie. Other past engagements include Performances of Bach’s St. John Passion in Korea and Japan with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Evangelist in Bach’s Saint Matthew Passion at Saint Thomas Fifth Avenue and soloist in various Bach cantatas at the Oregon Bach Festival under Helmut Rilling.
Upcoming engagements in 2010/2011 include the role of evangelist in selected Christmas cantatas of J.S. Bach with Clarion Music Society, the role of Ferrando in the Savannah Philharmonic’s production of Cosi fan Tutte and a debut in Carnegie Hall’s Isaac Stern Auditorium as tenor soloist in Handel’s Israel in Egypt.
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