A special one-night-only concert at the Waterfront Playhouse on January 4th

Clinton Curtis, a Key West native and 2002 graduate of Key West High School returns to Key West for a special one-night-only concert at the Waterfront Playhouse on Saturday January 4th at 8pm.  A dynamic band comprised of celebrated, multi-grammy-nominated musicians will join him onstage, along with some special, local surprise guests.   Clinton will play songs from his recent studio albums as well as a handful of standards from the Americana, Blues, Folk, Rock and Jazz songbook.

Clinton moved to New York City in 2002 and has enjoyed a wildly-diverse career in music since.   As a classical singer he has worked with many of the world’s luminary conductors and orchestras.  He has given more than 50 performances with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of Alan Gilbert,  Kurt Masur,  Esa-Pekka Solonen and Leonard Slatkin.  Other recent engagements include performances with The Vienna Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra the San Francisco Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic with Gustavo Dudamel. March 2016 marked his principal operatic debut in Curlew River for the Mark Morris Dance Group in New York. In 2019, Clinton performed in the world premier of David Lang’s triumphant opera Prisoner of the State with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.

Clinton is currently the featured vocalist with The Mark Morris Dance Group’s smash hit Pepperland featuring the music of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.   Premiering in Liverpool, UK in 2017,  Pepperland continues to tour internationally and in the US through 2021.

As a singer/songwriter and bandleader Clinton has leased 6 original studio albums on the record label 27 Sound.  The Clinton Curtis Band has toured internationally as cultural ambassadors with the US Department of State, including concerts in Turkmenistan, Saudi Arabia, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Colombia, Brazil and The Dominican Republic.

In 2004 Clinton was honored to receive the Tennessee Williams Award for the greatest contribution to the arts community in Key West, after a series of benefit concerts to raise money for the badly storm-damaged Tennessee Williams Fine Arts Center.   Along with his parents, Mark and Libby and his brother Daniel, Clinton was a long-standing member of the Keys Chorale.   Libby and Clinton have been perennial performers at the St Paul’s Christmas Concert.   He is a music student of Robin Kaplan in Key West since age 5.

January 4th at the Waterfront Playhouse marks Clinton’s first public performance in Key West in more than a decade  and his  first time performing his original songs.