Jason Burke is excited to join SPC as our new Professor of Musical Theatre & Voice.
As a performer, Jason has appeared across the country in the national tour of The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber as a principal vocalist. Other theatrical highlights include productions of Phantom, Moon Over Buffalo, Tommy, My Fair Lady, Damn Yankees, She Loves Me, The Music Man, Jesus Christ Superstar, I Shall Not Be Moved, the opera McTeague, Rose-Marie, and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue at the Kennedy Center. Additionally, Jason has performed with the New York City Opera in Acis & Galatea and I Capuletti e I Montecchi and the musical Sweeney Todd with the New York Philharmonic.
In March 2010, Jason was a finalist in the American Traditions Vocal Competition in Savannah, GA.
Jason has had the opportunity to sing with several orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the American Symphony Orchestra, The Cincinnati Pops, the Indianapolis Pops, the Detroit Pops, the Florida Orchestra and the Bloomington Pops. Special concerts included the premiere of Fantasia 2000 at Carnegie Hall and Beethoven's Symphony No.9 on the eve of the millennium. A frequent soloist throughout the Bay, in the past few seasons Jason has performed in The Messiah, Rutter's Mass for the Children, and Schubert's Mass in G.
Recordings include: Sweeney Todd: LIVE, Die Liebe Der Danae (Telarc), Rose-Marie (cast-album), Puttin' On the Ritz (soloist), The Magical Music of Disney (additional vocal arrangements), The Music Man (Grammy-nominated), The Stephen Paulus Christmas Album & American Voices v1, v2, & v3.
He is also active as a Music Director and has music directed two USF musicals (Hair, Rocky Horror Show) and produced his own Sondheim revue on campus. Additional music directing credits include: Sweeney Todd, Sugar Babies, Evita, H2$, Fiddler on the Roof, The King & I, I Shall Not Be Moved, along with several cabarets and revues. Jason is the Artistic Administrator for the Richard Zielinski Singers, the Project Manager for the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay, and also functions as Festival Coordinator for the USF Festival of Voices.
Jason holds an MM and a BS in Voice from Indiana University School of Music.
