Sidney Outlaw
Baritone
New England First Place Winner, 2006

Baritone, Sidney Outlaw, former student of Levone Tobin Scott, is now pursing a graduate degree in Vocal Performance at the Juilliard School where he studies with W. Stephen Smith. Mr. Outlaw has already developed an impressive repertoire having performed more than 15 major roles throughout the United States . Mr. Outlaw’s 2006 season opened with his participation in Marilyn Horne’s Master class at Carnegie Hall in Zankel Recital hall for The Marilyn Horne Foundation. Mr. Outlaw recently was seen as “Theseus” in Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Nights Dream with the Juilliard Opera Center under the baton of Maestro David Atherton. He also was seen as the Baritone Soloist for the Beethoven 9 th Symphony with the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra in December 2005. The beginning of his 2005 season included his debut with The Juilliard Opera Theatre’s production of Puccini’s Gianni Schicci and Richard Wargo’s The Music Shop. Other highlights also include his Carnegie Hall debut in March as a featured Soloist for the Carnegie Hall National Choral festival performance of Dan-u-el by Kirke Mechem in Stern Hall. In 2005 Mr. Outlaw was the Recipient of the “Bellini Award” at the Orpheus National Vocal Competition and also the debuted with the La Grange Symphony Orchestra in February 2005. In June of 2005 Mr. Outlaw attended The Music Academy of the West as a Young Artist where he covered the role of Guglielmo in Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte. While there he worked closely with internationally renowned Mezzo-Soprano Marilyn Horne and coached with Warren Jones and John Churchwell. He was also the recipient of the Encouragement award for the Marilyn Horne Foundation Vocal Competition in 2005.

The combination of his expressive, rich vocalism, elegant stage presence and exciting theatrical abilities allows him to pursue a wide breadth of operatic portrayals as well as delight audiences in concert and recital appearances. Sidney Outlaw has become particularly well-known to operatic audiences in North Carolina for his portrayals of the Friedrich Bhaer in Mark Adamo’s Little Women, Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Don Alfonso in Cosi Fan Tutte, Sarastro in Die Zauberflote. In the summer of 2003 Sidney Outlaw was a Young Artist at “Opera North” in New Hampshire where he performed three roles Antonio in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro”, Melisso in Alcina and The Commissioner in Verdi’s La Traviata. Sidney Outlaw has also been seen on the oratorio stage performing the solos for such works such as Verdi Requiem, Haydn Creation, Faure Requiem “ Fantasia on a Christmas Carol” by Ralph Vaughan Williams and the Mozart C minor Mass. Sidney Outlaw has worked with conductors such as David Atherton, the late Moses Hogan, Steven Osgood, Andre Thomas, Valery Ryvkin, Louis Burkot and Stuart Malina. While at the Juilliard School he works closely with Coaches Arlene Shrut, Margo Garrett, Nico Castel, Robin Guarino, Reed Woodhouse and Brian Zeger.

Sidney Outlaw is a Native of Brevard North Carolina and is a graduate of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro with Bachelors of Music. A recipient of several University Music Scholarships, Sidney Outlaw has also been awarded first place in the North Carolina (N.A.TS) for four consecutive years from 2000-2003 and in 2003 received the Jane Dillard Award Winning first place in the N.A.TS Regional competition and the Richard Strauss Award in the Orpheus National Vocal Competition. In 2003 Sidney Outlaw also won first place in the Charlotte Opera Guild Competition. Sidney Outlaw is also a member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity Inc. and a member of the Riverside Church choir in New York City . Sidney’s future engagements include La Calisto by Francesco Cavalli and Lowell Lieberman’s World Premiere Opera Miss Lonely Hearts which will be performed by the Juilliard Opera Center the 100 th Anniversary of The Juilliard School. Along with Playing the Role of “Il Baron di Trombonok” in Rossini’s Il Viaggio a Reims at the Music Academy of the West for their 2006 season. In May 2006 Mr. Outlaw also will be in recital with Warren Jones at the Juilliard School .

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