Avery Griffin concert

Our Summer Noontime Concert Series continues on Wednesday, August 20 with a performance by baritone Avery Griffin and pianist Scott Bailey. The concert will begin at noon and last for forty-five minutes and will include music by Vartan Aghababian, James Radford, Avery Griffin, as well as some folk songs. Audience members are welcome to bring a bag lunch and St. John’s will provide drinks and cookies. Admission is free; donations to help offset expenses are accepted.

Baritone Avery Griffin is a free-lance singer who performs regularly with such New York-based groups as the Trinity Choir at Trinity Church (Wall Street) and the St. Thomas Choir of Men and Boys. The ’07-’08 season saw Avery participating in performances of Purcell’s King Arthur, the Monteverdi Vespers, two late Haydn masses, and the American premiere of John Tavener’s Solemnitas in Concepione Immaculata Mariae Virginis, among others. He is a member of NotaRiotous, the permanent chamber ensemble of the Boston Microtonal Society http://www.bostonmicrotonalsociety.org/ (directed by St. John's Special Events Coordinator James Bergin). Griffin teaches music theory at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. He is a graduate of Boston University, where he was the recipient of several awards, including the Harold Zulalaian cholarship and the Ellalou Dimmocock scholarship.

Pianist Scott Bailey is the director of choral activities at Baypath College; an adjunct professor of music at Westfield State College; and private instructor of piano and accompanist at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. He has served on the faculty at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and works as a freelance accompanist and teacher throughout the Pioneer Valley as well as Berkshire County. He is the music director at the First Congregational Church of North Adams, United Church of Christ, and is coordinator of their North County Music Series, a concert series featuring local and emerging musicians from Berkshire County and beyond.