Seth Gilman

Lyric baritone Seth Gilman is currently freelancing in New York City, and frequently performs within the new and early music communities there. A graduate of the University of Michigan and the Mannes College of Music, he lists among his teachers Tim Hill, Stephen Lusmann, Susan Ormont, Arthur Levy, and Tom Goodheart.

Twice an alumnus of the Amherst Early Music Festival, in 2007 Mr. Gilman sang the role of Giove in Cavalli’s La Calisto and performed two roles in Campra’s L’Europe Galante in 2006. Other mainstage roles have included Chato in La Purpura de la Rosa, Liberto in the University of Michigan’s production of L’incoronazione di Poppea, and Starveling in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Past festivals at which Mr. Gilman has performed include The Aspen Music Festival, Opera Lirica di Orvieto, the Seagle Music Colony, and the Caramoor Festival Young Artists’ Program. Also experienced in operetta through engagements with the Comic Opera Guild of Ann Arbor, he can be heard in recordings supported by the Victor Herbert Society. In 2005, Seth sang the premiere of Osnat Netzer’s Three Animal Songs, and has since performed the premieres of Mu-Xuan’s Swimming the Hellespont zhi San in Boston, Robert Cuckson A Night of Pity, and of several works by Eric Shanfield, James Barry, Pat Muchmore, Kamala Sankaram, and Alex Temple in New York. Seth’s 2011 activities have included the premiere of Ms. Netzer’s The Wondrous Woman Within At Cambridge’s Oberon, more premieres with DETOUR at the Gershwin Hotel, and a concert performance of Mozart’s Don Giovanni with Musica NYC. He performs frequently with local ensembles such as Anti-Social Music, The Brooklyn Art Song Society, DETOUR, Extinct Anatomies, New Brew, and Opera on Tap.