Kevin McMillan’s list of orchestral appearances includes major orchestras across North America, such as the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. His music festival appearances have varied from an audience of 70,000 for Carmina Burana on the Maifeld in Berlin to intimate audiences at chamber music festivals from Staunton, Virginia to Parry Sound, Ontario. His many appearances with oratorio societies and choirs include several contemporary works written expressly for him, such as the title role in Sir Peter Maxwell Davies' oratorio, Job, which he premiered in Canada, Britain, and Israel. Kevin McMillan is among the pre-eminent baritone recitalists of his generation, specializing in the songs of Vaughan Williams, Schubert, Schumann, and Wolf.
Carmina burana - Orff; George Weston Recital Hall, Toronto 2009. Photo credit: Claus Anderson
Now have I fed and eaten up the Rose
A Green Lowland of Pianos O Boundless, Boundless Evening
I hear an Army
Mélodies passagères (cycle)
Monks and Raisins
Rain has fallen
Sleep now
Sure on this Shining Night
The Daisies
With rue my heart is laden
Beethoven
Adelaide
An die ferne Geliebte (cycle)
Der Kuß
Erlkönig
Ich liebe Dich
In questa tomba oscura
Neue Liebe,neues Leben
Wonne der Wehmut
Bolcom
Cabaret Songs:
At the piano Black Max
Murray the Furrier
Waitin’
Brahms
An die Nachtigall
Auf dem Kirchhofe
Botschaft
Die schöne Magelone (cycle)
Der Tod, das ist die kühle Nacht
Es schauen die Blumen
Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer
Juchhe!
Meerfahrt
Minnelied
O liebliche Wangen
O wüßt ich doch den Weg zurück
Sonntag
Ständchen
Tambourliedchen
Unbewegte, laue Luft
Vergebliches Ständchen
Vier ernste Gesänge (cycle)
Wie bist du meine Königin
Britten
On this Island (cycle)
Winter Words (cycle)
Songs and Proverbs of William Blake
Folksong arrangements, incl.:
David of the White Rock Il est quelqu’un sur terre
Le Roi s’en va-t’en chasse
Lord! I married me a wife
Moore’s Irish Melodies
The Ploughboy
O waly, waly
Quand j’étais chez mon père
She’s like the Swallow
Sweet Polly Oliver
The brisk young Widow
The Ash Grove
The Bird Scarer’s Song
The Sally Gardens
The foggy, foggy Dew
Butterworth
Six songs from “A Shropshire Lad” (cycle)
Copland
Old American Songs (cycle)
Debussy
Fêtes galantes (cycle)
Trois Ballades de François Villon (cycle)
Dowland
Flow not so fast, ye fountains
In darkness let me dwell
Flow my tears
Duparc
Extase
L’ invitation au voyage
Le manoir de Rosamonde
Phidylé
Soupir
Fauré
Automne
Chanson d’amour
Claire de lune
Fleur jetée
Green
La lune blanche lui dans les bois
Les roses d’ Ispahan
Lydia
Mai
Mandoline
llN e
Notre amour
Poême d’un Jour (cycle)
Rêve d’amour
Sylvie
Falla
Siete cançiones populares Españolas (cycle)
Greer
First to this Country (duo cycle with Mezzo Soprano)