The composer in Balboa Park.
Basil Considine is a founding member and the current Artistic Director of the Reduced Spice Opera Company. A composer, conductor and musicologist, he is active in Boston’s musical and theatrical scenes and teaches at Boston University.
A native of Newton, MA, Basil currently resides in Brookline, MA. His work for the stage and church take him across the United States, and musicological pursuits see him straddling both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
Education
Basil began his musical studies at the age of 4, as a violist. He attended the Boston Archdiocesan Choir School, Suzuki School of Newton, the New England Conservatory of Music, the University of San Diego, and is currently a doctoral candidate in music history and theory at Boston University. He gave his concert debut in Boston’s Symphony Hall at age 11, as the boy soprano soloist with the BSO in John Corigliano’s Of Rage and Remembrance. His concert appearances have included performances with the Boston Pops, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Marine Band San Diego, and the Boston Boy Choir. He holds degrees in liturgical music, piano & vocal performance, composition, liturgical studies and musicology; his teachers include Simon Carrington (conducting), Christopher Adler and Samuel Headrick (composition) and Lydia Diamond (playwriting).
The composer and his fiancée react to the latest developments in the music world.
Recent Activities
On 21 April 2010, Basil directed the world premier of Simple Gifts: A Copland Opera, by Aaron Krerowicz. He is currently completing the opera Don Giovanni di Casanova.
The Rest
Basil travels the world regularly in search of music manuscripts, mezzo-sopranos and gelati.