Shades of Pink Foundation
Summer Concert With John Riesen
Tuesday, August 10
6:30pm @ Goldner Walsh
559 Orchard Lake Rd.
Pontiac, MI
SPONSORED BY
VIP - $100 (Includes Wine, Charcuterie and VIP seating in the first 3 rows.)
General Admission $40
Doors open @ 6:00pm. Arrive early to shop Goldner Walsh Garden & Home.
About John Riesen:
Hailed as “impassioned...and vibrant” (Opera Today), award-winning American tenor John Riesen is consistently impressing audiences with his "fantastic, powerful voice" (Texarkana Gazette). Riesen’s growing career boasts a variety of roles in which he excels and includes significant work in opera, musical theatre, studio recording and concert. He has performed around the world at such esteemed houses as the Lincoln Center, The Detroit Opera House, The Pacific Symphony and will be making his Carnegie Hall debut as the tenor soloist in the Messiah Dec 2021. He has released two studio recording albums: What You'd Call a Dream (2019) and Christmas at Home (2020), and several singles including, "What a Wonderful World (2021)" "Broken Vow (2021)" and "Can't Help Falling in Love with You (2021)" that have reached over 1 million streams on Spotify and Apple Music. He has also collaborated with Emmy-nominated PBS TV pianist Marina Arsenijevic in both video performance (during COVID-19) and in studio recordings. John is an avid athlete, and is playing AA minor league baseball this summer and is sponsored by Nokona Leather.
He has also been privileged to sing for political figures, including President Barack Obama, President Jimmy Carter, Judge Stephanie Kulp Seymour and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
