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Sunday Nov 5, 2023
Doors open 7:00pm Start 7:30pm

Renee Weiler Concert Hall
Greenwich House
46 Barrow Street NYC

About Raguel Gabriel
Raguel is a Trinidadian tenor and actor. He studied voice and music for many years in his homeland at The Key Academy of Music and Alfred Wallace’s School of Music. NYC vocal study credits include The Neil Semer Vocal Institute, Dagmar Apel and Dr. Jeffrey Middleton at Westbeth NYC. As actor he trained at LAMDA (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art) and the Stella Adler Studio of Acting (NYC) where he graduated from the three-year professional conservatory. Operatic roles performed include Tamino in Die Zauberflote (Mozart), Hoffmann in Les contes d’Hoffmann (Offenbach), Alfred in Die Fledermaus (Strauss II) and Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas (Purcell). He also interpreted musical theater roles including Tony in West Side Story and Marius in (the Caribbean premiere of) Les Miserables. NYC acting credits include Antonio in The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare), Sorin in The Seagull (Chekov) and the title role in Othello (Shakespeare). In 2021 Raguel successfully launched RTG productions with a multi camera internationally live streamed performance of Franz Schubert’s entire ‘Schwanengesang’, from Merkin Hall in NYC. Recent awards include the Gold Prize at the 2023 World Classical Music Awards (Season 2) and 2nd prize at the Sinfonietta Bel Canto Orchestra’s 2022 Vocal Competition in Chicago. He also won at the CS Music Vocal Competition (Chicago 2022), Marker and Pioneer International Competition (LA 2022) and is a past double category winner (Operatic and Musical) at Trinidad and Tobago’s prestigious Music Festival. He continues to forge a unique path expressing himself passionately in the areas of both drama and music. Raguel is currently based in the New York City. Raguelgabriel.com

About Jeffrey Middleton
Jeffrey is an American pianist based in New York City. An alum of The Juilliard School and Yale School of Music, his varied career includes solo and chamber music performances, vocal coaching, accompanying and teaching. Middleton’s debut recital at the Weill Hall at the prestigious Carnegie Hall was presented by Artists International Inc. Career highlights include his critically acclaimed recordings of Book II of Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier (One Soul Records) and Cathay, a recording of solo piano pieces composed by Joseph Fennimore for Albany Records. Further collaborations with Fennimore include 23 Romances for Piano (2015) and From My Window (2018) also on Albany Records. He has toured Taiwan, Switzerland and South Africa among other countries. In 2021 Middleton received the Mae L. Wien Faculty Award for distinguished service from the School of American Ballet, where he retired after thirty-six years on the Music Faculty. Jeffrey recently completed recording sessions of Fennimore’s Lonely Planet and his Fourth Sonata as well as Debussy’s Twelve Etudes, set for an international release by the end of 2023 on Albany Records.