Baritone David Kravitz, hailed by critics for his "expressivity and vocal opulence," his "natural, intelligent, and resonant singing," his "drop-dead musicianship," and his "easy, fluent coloratura," was recently named an "outstanding singer of the season" by the Boston Globe.

Mr. Kravitz's recent concert appearances include his Carnegie Hall debut in Handel's Messiah; Beethoven's Symphony No. 9; Bach's St. Matthew Passion and Christmas Oratorio, the Requiems of Mozart, Brahms, and Fauré; Orff's Carmina Burana; Britten's Cantata Misericordium, and numerous bass solos with Emmanuel Music's renowned Bach Cantata Series. His opera roles include Leporello and the title role in Don Giovanni, Figaro in The Barber of Seville, Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte, Nick Shadow in The Rake's Progress, Captain Corcoran in HMS Pinafore, and Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro. Mr. Kravitz has appeared in concert with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Seiji Ozawa, the Orchestra of St. Luke's under Roger Norrington, the Cantata Singers and Collage New Music under David Hoose, Boston Baroque under Martin Pearlman, Orchestra 2001 under James Freeman, and Emmanuel Music under Craig Smith, among others, and with opera companies including Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, the Lake George Opera Festival, and Opera Aperta. He has presented world or regional premieres of numerous contemporary works, including Edward Cohen's opera The Bridal Night with Collage New Music, John Harbison's Four Psalms with Cantata Singers, Tod Machover's Resurrection with Boston Lyric Opera, Thomas Whitman's opera The Black Swan with Orchestra 2001, and Andy Vores' Welsh Songs with pianist Kayo Iwama. Mr. Kravitz can be heard on Koch International Classics' recordings of Bach's Cantata BWV 20 and St. John Passion (1725 version) with Emmanuel Music, and on New World's recording of Peter Child's Estrella with Cantata Singers.