Singer

In composing his epic, moving Requiem, Damien Geter was inspired by those composed earlier by Mozart, Berlioz, Brahms, and especially Verdi. Within the traditional Latin text, Geter’s Requiem weaves the words of victims of lynching and of those who dared speak out. “A Requiem memorializes a person,” Geter has stated. “We need to memorialize these folks in some way, to keep their names alive. And this is the way I choose to honor them.”

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Damien Geter’s An African American Requiem

Dominion Energy Center

Set sail on a season of breathtaking music with a concert that sweeps from the stormy seas to the grandeur of the opera stage. Rossini’s William Tell Overture launches the evening with cinematic energy, followed by Amy Beach’s Bal Masqué, a dazzling orchestral dance. Acclaimed baritone Kenneth Overton joins us once again for selections from Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni, bringing wit, drama, and passion to these operatic masterpieces. Finally, Debussy’s La Mer immerses us in the ever-shifting beauty of the sea, painting an orchestral canvas of movement and light. With sweeping melodies, captivating drama, and a touch of the unexpected, this season opener promises an evening where music dances, waves crash, and imagination soars.

Debussy: La Mer

Converse University

In 1937, NBC began a live radio broadcast of Black American composer Robert Nathaniel Dett’s The Ordering of Moses. However… mid-performance NBC cut the broadcast feed giving in to complaints from outraged listeners. On Feburary 9, Experience Dett’s full-length oratorio – performed without interruption – and find out why we think this might be the greatest American choral work of all time. 

The Ordering of Moses

Yale University

Join us as the Black Leadership Arts Collective (B.L.A.C.) presents a series of masterclasses and lectures designed to support and empower Black vocal artists through leadership, performance, and by supporting creative and artistic endeavors.

Black Leadership Arts Collective: Kenneth Overton and Russell Thomas

The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

Blue

Louis Armstrong Park

The New York Choral Society presents A Knee on the Neck, a concert that pairs two cantatas that bring our attention to the devastating pain of injustice and conflict in a program that call us to come together with a collective resolve for justice, freedom, and peace.  Featuring the New York premiere of Adolphus Hailstork’s new requiem cantata A Knee on the Neck.

Baritone

Kenneth Overton

Events

Past events

17 - 18 Jan, 2026

Damien Geter’s An African American Requiem · Richmond Symphony

Sep 13, 2025

Debussy: La Mer · Spartanburg Philharmonic

Future and recently performed repertoire

The Father in Blue by Tesori

New Orleans Opera

Singer in Bal masque by Beach

Spartanburg Philharmonic

Singer in The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart

Spartanburg Philharmonic

Singer in William Tell Overture by Rossini

Spartanburg Philharmonic

Singer in Don Giovanni by Mozart

Spartanburg Philharmonic

Singer in La mer by Debussy

Spartanburg Philharmonic

Singer in An African American Requiem by Geter

Richmond Symphony

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