Thomas Studebaker, voice
Thomas Studebaker is an Assistant Professor of Voice at Butler
University. From 2004-2011, he served as an adjunct instructor of
voice at Belmont University. Mr. Studebaker earned a Master of
Music in Opera from Curtis Institute of Music and a Bachelor of
Music in Voice from Illinois State University. He also completed
further studies at the Chautauqua Vocal School and the Blossom
Festival School.
A member of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at
the Met, Mr. Studebaker had his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in
1997, in Richard Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos. Since then, he has
sung over 60 performances with the company. He has also held
countless other roles at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Seattle Opera,
Florida Grand Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Teatro Municipal in Santiago,
Chile, L'Opera de Montreal, Sarasota Opera Association, Opera
Company of Philadelphia, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Lake George
Opera Festival,Opera Australia, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires,
Pittsburgh Opera, Knoxville Opera and the Peoria Civic Opera. He
has performed with the New York Philharmonic, Westdeutscher
Rundfunks Orchester, Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Richmond
Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, American
Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Breckenridge
Music Institute Orchestra, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Kyoto
Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic
Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Montreal Symphony
Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Radio
Philharmonic Orchestra, Opera Orchestra of New York, Israel
Philharmonic Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Pittsburgh
Symphony Orchestra, Louisville Symphony Orchestra, Hunstville
Symphony, Nagoya Philharmonic, Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and
Symphonica d'Italia . In recognition of his outstanding performance
ability, he was given a career grant from the Richard Tucker Music
Foundation, the Kirsten Flagstad Memorial Award from the George
London Foundation, and the Wagner Award from the Liederkranz
Foundation. In 1996 he was awarded the Robert M. Jacobson Study
Grant from the Richard Tucker Music Foundation, and he is a
two-time NATS Central Region Audition winner.
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