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Jon Fredric

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Experienced tutor in Singing in Utica, Jon Fredric offers private lessons tailored to your needs.

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About Jon Fredric

I know what I am doing. I sang all over the world and was one of the top Heldentenors of my generation. I have students in many of the major conservatories. In short, if you want to be the best, then study with the best. I have taught for over 35 years but more since I retired from the stage. I have given Master Classes all over the world.

JON FREDRIC WEST, Heldentenor

Celebrating his 50th year of singing before the public, Mr. West became one of the top Heldentenors in the world of his generation. The tenor has sung in all the major opera houses, concert halls and orchestras throughout his career. At the Metropolitan Opera, he distinguished himself as the only heldentenor of recent history to sing all six performances of Wagner’s Ring Cycle,

“The Ring of the Nibelungen”, after which he was awarded a standing ovation after each act of each opera of each performance.

Mr. West has performed with the Metropolitan Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, San Francisco Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Milano, Teatro dell’ Opera, Rome, The Royal Opera at Covent Garden, Bayerischer Staatsoper, Wiener Staatsoper, Deutscher Oper Berlin, Dresden’s Semperoper, Theatre du Chatelet, Opera de Nice, Theatre Champs Elysee, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Frankfurt Oper, NHK and the Bunka Keikan in Japan, Opera de Santiago, Chile, Teatro de Opera Colombia, Opera de Oviedo and Teatro Royal de Madrid.

The tenor was uniquely chosen for the Grand Re-Opening of The Prinzregententheater of Munich, Germany by Maestro Lorin Maazel and The Schirmherrn of German Theaters, the great director August Everding. The performances were broadcast live and subsequently three more times over European cable channels. Having sung most of the important dramatic roles of R. Wagner as well as R. Strauss’ canon, the tenor was hailed as “perfectly cast and most vocally convincing Siegfried ever heard in an opera house”. Mr. West quickly established himself as the world’s foremost interpreter of Siegfried in “Siegfried” and Siegfried in “Goetterdaemmerung”.

Mr.West further established himself in the title role of Tristan in “Tristan und Isolde. Klaus Geitel said of Mr. West in Die Welt; “Jon Fredric West is the kind of Tristan you seldom hear with any comparable balance of presentation. Without the least sign of exhaustion, he sings through to the conclusion with a fresh voice, even in the murderous chain of hallucinations under which he dies to meet “Isolde’s arrival”.

A frequent guest of the Salzburger Festspiele, Easter Festspiele, Edinburgh Festival, the May Festival (Cinncinnati and Ann Arbor), The BBC Proms,

The Maggio Musicale in Florence, The Canary Islands Music Festival and the San Sebastian Festival under the baton of Hans Graf, where critics praised the tenor’s performance as “the Tristan of a lifetime”.

Mr. West has made many Cds and Dvds of complete opera and concert songs. His

Dvd of “Siegfried” released through Euro Arts and Naxos won the Best Ring Cycle Award DVD in 2004 and was listed on the German Critics Top Ten List of 2004.

His recording of Schubert’s greatest cycle, “Winterreise” with the great pianist Jerome Rose led to a Grammy nomination. The critic for (concealed information) said; “If there was a single highlight to the festival, it was most certainly a stunning reading by Mr. Rose and the dramatic heldentenor Jon Fredric West of Schubert’s haunting song cycle “Winterreise”.

Mr. West has collaborated throughout his long career with such notable conductors as; James Levine, Zubin Mehta, Lorin Maazel, Claudio Abbado, James Conlin, Sir Simon Rattle, Christoph von Eschenbach, Sir Andrew Davis, Sir Alexander Gibson, Sir Colin Davis, Michael Tilson-Thomas, Eugene Ormandy, Semyon Bychkov, Bernard Haitink, Lukas Foss, and Christian Thieleman.

Jon Fredric West D.M.A is a native of Dayton, Ohio, having studied at Bowling Green State University where he received a Bachelor of Music Major in Vocal Performance. His graduate work was done at Manhattan School of Music and at The Juilliard American Opera Center. In 2006 Mr. West was awarded a Doctorate of Musical Arts, Honoris Causa which carries full rights and privileges from his Alma Mater. In 2010 he was recognized with the prestigious, “Centennial Award of the 100 Most Influential People in 100 Years of Bowling Green State University”.

He has lectured and given master classes at many opera companies and universities throughout the United States and around the world.

Having singers in private studio who have succeeded in both opera and oratorio, he currently has students on full scholarships to Carnegie-Mellon, Hart School of Music and the Manhattan School of Music as well as a career Heldentenor (Clay Hilley) that just won 1st place in the prestigious Wagner Society of New York’s Wagner competition. He was the first person to win 1st place in six years.

{Completing his 50th year of performing before the public, Mr. West continues to sing and on September the 24th at 7:30 right here at Hamilton College, Wellin Hall, will bring us “A Celebration of Fifty Years of Singing” with the world famous pianist and accompanist, Sar Shalom-Strong and with guest pianist and accompanist Kenneth Bowen. Donations will be accepted for the B Sharp Scholarship Fund that benefits young high school age musicians for their continued lessons and expenses.}

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Jon Fredric West, D.M.A., was one of the top Heldentenors in the world of his generation. His vast experience includes leading role performances with the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Prinzregenten Academie, DeutscheOper, Staatstheater Stuttgart, Semperoper Dresden,Wienerstaatsoper, Salzburg Easter Festival, Salzburg Oper Festival, Berlin Philharmanic, Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, Casals Festival, Music Festival of the Canaries Islands, Residentie Orkest de Haag, Teatro Royale de Madrid, Teatro alla Scala, Grand Theatre de Nice, Chatellet de Paris, Bunka Kaiken of Tokyo, NHK, San Francisco Opera, New Israeli Opera, Washington National Opera, Kennedy Center, Miami Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Austin Lyric Opera, Arizona Opera,

Portland Opera,New York Philharmanic, Bayerische Rundfunk, Maggio Musical, Cincinnati Symphony and May Festival, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Montreal Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Houston Symphony, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony, Saint Louis Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, London Symphony Orchestra. He currently maintains a private teaching and coaching studio, teaches at Hamilton College and at Mohawk Valley Community College.

Everthing about it!

Always taught along side my career. My mother, father and brother were teachers. I could teach before I had a famous career.

50 years in the singing profession

Sang at every major opera hose in the world

BM in Vocal Performance

D.M.A.

About the lesson

We begin by listening and determining where you are and at what level vocally. Then we set a course of action that is tailor made for each student,but based on the traditional Italian Bel Canto use of the voice. Classical Broadway. Folk, Art Song, Oratorio and Opera will be used as well as Vocalises such as Vaccai.

Professionals, Liberal Arts students, amateurs, young people from 10 years and older

Hire the best. Hire someone that had sung at the Metropolitan Opera.

I am giving my Celebration of 50 years of singing on September 24th at 7:30 at Hamilton College.

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Just sing something that you consider is the best song in your voice, not necessarily the hardest, just the best.

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Neva

Dear Jon, Thanks for your energy - and your combination of encouragement and admonition. I've got plenty to think about and work on - which is just the way I like it. Tracee had a great time meeting you and Sharon and spending some time together at your beautiful place. I will start putting this forward at Mannes - where I think you could find a natural starting point and student/fans. Your insights into character portrayal and experiences on stage are very very helpful, allowing those coming along later to 'stand on the shoulders of giants' and not begin again from the ground up. I'm going to get hooked up with my doctor friend and get serious about my sinus problems. It has been with me in one form or another all my life - so like background noise, I have never really considered it as a factor of control or change. Technically speaking - you are adding the links between some disparate information I have been given throughout my singing life. The key ingredient that is allowing the incorporation (for me) of breath, jaw and tongue issues, and vowel is the management of chest. I am convinced that the overlooking of this item in male voices leads to a lot of overbuilding and reliance on brilliance that gives us 'hollowed out' sounds as people concentrate on high notes. Anyway --- little details, like a a consideration of the proper lip position now actually are useful, where they weren't before. This is sort of a final integrating process which takes information accumulated over DECADES and puts them in concert. WOW. This is a long note -- so I''' wind it up. I will come see you soon as I have some funds available, and please thank Sharon as well for her insight. Tracee and I are grateful and energized, and I hope someday to sing some of these roles well enough to reflect some much deserved credit to you.
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Neva
Dear Jon, Thanks for your energy - and your combination of encouragement and admonition. I've got plenty to think about and work on - which is just the way I like it. Tracee had a great time meeting you and Sharon and spending some time together at your beautiful place. I will start putting this forward at Mannes - where I think you could find a natural starting point and student/fans. Your insights into character portrayal and experiences on stage are very very helpful, allowing those coming along later to 'stand on the shoulders of giants' and not begin again from the ground up. I'm going to get hooked up with my doctor friend and get serious about my sinus problems. It has been with me in one form or another all my life - so like background noise, I have never really considered it as a factor of control or change. Technically speaking - you are adding the links between some disparate information I have been given throughout my singing life. The key ingredient that is allowing the incorporation (for me) of breath, jaw and tongue issues, and vowel is the management of chest. I am convinced that the overlooking of this item in male voices leads to a lot of overbuilding and reliance on brilliance that gives us 'hollowed out' sounds as people concentrate on high notes. Anyway --- little details, like a a consideration of the proper lip position now actually are useful, where they weren't before. This is sort of a final integrating process which takes information accumulated over DECADES and puts them in concert. WOW. This is a long note -- so I''' wind it up. I will come see you soon as I have some funds available, and please thank Sharon as well for her insight. Tracee and I are grateful and energized, and I hope someday to sing some of these roles well enough to reflect some much deserved credit to you.
Clay

More breaking news: I thank Francesca Zambello and Jake Gardner daily for introducing me to the celebrated Heldentenor Jon Fredric West at Glimmerglass in 2012. Jon is now my teacher, and has thoroughly revolutionized my sound. What a lucky guy I am to sit at the feet of such an operatic giant to learn all the "ins and outs" of this challenging heroic repertoire.
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Clay
More breaking news: I thank Francesca Zambello and Jake Gardner daily for introducing me to the celebrated Heldentenor Jon Fredric West at Glimmerglass in 2012. Jon is now my teacher, and has thoroughly revolutionized my sound. What a lucky guy I am to sit at the feet of such an operatic giant to learn all the "ins and outs" of this challenging heroic repertoire.
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