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"A MIRACLE IN LEGACY JOSHUA CONYERS' DEBUT ALBUM"
August 2, 2024
 Joshua Conyers debut album titled A Miracle in Legacy with pianist Chelsea Whitaker will be released August 2nd, 2024. This project is my story of living in shelters, drug abuse, and violence in my childhood home but I am a survivor. This album is my journey from poverty and strife to thriving as a father, husband, performer, and educator. This album is not just about my life but a celebration of black creators, musicians, and our excellence. Compositions by Shawn E. Okpebholo, Carlos Simon, and a commission piece by Emmy Award winning composer Jasmine Arielle Barnes with poetry by Deborah Mouton. This album also incorporates African American Spirituals by world renowned composers Margaret Bonds, and Hall Johnson. The first single is from the song cycle A Miracle in Legacy: I. Never More Than Nothin’ which will be released July 19th, 2024. This album will be released on all major platforms. © ℗ 2024 Lexicon Classics
"CONYERS RETURNS TO SEATTLE FOR MALCOLM X"
December 28, 2023
Joshua Conyers returns to Seattle Opera to perform his Grammy nominated role Reginald in Anthony Davis' X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X. Performance dates are February 24 & 25, March 1, 3, 6, & 9, 2024 at  McCaw Hall.
"CONYERS MAKES HIS NY PHIL DEBUT IN THE MESSIAH"
March 21, 2023
Joshua Conyers is making his New York Philharmonic debut as the Bass Soloist in Handel’s Messiah. Performance dates are December 12, 13, 14, & 16, 2023 at Geffen Hall in The Lincoln Center.
"CONYERS MAKES ROLE DEBUT AS THE REVEREND IN BLUE"
February 16, 2023
Joshua Conyers is making his role debut at Washington National Opera performing the role of The Reverend in Jeanine Tesori and Tazwell Thompson's Blue. Performance dates are March 11, 13, 17, 19M, 22 & 25, 2023 at The Kennedy Center of Performing Arts.
"JOSHUA CONYERS
NOMINATED FOR A GRAMMY"
February 5, 2023
The GRAMMY®-nominated BMOPsound release, Anthony Davis: X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, the first recording of the five-year initiative AsToldBy: History, Race, & Justice on the Opera Stage, is available to stream where you enjoy new music, including: Amazon Music / https://amzn.to/3txsupd | Apple Music / https://apple.co/3gcEIQW | Spotify / https://spoti.fi/3TP2Xm8 Tidal / https://bit.ly/3GjCTfw | YouTube / https://bit.ly/3THfuaX
"CONYERS
TO MAKE HIS EUROPEAN DEBUT AT ENO"
April 14, 2022
Joshua Conyers is making his international and company debut at English National Opera performing the role of Policeman 3/Congregant 3 in Jeanine Tesori's Blue. Performance dates are April 20, 23M, 26, 30M, May 2 & 4, 2023 at the London Coliseum.
"LAST MINUTE ADDITION TRIUMPHS AT CARNEGIE HALL"
April 2, 2022
Joshua Conyers was a last minute replacement as the baritone soloist in Carl Orff's Carmina Burana with The Cecilia Chorus of New York at Carnegie Hall on April 2nd, 2022.
"MSO'S 70TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION BEETHOVEN 9TH ODE TO JOY"
February 11, 2022
Joshua Conyers is making his symphony debut with Memphis Symphony Orchestra performing as the Baritone Soloists in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 for MSO's 70th Anniversary Celebration. Performance dates are March 25 at the Ford Music Center (Oxford, MS), and March 26 & 27 at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts.
"CONYERS
TO MAKE ROLE AND COMPANY DEBUT AT SEATTLE OPERA"
August 16, 2021
Joshua Conyers is making his role and company debut at Seattle Opera performing the role of Policeman 3/Congregant 3 in Jeanine Tesori's Blue. Performance dates are February 26 & 27m, March 2, 5, 9, 11, & 12 at McCaw Hall.
"CONYERS
TO MAKE ROLE AND COMPANY DEBUT IN DETROIT"
March 23, 2021
Joshua Conyers is making his role and company debut at the Detroit Opera performing the role of Reginald  in Anthony Davis' X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, co-produced by Opera Omaha.  Performance dates are May 14, 19 & 22, 2022 at the Detroit Opera House.
"CONYERS STEPS IN TO MAKE ROLE AND COMPANY DEBUT"
November 12, 2020
The Atlanta Opera has announced a cast change in “Pagliacci. The company revealed that Studio Player Joshua Conyers will sing the role of Tonio for the final performances on Nov. 11, 13, and 15. Conyers replaces Reginald Smith Jr., who opened the production. The baritone joins a cast that includes Richard Trey Smagur, Talise Trevigne, Joseph Lattanzi, and Megan Marino. Rolando Salazar conducts the production by Tomer Zvulun. 
"OPERA LAFAYETTE TAKES A FRENCH CLASSIC TO THE OLD WEST"
November 12, 2020
Joshua Conyers performed the role of Eustis in François-André Danican Philidor's The Blacksmith (Le Maréchal ferrant), an 18th-century French comic opera with Opera Lafayette. "The actual quality of the audio production was excellent. How do I know? Because American baritone Joshua Conyers sang the role of Eustis, the preacher in his OL debut, that’s how. After Conyers’s performance this past March in Riffs and Relations, a performance given by the Washington National Opera Cafritz Young Artists Program at the Phillips Collection, I was convinced of his talent, and in particular of the evenness of his extraordinarily big voice. I have heard Conyers in a number of venues, but it was in the amplification of The Phillips Collection’s downstairs hall, with its open staircase where sound escapes, that things could get either weird or wonderful. Weird, they were not. In this performance, hearing Conyers in all his bright bigness without any squashing of his top or hot distortion of his volume told me that the audio engineering was primo. For his part, Conyers not only sang with his usual consummate technique; he brought to the character role a flair for comedy that was every bit as good as his ability to communicate the most tender of art songs."
"THE ATLANTA OPERA  ANNOUNCES
THE STUDIO PLAYERS"
September 15, 2020
The Atlanta Opera has announced its Studio Players, who will be a part of the 2020-21 Molly Blank Big Tent Series. “For opera singers to grow and reach their greatest potential, they must work and they must perform. The Studio Players creates those opportunities,” said Tomer Zvulun, the Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. General & Artistic Director at The Atlanta Opera, in a press release. “At the same time, these singers give us greater flexibility to properly cast and perform our 2020-21 season.” The Studio Players will include soprano Susanne Burgess, mezzo-soprano Gabrielle Beateag, tenor Brian Vu, baritone Joseph Lattanzi, baritone Joshua Conyers, and bass-baritone Calvin Griffin.
CORONAVIRUS: HOW LIVE PERFORMERS ARE RE-INVENTING THEATER IN QUARANTINE 
April 24, 2020​
NBC News Interview: As the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing theaters and clubs across the country to close, creatives are figuring out new ways to reach their audiences. Joshua Conyers details his life during Coronavirus.
CONYERS IMPRESSES IN  WNO'S RIFFS AND RELATIONS RECITAL
March 8, 2020
Joshua Conyers performed with Washington National Opera’s Cafritz Young Artists Program. This recital, 'Riffs and Relations,' at the Phillips Collection, showcased how 20th- and 21st-century African American artists have both worked within and without European traditions in the creation of American music. “American baritone Joshua Conyers gave a rousing version of Aaron Copland’s setting of the minstrel show tune, “The Boatman’s Dance,” finishing with such a stentorian flourish it was hard to think where the energy might possibly go from there. I’ve had the pleasure of listening to Conyers in a number of different roles for two years now, but this was the first I had heard him in an intimate setting where his voice, though plenty big, could truly resonate and fill the space. The smaller venue suited him allowing a richer tone and timbre I had not previously heard in his voice to shine through." 
​-DC Metro Theater Arts
​MR. CONYERS PERFORMS
NIGHT TRIP 
​AT WNO'S AMERICAN OPERA INITIATIVE
January 10, 2020
Joshua Conyers performed Uncle Wesley in Carlos Simon and Sandra Seaton’s Night Trip at Washington National Opera's American Opera Initiative. Mr. Conyers was described as "showing great pathos as Uncle Wesley." 
​-DC Metro Theater Arts
A MAJOR TRIUMPH AS CONYERS SHINES AS THE MUSIC MASTER IN ARIADNE AUF NAXOS
July 19, 2019
Joshua Conyers performed the Music Master in Richard Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos at Wolf Trap Opera. Mr. Conyers was described as having a "strong baritone" by The Washington Post, "fully engaging, singing and acting"  by OperaGene, and a "commanding baritone" by Washington Classical Review.
JOSHUA CONYERS RECEIVES RAVE REVIEW
​FROM OPERA NEWS
April 1, 2019
Joshua Conyers performed Jason in Matt Boehler and Laura Barati's 75 Miles at Washington National Opera's American Opera Initiative. In Opera News' April 2019 edition, Mr. Conyers review states that "Joshua Conyers's tender baritone and beautifully nuanced phrasing fleshed out the role of Avery's empathetic father."  -Opera News
CELEBRATION OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH WITH RECITAL AND MASTERCLASS
Feb 22, 2019
Mr. Conyers was a Guest Artist at Opera Wilmington/UNC Wilmington annual Opera Symposium, in celebration of Caterina Jarboro, in conjunction with Black History Month as a Recitalist and presenting a Masterclass.
JOSHUA CONYERS'
​A MAJOR SUCCESS AS LE ROI MARC IN FRANK MARTIN'S LE VIN HERBÉ
​Feb 9 & 10, 2019
Joshua Conyers performed Le Roi Marc in Frank Martin’s Le Vin Herbé. This production was a collaboration between Wolf Trap Opera and Washington Concert Opera that was a major success in the Washington DC/Virginia metro area. "The Marc, Joshua Conyers, has been developing admirably at Wolf Trap and in the Domingo-Cafritz program, gaining in authority and vocal power each time I hear him."  ​-The Washington Post
CONYERS PERFORMED THE DONKEY TO RAVE REVIEWS AT WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA
​Dec 14, 2018
Joshua Conyers performed the Donkey in The Lion, The Unicorn, and Me by Tony Award winning composer Jeanine Tesori at Washington National Opera. Mr. Conyers' performance was described as  "winning us all over with his satisfying emotionally truthful performance" and "made the role sympathetic and fun."
JOSHUA CONYERS
​DEBUTS AT WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA
Oct 19, 2018
Joshua Conyers made his Washington National Opera debut performing Giorgio Germont in a new production of Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata.
WASHINGTON
NATIONAL OPERA'S
​DOMINGO/
​CAFRITZ YOUNG ARTIST PROGRAM 
​Aug 27, 2018
Mr. Conyers will be a member of Washington National Opera’s Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program, a program of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for the 2018-2019 season. ​Mr. Conyers responsibilities will include Giorgio Germont in La traviata (Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Performance), British Major in Silent Night, ​Donkey in The Lion, The Unicorn, and Me, and Zaretsky in Eugene Onegin.
JOSHUA CONYERS
​PERFORMS IN WORKSHOP OF NEW OPERA "BLUE"
​​Aug 24, 2018
The Glimmerglass Festival has commissioned composer Jeanine Tesori and librettist Tazewell Thompson to write a new opera about race in America, entitled Blue. The opera brings audiences into the emotional epicenter of an African-American couple — a father and a mother — who lose their teenage son when he is killed by a police officer. Blue focuses on the joys and sorrows of bringing a child into a world in which African-American families are forced to question if their sons’ lives matter. Mr. Conyers will be performing the workshop of Blue, portraying the Reverend. 
DC METRO THEATER ARTS 5 QUESTIONS WITH JOSHUA CONYERS
Aug 2, 2018
Baritone Joshua Conyers is becoming a mainstay in the Washington area. Conyers is a Summer 2018 Filene Artist at Wolf Trap Opera, where he has sung Count Capulet in Charles Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, shared the stage with George Takei, Misty Copeland, and other luminaries in Wolf Trap’s tribute to Leonard Bernstein, and will take on the role of Count Monterone in the Wolf Trap Opera premiere of Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto on August 3 with the National Symphony Orchestra.
JOSHUA CONYERS
​MADE HIS KENNEDY CENTER DEBUT  
​Jun 18, 2018
Joshua Conyers made his debut at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 2018 as the Baritone Soloist performing Maurice Duruflé's Requiem with the Manhattan Concert Productions. 
JOSHUA CONYERS
​MADE HIS
WOLF TRAP
OPERA DEBUT 
​Jun 16, 2018
​Joshua Conyers made his Wolf Trap Opera Debut as the Baritone soloist in Bernstein’s Songfest with the National Orchestral Institute ​which will be recorded with Naxos Records. "Joshua Conyers... offered a spark of communication in “The pennycandystore beyond the El,”... But he had the unenviable task of taking the Langston Hughes part in a duet Bernstein set that contrasted “I, too sing America” with “Hey Negroes” by June Jordan [which} He sang ardently..." (Anne Midgette, The Washington Post)
JOSHUA CONYERS
​MADE HIS CARNEGIE
HALL DEBUT 
​May 26, 2018
Mr. Conyers made his Carnegie Hall Debut in 2018 as the Baritone Soloist performing Mozart’s Regina Cœli, K. 276, Mark Hayes’ Te Deum, Vaughn Williams’ Serenade to Music, and Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy with MidAmerica Productions. 
JOSHUA CONYERS
​A CAREER BRIDGES GRANT AWARD WINNER 
​May 8, 2018
Joshua Conyers is a 2018 Career Bridges Grant Award Winner. At Career Bridges 16th annual gala concert at the Metropolitan Club, Mr. Conyers performance was described as having a "Super-charged" instrument that "lent his large instrumentand dramatic intensity to "Nemico della patria" from Giordano's Andrea Chenier." (Voce di Meche)
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