Joseph Keckler closed out our 2016 inaugural season to a standing room only crowd at the Opera House. “A gifted composer, poet and musician..the young Brooklyn-based singer resists classification.” This summer, AOH welcomes Keckler back, this time to share an an evening of music presented LIVE at The Circa 1799 Barn in Ancramdale, NY. 

Read an interview with Joseph Keckler about his upcoming show in this month’s Chronogram!

And check out his June appearance on NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Concert series:

“If you combined Phillip Glass, Rufus Wainwright, and Franz Schubert into one person, you might end up with someone like New Yorker Joseph Keckler, an opera singer who clearly values the intersections between traditional and contemporary musicality.” —Studio 1A on KUTX, Austin

“The first time we saw Joseph Keckler perform he sang “I Put A Spell On You.” We haven’t been the same since. Is Keckler merely some iteration of the “downtown It boy,” as has been pointed out by various trendy publications? He’s certainly cool enough—and adorable, too, a dark-haired, sloe-eyed 20something who typically performs clad in skintight pants and pointy, size-12 shoes. But Keckler is also unusual among his milieu of downtown performance artists and new musicians—he’s a performer who can actually sing, in a thrillingly deep, bass baritone multi-octave voice that occasionally veers into a soulful falsetto. —Interview

Operatic arias delivered in a commanding bass-baritone voice, bird calls, lovers’ baby talk, the blues — all this and more were part of Joseph Keckler’s performance at Pangea on Thursday. The sounds were woven with electronics and videos, but first, last and always, Mr. Keckler is an operatic singer whose range shatters the conventional boundaries of classical singing. The man behind the voice has the sensibility of a magician, a trickster’s dark humor and a formidable musical and literary erudition. —The New York Times

Joseph Keckler has been called the next big thing in opera because of his voice. In fact, he’s more of a comedian and performance artist. He has performed at Lincoln Center, the Pompidou Center in Paris—and at Weirdo Night at Zebulon, a hipster café in Los Angeles. The bass-baritone that resonates from his thin frame and baby face almost seems like an optical illusion. —The Wall Street Journal