Thomas Studebaker, voice
Thomas Studebaker is an Assistant Professor of Voice and
Director of the Lyric Theater Program at Butler 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.
A member of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program from
1996 to 1999 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 Lyric Opera of Chicago,
Seattle Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Teatro
Municipal de Santiago, Chile, L'Opéra de Montréal, Sarasota Opera
Association, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Opera Theatre of Saint
Louis, Lake George Opera Festival,Opera Australia, Teatro Colón in
Buenos Aires, Pittsburgh Opera, Knoxville Opera and the Peoria
Civic Opera.
In addition, he has enjoyed a successful concert career, having
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.
He has sung under the baton of such distinguished conductors as
Kurt Masur, Lorin Maazel, James Levine, Sir Charles Mackerras, Kent
Nagano, Roberto Abbado and Jesús López-Cobos to name only a few. 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. He can also be heard with the Atlanta Symphony
Orchestra in a Vaughan Williams performance on the Telarc
label.
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