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"I have no doubt that he would be completely capable of building a voice from the ground up, and what a luxury that would be! There is no doubt in my mind that Jason is going to change my singing life forever, and it is with complete and total trust that I place my livelihood in his very capable hands."
-Twyla Robinson, Internationally Celebrated Soprano
Praised by Opera News for "singing up a stylish storm" and for “getting the gold star for trills”, American tenor, Jason Ferrante holds both the Bachelor and Master of Music Degrees from the Juilliard School where he studied voice with his mentor, Beverley Peck Johnson with additional studies with Cynthia Hoffmann, Rita Shane, and at Tanglewood and the Aspen Music Festival.
Future engagements include debuts at Florida Grand Opera as Borsa in Rigoletto, Syracuse Opera as Goro in his 11th production of Madama Butterfly and with the Orlando Philharmonic, also as Borsa in Rigoletto as well as a return to the Jacksonville Symphony for Beethoven's Choral Fantasy and a return to the Bard Summerscape in a joint production with the Wexford Festival of Chabrier's Le roi malgre lui.
In the 2010-2011 season Ferrante debuted with Opera Boston as Jacquino in Fidelio, Kentucky Opera and Opera Omaha as Goro in Madama Butterfly, Opera New Jersey as the Magician in The Consul and was the tenor soloist in Handel's Messiah with the Jacksonville Symphony
In the 2009-2010 season, Ferrante circled the globe, singing the role of the Beadle in the Italian premiere of Sweeney Todd at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna and the Teatro Municipale di Piacenza, the tenor Ghost in The Ghosts of Versailles at Ireland’s Wexford Festival, Basilio in Le Nozze di Figaro with the Eugene Opera, Pong in the Chen Kaige production of Turandot for the grand opening of the new opera house in Guangzhou, China and King Ouf in L’Etoile for his debut at the New York City Opera.
Ferrante has performed leading and supporting roles at New York City Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Arizona Opera and with the opera companies of Indianapolis, Berkshire, Toledo, Birmingham, Orlando, Dayton, Jacksonville, New Jersey, Harrisburg , Kentucky, Sarasota, Madison, Annapolis, Ash Lawn, Tanglewood, Aspen, Juilliard, and the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center. Internationally, he has been heard at the theaters in Bologna, Piacenza , Modena, Lugo, Wexford and Guangzhou, China. In recital and concert, he's appeared on five continents including performances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the Kennedy Center. He has been engaged to sing with some of the world's leading conductors, including Ozawa, Conlon, Zinman, Slatkin, Lord, Maazel and Rudel. Ferrante has performed works by Floyd, Rorem, Musto, Liebermann and Rands under the supervision of those composers. He has been heard on PBS, NHK in Japan, NPR, WQXR, WNYC and WAMU.
In his six years at Juilliard, his extensive diction and language study included work with Thomas Grubb, Corradina Caporello, Richard Cross, Gina Levinson, Robert Cowart, Kathryn LaBouff and Nico Castel. His primary acting studies were with Frank Corsaro and Edward Berkeley. Ferrante's work at Juilliard also included regular training in dance, stage combat and Alexander Technique. Ferrante has been a panelist on the Metropolitan Opera Quiz and has authored articles for the Juilliard Journal. He is a two-time winner of a Shouse Grant from Wolf Trap where he was a Filene Young Artist and holds the gold medal from the Rosa Ponselle Foundation, awarded to him at the age of 16.
Ferrante makes his fulltime home in Miami, FL. In addition to maintaining an active international opera career, Ferrante has served on the voice/opera faculty of the New World School of the Arts, Towson University and teaches private voice to some of South Florida's most promising young singers and to many artists singing abroad. In both 2010 and 2011, Ferrante was a guest instructor at Texas A&M International University in Laredo, as well as at Laredo Community College.
Some of his past and current students have gone on to sing around the world and to pursue studies at Juilliard, Curtis, AVA, Tanglewood and Aspen, and have been top prize winners in major voice competitions around the USA and can be currently heard on operatic and concert stages around the world.
