|
|
|
|
William McGraw
William McGraw, Professor of Voice. BM, Baylor U.; MM,
Performer’s Cert., Indiana U. Has performed opera, oratorio,
and various concert works as well as recitals and master
classes, both nationally and internationally. Mr. McGraw’s
operatic roles include Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia,
Marcello in La Boheme, Rigoletto in Rigoletto, Enrico in
Lucia di Lammermoor, and John Proctor in The Crucible.
These and other roles have been performed with such
companies as Greater Miami Opera, Indianapolis Opera,
Maracaibo Venezuela Opera, Shreveport Opera, and Boston
Opera, to name but a few. Mr. McGraw has performed such
concert works as Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Mahler’s Eighth
Symphony, Brahms’s Ein Deutsches Requiem, and Orff’s
Carmina Burana with such symphony orchestras as those of
Seattle, Indianapolis, Memphis, New Jersey, and Cincinnati.
Also significant are Carnegie Hall performances as soloist in
conjunction with the New York Choral Society. Recently
performed with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra as
Manuel in Falla’s La Vida Breve (recorded on Telarc), and as
soloist in Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite with the CSO, Werner
Klemperer as narrator. Other recent professional engagements
include leading roles with the Dayton and Indianapolis opera
companies, a featured recital on the J. Paul Getty Museum
Concert Series, and recitals and master classes at Emory
University, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Hollins
College, and Ferrum College. In 1995, Mr. McGraw was
honored by Baylor University as an Omicron Delta Kappa
Man of Merit, an award presented in recognition of outstand-ing
accomplishments. Students and former students of Mr.
McGraw have performed or are performing in the opera
houses of Bonn, Bremen, Paris, Mannheim, Freiburg,
Salzburg, San Francisco, Houston, Indianapolis, Santa Fe,
New York City Opera on tour, Cincinnati, and others.
Faculty, CCM since 1986..78
|
|
|
|
|
|
UC Home 
