Cellist Zuill Bailey

>> American cellist Zuill Bailey was born in Alexandria and studied with a cellist from the National Symphony Orchestra and then at Johns Hopkins before going to Juilliard and becoming an internationally known musician. He will come back to the area for a recital on Tuesday (May 4, 7:30 p.m.) with pianist Orion Weiss, sponsored by Washington Performing Arts Society in the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater.

>> American tenor Anthony Dean Griffey will give a recital for Vocal Arts Society, on Wednesday (May 5, 7:30 p.m.) with pianist Warren Jones at the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater. The program includes a set of traditional folk songs, accompanied by Paul Brown on the fiddle and banjo.

>> On Friday night (May 7, 7:30 p.m.), mega-soprano Christine Brewer gives a recital with pianist Craig Rutenberg at the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater. The program is one-half art song (Gluck, Marx, Strauss) and one-half an assortment of American popular song.

>> A week of excellent singers is rounded off by mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux and tenor Kenneth Tarver, in the performance of Rossini’s La Cenerentola, or Cinderella, by Washington Concert Opera on Sunday night (May 9, 6 p.m.) at Lisner Auditorium.

MAKE IT FREE:
>> Washington Bach Consort’s Noontime Cantata series concludes for the season on Tuesday (May 4, 12:10 p.m.), a free lunchtime performance of Bach’s Erschallet, ihr Lieder, BWV 172, at the Church of the Epiphany (1317 G St. NW).

>> Also on Tuesday (May 4, 6 p.m.) the Art Song Discovery Series, sponsored by Vocal Arts Society, will present sopranos Jennifer Holbrook and Aundi Marie Moore in a free recital with pianist R. Timothy McReynolds at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage.

>> The Wednesday concert series at St. John’s, Lafayette Square continues this Wednesday (May 5, 12:10 p.m.), with a recital by trumpeter Brandon Eubank.