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Jesse Rex Marson Barrett

@jesserexbarrett

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NYC-based performer | oboist, cor anglais-er | vocalist, actor, professional noise-maker | teacher

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“I Didn’ Know What Time It Was”
• by Rodgers & Hart
Carmel Bach Festival Gala 2025 ✨🎶
Jesse Barrett, voice & English horn
Lisa Edwards, piano 🎹😍💙👏
@clavierbabe11

We just wrapped up the 2025 Carmel Bach Festival this past weekend! 🎉😍😮‍💨🥰👏 Here’s a number from the Gala that kicked things off back on July 11th. @carmelbachfestival

Thanks to all the CBF teams for making, supporting, and celebrating so much great live music! And thanks for making this moment happen, Executive Director Nate Lutz and Music Director Grete Pedersen @sirnathanlutz @gretepede ✨👏✨

🎥: @edwardnelsonmusic
📸: @jonszin taken in Monterey Peninsula Country Club by @jesserexbarrett

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a year ago

It was a pleasure playing Joaquín Rodrigo’s “Concierto de Aranjuez” with @raphaelfguitar @leccechong and @srsymphony this past weekend at the @greenmusiccenter 🥰

Thanks, sneaky balcony videographer 🤩♥️👏

This clip is from the opening of the Concierto’s 2nd movement where the English horn trades off with the solo guitar, languidly spinning one of my all time favorite melodies. I love using these solos as a warm up - both for E. horn and voice 🤭🥰♥️

Thanks to maestro Francesco Lecce-Chong, guitarist Raphaël Feuillâtre, and the Santa Rosa Symphony. This is my 10th season making music at the Green Music Center.
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Our program also included the full ballet music from Manuel de Falla’s “El sombrero de tres picos [The Three-Cornered Hat]” which featured the vocal stylings and flare of mezzo-soprano @leah.finn 👏💃🏻🇪🇸 and one of the most badass English horn cadenzas to boot 🪩

‘Twas a good week. Miss you already, CA 🌉🌲🌅 taken in Green Music Center by @jesserexbarrett

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a year ago

✨ Carmel Bach Festival 2026 ✨

It’s so rare that we get to perform together, let alone a month-long festival! We had FOUR programs together and played music from Haydn to Poulenc to Coragliano, and Jesse was able to bring his “Classical Cabaret” to a new audience.

Thank you to @carmelbachfestival, @gretepede, and Nathan Lutz for gifting us this beautiful month of music! 🥰

Bernstein - “Something’s Coming” (West Side Story)

Poulenc - Sonata for Oboe & Piano (mvt. 1)

Poulenc - “Malvina” (Le bal masqué)

Copland - Quiet City

Haydn - The Seasons (Spring, mvt. 1)

Mozart - Oboe Quartet (mvt. 1)

“Misty” - Erroll Garner

Coragliano - The Food of Love

“Ten Cents A Dance” - Rodgers & Hart

“A Sleepin’ Bee” - Harold Arlen & Truman Capote

Weill - “Beat! Beat! Drums!” (Four Whitman Songs)

Weill - “O Captain! My Captain!” (Four Whitman Songs)

Weill - “Come up from the fields, father!” (Four Whitman Songs)

“Blue Bayou” - Roy Orbison

“Jazz” 🤪 taken in Carmel by the Sea by @jesserexbarrett

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Season opening gala at @metopera … this year, from the other side of the curtain!

An important night for our industry to show what we can offer the world. The singing carried the night, as it should, and we couldn’t have enjoyed it with a better crew. 🥂

Grateful for singular New York nights like these!! Thanks for including us @simondyates & @kevinroon 🩵 taken in The Metropolitan Opera by @jesserexbarrett

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13 days ago

First time on the Adriatic Sea 🌊

Wrapping up our summer travels and feeling beyond grateful to have experienced the tremendous beauty of this corner of the world with amazing new friends. 🩵💙

Venice - Dalmatian Coast - Split taken in Adriatic Coast by @jesserexbarrett

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It’s hard to be underdressed in Fire Island, but we’d never let that stop us! 😘

Thanks to our amazing hosts, @kevinroon & @simondyates, for the perfect first weekend together in this singular paradise. taken in Fire Island Pines by @jesserexbarrett

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2 months ago

We love you San Francisco! 💙
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That’s a wrap! Thank you all for an amazing gala and season! ✨
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Special shoutouts to our incredible emcee @jesserexbarrett our amazing guest artists Melinda Campero @melindacampero Grahame Lesh @grahamelesh and Avi Vinocur @avispersonalprofile and our very own Scott Padden @iwillbeamyouup for your incredible performances! 🤩
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Our silent auction is still open through tomorrow night! Head to our link in bio to check out our awesome collection of items and make your bid today!
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#sanfrancisco #gala #party #vengabus #music #orchestra #onefoundsound #cool #love by @jesserexbarrett

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a year ago

🍯 HONEYMOON 🌝

A very belated honeymoon, that is… but SO fun to relive the newlywed vibes in Tulum, seven months after the big day!

@conradtulumrivieramaya was pristine and giving major White Lotus vibes. We couldn’t have had a better time, wasting away in the Caribbean sun for a week.

Did anything happen while we were gone??

TAKE US BACK!

(And yes, we DID spend every morning and sunset at the hidden, secret swings outside our room 🌴) taken in Conrad Tulum Riviera Maya by @jesserexbarrett

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7 months ago

Just wrapped: Off-Broadway debut at Lincoln Center Theatre with Joyce DiDonato, a truly marvelous cast and crew, under the brilliant direction and guidance of Kenny Leon, with Ioana Alfonso and Heather Lang!!! @lctheater @joycedidonato @iamkennyleon @ioanaalfonso @heatherblee

• Amahl and the Night Visitors, by Gian Carlo Menotti •

In their company, every day was a masterclass, a sermon, a lesson, an opportunity, and a BUCKET OF BLESSINGS. I could not and cannot contain my emotions around these people, and I’m forever grateful.

Dear Joyce and our Amahl, AJ @albertrhodesjr ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 - getting to start and end every show with you has cracked me open as a performer and a person with SO MUCH LOVE and beautiful music! 🥰♥️👏 TOTAL JOY!!!✨💫✨

What a pleasure to weave such magic together, especially with our magnificent music director Steven Osgood, alongside piano loves Nathaniel LaNasa and Riko Higuma 🪄🎹🎹♥️ @srosgood @nathaniellanasa @riko2d2

Also, thanks to the *real* shepherds, our stage management team 😂👏: Bonnie Panson, Danielle Ranno, Alexis Nalbandian, Jack Ganguly ✨🌟✨
@beepan212 @danielleranno @alexisnalbandian @jack.ganguly

Love to our Kings, @philliptheboycan @toddthomasbaritone @bernarddamonholcomb
👑👑👑💛❤️💙 our costume designer Emilio Sosa, @esosafashion 😍✨and lighting designer Adam Honoré @itsadamhonore ✨🌟♥️ keeping us proper sparkly.✨

Final bows 📸: Ali Wonderly @aliwonderly 😘👏

Some sneaky little clips from the show 🎥🤭🥹: 1st preview finale and shepherds dance (unseen beautiful dancing: @bryannastricklandd @manu_arte7 @madster7 ), xmas eve finale/aka Joyce moving me to tears every time, more dancey pants, and some closing show shepherds singing “goodnight”. 🌙😭🌟

This cast of talented hooligans has my heart forever - I’m sure sure sure. 🥹♥️🥰 taken in Lincoln Center Theater by @jesserexbarrett

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9 months ago

Off-Broadway Debut 🥰💙✨
Amahl and the Night Visitors
Halfway through our holiday run at Lincoln Center Theater!!! ✨♥️✨

This show is pure joy as was every bit of putting it together.✨👏✨

Directed by: Kenny Leon @iamkennyleon
Music Direction: Steven Osgood @srosgood
Stage Manager: Bonnie Panson @beepan212
Lighting Design: Adam Honoré @itsadamhonore
Costume Design: Emilio Sosa @esosafashion

Some snaps of most of the gang. ♥️♥️♥️
Photo Credits: Michaelah Reynolds @michaelah.jpg , Jonathan McCullough @johannmccullough , Rebecca J. Michelson @rebeccajmichelson taken in Lincoln Center Theater by @jesserexbarrett

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9 months ago

✨🥂 Goodbye 2025 🥂✨

Married the man of my dreams and moved from San Francisco to New York together. There was lots of music in there too, but this was the important stuff.

@jesserexbarrett 💍🩵 by @jesserexbarrett

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9 months ago

NYC debut… at LINCOLN CENTER?!?
😱🤯🥹

Actual dreams coming true walking into day 1 of rehearsals at Lincoln Center, prepared to both play oboe and sing in the cast of a new production of AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS… directed by Tony-winner Kenny Leon and starring opera superstar Joyce DiDonato.
🤩👑😍

Thanks, Sean Peter Forte for texting me that morning in New York months ago, and helping those lovely folks find a “(musician first)…solid singer but also plays the oboe well” - Lol.🤭🤗😱 @seanpeterforte 🥰

AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS
by Gian Carlo Menotti

Lincoln Center Theater
Mitzi Newhouse Theater

Director: @iamkennyleon
Music Director: @srosgood
Starring: @joycedidonato

Previews: Dec. 16, 17, 2025
Run: Dec. 18 - Jan. 4, 2026 taken in Lincoln Center Theater by @jesserexbarrett

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