Broadway Pops
Presented by Boise Philharmonic
Featuring Opera Idaho Artists
Saturday, April 26, 2025 • 7:30 pm
Pre-Concert talk • 6:15 pm
The Morrison Center
Sunday, April 27, 2025 • 2:00 pm
Pre-Concert Talk • 12:45 pm
The Morrison Center
Introduction
Join us for an evening of musical magic as we join the Boise Philharmonic for a spectacular pops concert celebrating show-stopping Broadway hits. This concert celebrates the rich and diverse world of musical theater, featuring stunning vocal performances and orchestral arrangements that will leave you breathless.
Repertoire TBA
Pre-Concert Talk
Join Musicologist Bradley Berg and Music Director Eric Garcia (and special guests) as they guide you through the music you are about to hear, providing an enlightening look at the repertoire and composers before the performance begins. Bring your questions! Please gather inside the concert hall by the stage.
Cast
Jillian Kates
Soprano
Kelly Glyptis
Soprano
Peter Lake
Tenor
Ezekiel Andrew
Baritone
Eric Garcia
Music Director
Jillian Kates is a musical theater artist based out of Brooklyn, NY. She holds a Bachelor of Music from the Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music. Credits include the Broadway Nat’l Tour of Wicked as the Glinda/Nessarose cover where she toured much of the U.S. and part of Canada. After a couple of years in Oz she joined the resident acting companies of Great Lakes Theatre, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, and Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival where for the last decade she has been able to grow her artistry with roles like Eliza in My Fair Lady, Portia in Julius Caesar, Lily in The Secret Garden, Stephano in The Tempest, Donna in Mamma Mia, Jane in Pride and Prejudice, Marian in The Music Man, Helen in Murder on the Orient Express, Hélène in The Great Comet of 1812, Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and most recently The Witch in Into the Woods. She looks forward to a long life ‘on the boards’ and hopes to one day run her own theater company and youth acting program out of a commune with her wild and wonderful group of friends!
Kelly Glyptis is a Greek-American lyric soprano currently based in London, England on a Tier 1 Global Talent Visa where she performed as Carlotta Giudicelli in The Phantom of The Opera in the West End. Miss Glyptis’ credits include the World Premieres of Madeleine (Madeleine) with Surrey Opera, Meesha (Her Day) with Her Day Opera, and Vinkensport, or the Finch Opera as Sir Elton John’s Trainer with Opera Saratoga as well as Amelia (Un ballo in Maschera) with Opera on Location, Countess Almaviva (Nozze di Figaro) and Fiordiligi (Cosi fan tutte) with Shreveport Opera, Aldonza (Man of La Mancha) and The Foreign Woman/Magda Sorel Cover (The Consul) with Opera Saratoga, North American National Tour of Fiddler on the Roof as Fruma Sarah and Golde/Yente Cover, Cupid (Orpheus in the Underworld) and Mimi cover (La bohème) at Virginia Opera, Berta (Il barbiere di Siviglia) with The Atlanta Opera, The Mother Abbess Cover (The Sound of Music) on the North American National Tour, Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins), The Witch (Into the Woods), Morticia (The Addams Family), Anita (West Side Story) with The Prizery Theatre, Suor Angelica (Suor Angelica) with the Virginia ARTfactory and has covered the title role in Alcina with Fargo-Moorhead Opera. Miss Glyptis has also performed with Cardinal Stage, Gray Ghost Theater, Pied Piper Theatre, and Dominion Stage and has been seen in concert with the Eclectic Voices in London, Opera Delaware, Baltimore Opera, and Brooklyn Metro Chamber Orchestra. Upcoming performances include the Lithuanian National Opera as Giorgetta (Il tabarro).
Peter Lake, raised by the Houston Press for how he “…amazes with a clarion tenor that has the reedy projection of superstar-from-yore Jan Peerce,” is an internationally performing crossover artist who debuted as Old Deuteronomy in Really Useful Group’s production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s CATS aboard the Oasis of the Seas with Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines International in 2023. He returned to reprise his role as Old Deuteronomy for multiple contracts in the 2024 season. This October Peter released his debut, full-length album of all his favorite Broadway hits, “Still Standing.” His acclaimed album is currently available on all streaming platforms! In 2025 Peter will be debuting the role of the Prince in Gulfshore Opera’s Rusalka and performing the leading tenor role of B.F. Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly with New Jersey Verismo Opera and Light Opera of New Jersey. In the Spring of 2024 Peter made his role debut as Roberto in Puccini’s rarely performed Le Villi with a return to Mobile Opera, in collaboration with Classical Ballet Mobile, along with a return to Pacific Opera Project to share in their ground-breaking English-Japanese language production of Madama Butterfly as B.F. Pinkerton. Peter is also enjoying a flourishing concert career including a debut with the Savannah Symphony in Carmina Burana.
Ezekiel Andrew, a native of the Mississippi Delta, enjoys a career of both excitement and versatility. He is most grateful to have performed in some of the major regional theaters across the country. Some of his favorite roles include Coalhouse Walker Jr. (Theatre Under the Stars), The Beast, Beauty and the Beast (Syracuse Stage) Jim, Big River (Utah Shakespeare Festival). In November of 2021, he made his Broadway debut with the cast of Disney’s The Lion King on Broadway in New York City. Ezekiel also enjoys being active as a concert artist, most often creating his own programs and opportunities as he travels from theater to theater. Outside of the theater, Ezekiel explores other artistic pursuits in modeling and tv/film, and fitness. With a heart for youth and arts education, Ezekiel enjoys giving back to the community by going to high schools and colleges, holding masterclasses and talkbacks to inspire the next generation of artists. “I am very fortunate to be doing the thing that I love the most, touching the hearts and lives of people through storytelling and song. I am grateful to my family, teachers, and friends who stand with me and support me every step of the way. Thank you and God bless.”
Eric Garcia, praised for his “elegant and expressive” conducting, is Music Director of the Boise Phil and Artistic Director and Conductor of the McCall Music Society SummerFest. Garcia previously served as Assistant Conductor of the Seattle Symphony, conducting subscription, education, pops, and community concerts. He served as producer for recordings on the Naxos label and conductor for Brandi Carlile’s acclaimed Columbia Records release: Live at Benaroya Hall with the Seattle Symphony. Garcia has served as Associate Conductor of the Eastern Music Festival, faculty of the Eastern Music Festival Conducting Institute, and principal conductor at the Cortona Sessions for New Music in Cortona, Italy. The 2021-22 season marks his debut with the Rockford Symphony Orchestra (IL.). He has appeared as guest conductor with Symphony New Hampshire, Oklahoma City Ballet, Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Octava Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra Seattle, Philharmonia Northwest, Rainier Symphony, Northwest Festival Orchestra, Greensboro Ballet, Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra, and cover conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
A champion of music education, Garcia has served as Music Director and Professor of Orchestral Conducting at the Greenwood School of Music at Oklahoma State University and the Wanda L. Bass School of Music at Oklahoma City University. In addition, he has served as a clinician for high school orchestras throughout the country.
An avid supporter of contemporary music, Garcia has collaborated with such esteemed composers as John Adams, Sergio Assad, George Crumb, David Lang, Lowell Lieberman, Nico Muhly, Eric Nathan, Sean Shepherd, and Jay Alan Yim, among others.
Garcia was a member of the American Academy of Conducting at the Aspen Music Festival and School, where he studied with James Conlon, Nicholas Kraemer, Murry Sidlin, Leonard Slatkin, and David Zinman. At Aspen, he worked with the Susan and Ford Schumann Center for Composition Studies and the Aspen Opera Theatre Center. Garcia was also a recipient of the Bruno Walter Foundation Scholarship at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, where he studied with Marin Alsop.
Eric hosts a podcast and series on Radio Boise entitled Noted, which is designed for the seasoned or casual listener of classical music.
