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Padraic Costello​, Press and Marketing DIRECTOR

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Countertenor Padraic Costello maintains a busy schedule as an opera, solo, and ensemble singer in the New York City area. Mr. Costello received graduate degrees in voice performance and ethnomusicology from the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, where his research and performance interests focused on new music and theater by Japanese composers. His career has focused on utilizing music and performance as a means of investigating social relationships and identity. He is a strong advocator of new music and multidisciplinary performance, and frequently collaborates as a performer with musicians and artists from the United States, Asia, and Polynesia. Mr. Costello is also trained in several traditional Asian music performance genres, and has been studying the Japanese koto for six years as a member of the Sawai Koto Kai school.

In New York, Mr. Costello is a member of the professional Choir of Men and Boys at Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, which is regarded by many as the leading ensemble of its kind in the United States. Recent opera roles include Oberon in Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, separate engagements as both Endimione and Pane in Francesco Cavalli's La Calisto, Goffredo in G.F. Handel's Rinaldo, and Ottone in G.F. Handel's Agrippina.

Through his work with Japanese and East Asian composers, Mr. Costello has become especially passionate about the opera and art song of composers in East Asia. He gave two separate recitals of Japanese art song over the past year, which have included premieres, and has presented several papers on the global spread of the art song genre, cosmopolitanism, and cultural intimacy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as part of ongoing research.

Mr. Costello also has a soft spot for 19th-century art song, and is delighted to be joining the creative team at ASPS as the Press and Marketing Director. His absolute favorite song cycle of the moment is Robert Schumann's Dichterliebe.​

  • Home
  • Summer of Song Festival 2022
  • About Us
    • Board of Directors >
      • Blair Boone-Migura
      • Cristie Strongman
      • Courtenay Casey
      • Raven Glover
    • Creative Executive Team >
      • Celeste Chau
      • Padraic Costello
      • Eric Sedgwick
    • Advisory Board >
      • Dalton Baldwin
      • Christopher Berg
      • Corradina Caporello
      • Frank Daykin
      • Melissa Gerstein
      • Thomas Grubb
      • Carol Kimball
      • Kathryn LaBouff
      • Mark Markham
      • Thomas Muraco
      • Marni Nixon
      • Janet Price
      • Michel Sénéchal
      • Arlene Shrut
      • Paul Sperry
  • Media
    • Video Recordings
    • Audio Recordings
    • Radio Interviews
    • Radio Appearances
    • Spring into Song Archive >
      • Season of Song Festival 2020
      • Summer of Song Festival 2021 >
        • Summer of Song Festival 2022
      • 2017 Spring Into Song - Sandra Hamoui Concert
      • 2017 Spring Into Song - Robert Brandt Concert
      • 2016 Spring Into Song
      • Spring into Song 2015
      • Spring Into Song 2014
      • Program Archive
      • Summer of Song 2013
    • Event Photos
  • Mary Trueman Vocal Arts Competition
    • 2017-18 Finalists
    • 2015-16 Finalists
    • 2014 Winners
    • 2013-14 Competition Finalists
    • 2012 Winners
    • About Mary Trueman
    • Mary Trueman: In Her Words
  • Artist Education and Collaboration Resources
    • Song Studio Classes
    • Voice Lessons & Coachings
    • Testimonials
    • Recommended Pianists
  • Singing & Other Sins Public Radio Show
  • Press Releases and Newsletters
    • Newsletter Archive
    • Subscribe
  • Community and Support
    • DONATE
    • Grant Awards to ASPS
    • Partnerships
    • Community Outreach
    • Volunteer with ASPS
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    • Press Kit
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