Keith Jameson

Keith Jameson has enjoyed a 28-year career as a professional opera and concert singer. He has been heard nationally at the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Opera, New York City Opera, The Santa Fe Opera and many others. Internationally, he has performed Candide with Opera di Firenze at the Maggio Musicale and with the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo; the Novice in Billy Budd with Opera di Roma and Flute/Thisbe in A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Valencia, Spain and Palermo, Sicily. He has sung Nanki-Poo in The Mikado at English National Opera in London; he performed at the Sejii Ozawa Matsumoto Festival in Japan in Falstaff, Gianni Schicchi, L’Enfant et les sortileges and Eugene Onegin. Jameson sang with Boston Baroque, in many performances of Handel’s Messiah and in Haydn’s The Creation and Lord Nelson Mass, both commercially released on CD. He can be seen as Remendado in Carmen, Bardolfo in Falstaff, both on DVD with The Metropolitan Opera, and as Yab the Elf in the world premiere of Mark Adamo’s Becoming Santa Claus, on DVD with The Dallas Opera. He can also be heard as Grandpa Joe in Peter Ash’s The Golden Ticket, recorded live with Atlanta Opera. Jameson was the Founder and Director of the Greenwood Music Festival from 2007-2013 and he is the composer of the children’s opera Petunia, based on the book by Roger Duvoisin, which received its world premiere with FBN Productions’ Opera for Kids! in South Carolina in 2014. During FBN’s tour that spring, Petunia was seen by more than 11,000 kids and adults. In 2018, Jameson appeared as J.B. Williams in the world premiere of Why is Eartha Kitt Trying to Kill Me?: A Love Story, a one-man opera written for him, with UrbanArias in Washington, DC. After 24 years in New York City, he relocated back to his hometown of Greenwood, South Carolina in May 2020, where he is the Church Music Director at First Baptist Church of Greenwood. Jameson is a graduate of Furman University and the Eastman School of Music.