Lon E. voice, technique, opera, music theater, performance practice Chicago, IL

Come see how Lon's experience and training can benefit your vocal development!

Recent performances include the Bach B-minor Mass with the Madison Bach Musicians this May which received broad acclaim in Madison, Wisconsin. (madisonbachmusicians.org)

Also the Handel Dettinger Te Deum at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel this May with the RMC Choir and Baroque Band. (rockefeller.uchicago.edu). 

Lon also appeared in the role of the "Spirit" in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with the Chicago Opera Theater's (chicagooperatheater.org) 2006 season, garnering great reviews from the Chicago Tribune, Opera News and other publications.

Lon began voice training in the boys choir school tradition with the Kantorei of Rockford under Linden Lundstrom, singing soprano solos in the Bach Magnificat and Vivaldi Gloria. He earned a B.A. in German Language and Literature from Beloit College, and an M.A. in Vocal Pedagogy from Northeastern Illinois University with a baritone recital of Schubert, Wolf, Strauss, Berg, Weill, and Chicago composer John Giles. He sang baritone and tenor with the Grant Park Symphony Chorus, the Chicago Symphony Chorus, the Light Opera Works, and in recital in Hungary. Lon earned his Doctor of Music in Voice and Opera in the countertenor Fach from Northwestern University.

Additional solo credits include Bach's Johannes-Passion and Handel's Messiah at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel at the University of Chicago. “Live from Studio One” on WFMT in Monteverdi’s Scherzi Musicali, Bernstein’s Missa Breviswith the Chicago Choral Artists, a recital performance of Vivaldi’s Nisi Dominus (a solo-cantata setting of Psalm 126), Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus at Northwestern’s Dunbar Early Music Festival which garnered glowing reviews, a recital of seventeenth century consort works by Heinrich Bach, Franz Tunder, Heinrich Schütz, and Dietrich Buxtehude in Vail Chapel, Purcell’s Bell Anthem with the Mozart Sinfonia, and additional doctoral recital work featuring Ich habe genug - Schlummert ein (BWV 82), arias from Bach’s B-minor Mass, Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Glass’s Akhnaten, Handel's Partenope, and the premier of Five Romantic Songs by Chicago composer Michael Gustav Miller.

You can expect to receive vocal training which focuses on matters of technique and styling tailored to your voice - based on careful objective listening and solid pedagogical principles. You will learn how to become the best expert on your own voice as each new discovery brings delight and renewed challenge.

voice, technique, opera, music theater, performance practice