So I've been invited to sing in a benefit concert in Toronto in March. It seems weird to be writing a singing biography, after all the time I've spent working on my medical CV and essays. Here's what I came up with. It's not terribly creative, but it works.
Tenor, Beach Bum, has performed across Canada, and in the US, the Caribbean, and England; in a variety of genres including opera, oratorio, and musical theatre. His credits include: Ralph (HMS Pinafore), Rolf (Sound of Music), and Harry (What about luv?). He has appeared as tenor soloist in works by Mozart (Requiem, Solemn Vespers), Handel (Messiah), Haydn (Lord Nelson Mass), and Stainer (Crucifixion). He has performed with ensembles including the Saskatoon Symphony, Opera NUOVA, the International Symphony Orchestra, the St. Paul’s Cathedral Choir and Orchestra, the Parry Sound Choral Collective, and Musical Theatre Productions, London, Ontario.
In addition to performing, he has worked as organist for churches across Canada and England, taught music and drama, and directed and stage managed for theatre companies in Alberta and Ontario.
He is currently studying voice with Jean Ronald LaFond, based in New York and Berlin. He holds undergraduate degrees in music and biology, and recently completed his MD degree. He will be starting a Family Medicine residency this summer.
7 comments:
Hi, I've been following your blog for a while (but never commented). I'm a non-trad pre-med who studied voice as an undergrad, so we have a little bit in common. What are you going to sing at the benefit?
E. - I'm not sure what I'm going to sing. I submitted a rep list to the organiser, who has yet to finalize it. It's probably going to be party pieces. Dein ist mein ganzes herz, De miei bollenti spiriti, O sole mio, and perhaps some ensembles from Boheme.
I've been reading your blog...feel free to email me. Medicine can be soul destroying, and when you are an artist, and have trained yourself to feel intensely, it can be that much worse.
Take care of yourself.
Hi Beach Bum,
Thanks for your comment(s) in my blog. I was going to e-mail you, but I didn't notice your e-mail address posted anywhere on your blog. It's probably straight in front of me somewhere and I'm being oblivious.
A lot of what you wrote really resonated with me. And I too, seem to resent anyone who is doing anything (even one of the aides I work with who's going to nursing school, which I don't even want to do). It is easy to feel trapped, but I guess the cardboard box scenario is a good thing to keep in mind.
I've stopped singing almost entirely. When I left Oberlin and knew I had chosen to give up a career in voice, it was like a permanent punch in the stomach. I could barely go to concerts without shaking in my boots. It took me years to get over that... I still don't know if I entirely am. Sometimes I listen to the Met broadcasts on NPR and will hear one of my friends is in the cast and it's just too much to deal with. You'd think I'd be excited, and on one level I am, but it just makes me feel like I'm wasting my life away.
Anyway, I don't want to take over your blog with never-ending comments (although I don't mind if you do), so I'll stop running my mouth, or fingers or something. By the way, my e-mail address is elspeth.greene@gmail.com
hi, good site very much appreciatted
Man I wish I can sing. Sadly, the only thing I'm good at is sex.
Congrats on finishing med school! I'll be done this year too. Dude, you're going to be an awesome doctor! I wish I can say the same for myself.
Hey - Really excited to find musician/medical people. I'm at the beginning of my medical journey and the middle of my musician journey - excited to follow!
Wow! That's a lot of accomplishment, but bizarre accomplishments for a typical MD, eh. If I am the employer, surely I will hire you. :)
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