Thomas McCargar (Baritone)

Born: September 17, 1980 - Des Moines, Iowa, USA

The American baritone, Thomas McCargar, studied Vocal Performance at the Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa (Class of 2004).

Called “gripping” by The New York Times, and described as singing with “calm fluidity” by The Washington Post, Thomas McCargar has established himself as both a soloist and sought-after ensemble singer in New York City and around the USA.

Recent engagements include singing the role of Evangelist in Alberto Ginastera's Turbae ad Passionem Gregorianam with the Trinity Wall Street Choir, Washington Chorus and NOVUS NY at Carnegie Hall; Du Yun’s Angel’s Bone and Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves with the Prototype Festival; Steve Reich’s Three Tales with Ensemble Signal at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles; Paul Moravec’s Songs of Love and War with The Dessoff Choirs; Anne Hamilton’s The Event of a Thread at Park Avenue Armory; performing with Kanye West at the Hollywood Bowl for his two 808’s and Heartbreak concerts; and appearing with Andrea Bocelli during NBC’s 2015 broadcast of Christmas in Rockefeller Center.

As an ensemble singer, Thomas McCargar is a member of the acclaimed Trinity Wall Street Choir and also performs regularly with Pomerium, Seraphic Fire, Grammy Award-winning Roomful of Teeth, Spire, TENET, Musica Sacra, VOX Vocal Ensemble, Antioch Chamber Ensemble, Voices of Ascension, New York Virtuoso Singers, Early Music New York, Yale Choral Artists, and Meridionalis. Other highlights include touring the world with Chanticleer; leading over 1,000 people in Times Square in the singing of John Lennon's Imagine for Yoko Ono’s installation Imagine Peace; and singing You Can’t Always Get What You Want with the Rolling Stones. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Sources:
American Composers Orchestra Website (January 2017)
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (December 2017)

Recordings of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works

Conductor

As

Works

Jeffrey Grossman

Bass

With Impromptu Bach Ensemble:
[V-2] (Video, 2017): BWV 232 [solo]

Avi Stein

Bass

Bach at One [BO22-1] (2022, Video): BWV 64
Bach at One [BO22-2] (2022, Video): BWV 78
Bach at One [BO22-4] (2023, Video): BWV 105

Avi Stein

Bass

Member of Choir of Trinity Wall Street:
Bach at One [BO22-1] (2022, Video): BWV 40, BWV 64, BWV 89, BWV 80
Bach at One [BO22-2] (2022, Video): BWV 78, BWV 1149, BWV 167

Julian Wachner

Bass

Bach at One [BO-50] (2016, Video): BWV 135
Bach at One [BO-55] (2016, Video): BWV 154
Bach at One [BO-58] (2016, Video): BWV 187
Bach at One [BO-59] (2016, Video): BWV 180
Bach at One [SA-2] (2018, Video): BWV 131, BWV 61
Bach at One [BO-79] (2018, Video): BWV 12, BWV 70
Bach at One [BO-80] (2018, Video): BWV 21, BWV 196
Bach at One [BO-81] (2018, Video): BWV 164, BWV 45
Bach at One [BO-83] (2018, Video): BWV 79, BWV 117
Bach at One [BO-84] (2018, Video): BWV 104, BWV 6

Franz Welser-Möst

Bass

Member of Seraphic Fire (Director: Patrick Dupré Quigley):
[CR-34] (2017, Audio): BWV 34

Links to other Sites

Thomas McCargar (American Composers Orchestra)
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