2024: "Echoes of Humanity”

Saturday, April 13 at 7:00 PM | PAC
Eighth Annual SBP Memorial Concert
"Songs: Echoes of Humanity"

This year's event will explore the artistic intersection of musical song and storytelling as performers describe shared themes of the Human Experience. The program features dynamic soprano Millicent Scarlett, a well-known artist in Washington DC and North America. The program will also highlight poets and performing arts students who will have the opportunity to participate in a Master Class with the guest artist before the show.

April 13, 2024 at 7:00 p.m.
 

Millicent Scarlett, soprano, originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, continues to display her musical artistry with “a powerful and juicy voice” on concert stages throughout Canada and the USA.

In the 2023-2024 season, Ms. Scarlett joined the Columbia Orchestra in their Pops Concert entitled, Sky’s The Limit, and also performed with the DTSBC dance company in their 30th Anniversary celebration performances at Towson University and the Kennedy Center. Ms. Scarlett had the pleasure of performing America the Beautiful at The National Archives Museum’s July 4th Celebration and was honored to participate in the historic Swearing in Ceremony of the new Archivist Dr. Colleen Shogan. She returned to the Hunt Country Music Festival where she performed in Jubilate along with Dr. Nathaniel Gumbs. She also performed a solo recital at the historic Washington Arts Club of Washington.

In the 2022-2023 season, Ms. Scarlett sang in the Messiah Sing-A-Long at the Kennedy Center, under the baton of Maestra Nancia D’Alimonte. She then joined the DTSBC dance company in their production of “Surroundings” at the National Portrait Gallery honoring American designer, Maya Lin, and in New York in their tribute to Marian Anderson at the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater. Ms. Scarlett presented a recital entitled, In Plain Sight, the Art Songs of African American Women composers, in her hometown of Winnipeg, before returning to perform Gwyneth Walker’s A Heart in Hiding with The Choral Arts Society of Washington in their concert, O What a Beautiful City, under the direction of Dr. Jace Saplan at The Washington National Cathedral. She performed at the Inaugural Hunt Country Music Festival, held in Middleburg, Virginia on an Afternoon of Song, and at the Arts Club of Washington, in a recital entitled Here’s to Life.

In 2020-2021, Ms. Scarlett presented a mini-concert for The Rug Store Concert series held in Virginia, and performed Verdi’s Requiem with the Washington Choral Arts Society of Washington, at Strathmore in North Bethesda, MD. She also did a studio recording for a new musical When We Get There, composed by Charlie Barnett. During the 2019-2020 season, Ms. Scarlett was heard in the role of Ida. B. Wells, in the World Premiere of “19:The Musical” at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Other engagements of note include Strauss’s Last Four Songs and Beethoven’s Ninth with the NIH Philharmonia. 

Ms. Scarlett has won many awards, most notably The Luciano Pavarotti International Competition, and National Semi-Finalist at the Metropolitan Opera. She is currently an Adjunct Professor of Voice, and the Facilitator of Voice at George Washington University, Voice Teacher for Washington National Opera’s Institute, and the Director of Music at University United Methodist Church in College Park, MD.