Johnny H. Butler III, baritone, is a native of Washington, DC and holds a MM (Vocal) from the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music at The Catholic University of America. While at CUA, he was a scholarship recipient and studied under the direction of Professors Regina McConnell and Jason Stearns, respectively. Mr. Butler earned a BM Ed. (Vocal), from the University of the District of Columbia, where he was under the vocal tutelage of Professor Nelda Ormond. The UDC music faculty awarded him a music scholarship from the Colonial Dames XVII Century, given to students demonstrating musical excellence. Mr. Butler has also done further vocal study with Mark Oswald (MET Opera, Manhattan School of Music), Stanley Cornett (Peabody Conservatory), and with the late Louis Nabors at the Amalfi Coast Music Festival & Institute.

 

Mr. Butler’s operatic roles include ‘Guccio’ in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi’, ’Count Almaviva’ in ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’, ‘Cal’ in Marc Blitzstein’s ’Regina’, ‘Superintendent Budd’ in ‘Albert Herring’ and the‘2nd Man’ in’ The Tender Land’. He also sang the roles of ’the Armored Man’ in the Amalfi Coast Music Festival & Institute’s production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, ’Don Alfonso’ from Cosí fan tutte and the title role of the opera, Don Giovanni. Past solo cantata and oratorio performances include Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem, J.S. Bach’s Gott der Herris Sonn und Schild and Uns ist ein Kind geboren, Camille Saint-Saëns’ Oratorio de Noël, Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, Händel’s ‘Messiah’ and Théodore Dubois’ The Seven Last Words of Christ. Recital venues include the Washington Club, National City Christian Church, Shiloh Baptist Church and Wisconsin Avenue Baptist Church. Mr. Butler currently serves as the Director of Choral Activities at the University of the District of Columbia, and is an Applied Vocal teacher at Suitland High School, Center for Visual and Performing Arts.