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This unique, behind-the-curtain experience will bring the audience into the opera rehearsal hall as one of the world's top baritones, Jason Howard, works with the next generation of opera artists! About the Artist Jason Howard, baritone, was born and raised in South Wales, UK. A singer since childhood, in his twenties he left his fire fighting career and Wales to study singing full time, firstly at Trinity College of Music, and then the Royal College of Music, London with John Wakefield and Norman Bailey respectively. He was made a fellow of Trinity College of Music in 1987. Other mentors during his career have included, Carlo Bergonzi, Alfredo Kraus, Giorgio Tozzi and acclaimed English baritone, Peter Glossop. Vocal instruction has played a big part in Mr. Howard’s career and he has taught peripatetically since his first year as a singer. Among the institutions where he has given masterclasses are Minnesota Opera, Edmonton Opera, Welsh National Opera, The University of Washington and The University of Alberta. In 2016 he was on faculty at the Taos Opera Institute in New Mexico. His most recent masterclass was at the University of Windsor, Ontario in January 2020. After a distinguished thirty-one year, international career, Mr. Howard was named Professor of Voice at The Glenn Gould School (The Royal Conservatory of Music) in Toronto. We gratefully acknowledge our generous sponsors for this event: INCITE Foundation for the Arts, Pieczonka Family Foundation, Nadine and Les McLean, J. Peter and Helene Hunt.
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