The repertoire of Roger Pines (countertenor) has ranged in America from Primo Pastore in Monteverdi's Orfeo (The Dallas Opera) and the alto solos of Bach's Magnificat (Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra) to Handel's Messiah (Chicago) and Oberon in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream (The Opera of the University of Wisconsin-Madison). His concert activities have also included appearances with San Diego's Ensemble Nota Bene, of which he was a founding member; the Dallas Bach Society; the vocal ensemble of the Newberry Consort; and a recital at Madison's Elvehjem Museum of Art. He will sing the Messiah alto solos at the University of Chicago's Rockefeller Chapel for the second consecutive year in December 2003.
Mr. Pines changed from tenor to countertenor after substituting on 24 hours' notice for an ailing countertenor for a concert at Munich's Herkules-Saal by the renowned Clemencic Consort. He later performed a variety of Renaissance and Baroque works with that group in Vienna, Florence, and Venice. His European credits also include two rarely heard Baroque operas, Draghi's La vita nella morte and Emperor Leopold II's Il lutto dell'universo, with Vienna's Spectaculum festival, as well as concerts with Cappella Academica Wien at Vienna's Musikverein; with the Paul-Hofhaymer Ensemble in Salzburg; and with Musica Antiqua Wien in Vienna and Belgrade.