tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-297065792011-04-21T11:07:51.859-07:00paalnoreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29706579.post-1161766993146724792006-10-25T02:02:00.000-07:002007-03-21T13:53:29.477-07:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/85/2204/320/DSC_0054swc.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/85/2204/160/DSC_0054swc.jpg" border="0" /></a><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/85/2204/320/DSC_0046sw.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/85/2204/160/DSC_0046sw.jpg" border="0" /></a><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/85/2204/320/DSC_0149-1.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/85/2204/160/DSC_0149-1.jpg" border="0" /></a><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/85/2204/320/DSC_0110sw.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/85/2204/160/DSC_0110sw.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%;" lang="en-US"><span style=";font-family:courier new;font-size:100%;" >Paul Kirby, hailed for his warm tone and musical intelligence is one of today’s outstanding young lyric tenors. He has garnered critical acclaim for his beautiful singing and also for the depth and originality of his portrayals. With an unusually wide repertoire ranging from medieval monophonic song through baroque, classical and romantic opera and song to late-twentieth century opera and concert works, he distinguishes himself on the stages and in the concert halls of Europe, Scandinavia and North America.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%;" lang="en-US"><span style=";font-family:courier new;font-size:100%;" >American-born and now a resident of Norway, Paul Kirby received his education at Blackburn College in Illinois and also at Boston University, where he pursued the Masters Degree and also the Diploma from the Opera Institute. While at Blackburn College, he was awarded the Mueller Humanities Fellowship, and at Boston University was a Director’s Award and the prestigious Kahn Career Entry Award. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.5cm; line-height: 150%;" lang="en-US"><span style=";font-family:courier new;font-size:100%;" >As a concert soloist, Paul Kirby has performed with such renowned and varied ensembles as Emmanuel Music, Sequentia, Huelgas Ensemble, Vox Resonat, Les Arts Florissants, Grex Vocalis, Oslo Domkor, Les Solistes de Lyon Bernard Tétu, Ensemble Antiphona, the Boston Camerata, Tragicomedia, and the Handel and Haydn Society. He has recorded for the Harmonia Mundi, Sony Classics, Afka, Marc-Aurel Editions, and Koch International labels. Paul has performed with conductors such as Seiji Ozawa, William Christie, Christopher Hogwood, Paul Van Nevel, Claudio Abbado, Daniel Harding, Emmanuel Villaume, Yves Abel, John Harbison, Martin Pearlman, Dennis Russel Davies, Stephen Stubbs, Paul Van Nevel, Valentin Reymond, Christophe Coin, Terje Kvam, and Carl Høgset.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></p><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> Photos by Derek Moore! <a href="http://derek-moore.com/">www.derek-moore.com</a></span><br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" lang="en-US"><br /></p><br /><br /><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29706579-116176699314672479?l=paulkirbycv.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>paalnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29706579.post-1150297968904348772006-06-14T08:05:00.000-07:002007-01-27T18:08:29.271-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_BKbu7xodb98/RbwFkNIDzKI/AAAAAAAAAIE/khPaKPlkaGs/s1600-h/DSC_0048.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_BKbu7xodb98/RbwFkNIDzKI/AAAAAAAAAIE/khPaKPlkaGs/s200/DSC_0048.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5024897403795524770" border="0" /></a><br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0.5cm;"><span style="font-family:Impact, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;font-size:85%;" ><br />Paul Kirby</span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.5cm;"><span style="font-family:Impact, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;font-size:85%;" >contact info:</span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.5cm;"><span style="font-family:Impact, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;font-size:85%;" >paul@paulkirby.no<br /><br /><br /><b>Staged Works</b></span></span></p> <ul><li><p><span style="font-family:Impact, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;font-size:85%;" >Prologue/Peter Quint Britten Turn of the Screw Opéra-Théâtre Metz</span></span></p> </li></ul> <ul><li><p><span style="font-family:Impact, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;font-size:85%;" >Tamino Mozart Die Zauberflöte Opéra de Massy </span></span> </p> </li></ul> <ul><li><p><span style="font-family:Impact, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;font-size:85%;" >Tom Rakewell Stravinsky The Rake’s Progress The Opera Lab, Boston </span></span> </p> </li></ul> <ul><li><p><span style="font-family:Impact, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;font-size:85%;" >Albert Britten Albert Herring Boston University Opera </span></span> </p> </li></ul> <ul><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Impact, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;font-size:85%;" >Almaviva Rossini Il Barbiere di Siviglia Festival Lyrique de St. Céré,</span></span></p> </li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Impact, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;font-size:85%;" >First Shepherd Monteverdi Orfeo Opera of St. Louis</span></span></p> </li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Impact, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;font-size:85%;" >Consiglio Cavalieri Rap. Di Animo et di Corpo Tragicomedia</span></span></p> </li><li><p><span style="font-family:Impact, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;font-size:85%;" >Joseph Méhul La Légende de Joseph Théâtre Fr. Musique</span></span></p> </li></ul> <p><br /><br /></p> <ul><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family:Impact, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;font-size:85%;" >Prince Caprice Offenbach Le voyage dans la Lune Opera-Théâtre Metz Artisan/Seigneur</span></span></p> </li><li><p><span style="font-family:Impact, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;font-size:85%;" >Bizet La Jolie Fille de Perth Théâtre Fr. De la Musique </span></span> </p> </li></ul> <ul><li><p><span style="font-family:Impact, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;font-size:85%;" >Ali Glück Les Pelerins de la Mecque Les Arts Florissants </span></span> </p> </li></ul> <ul><li><p><span style="font-family:Impact, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;font-size:85%;" >Major Duomo Tchaikovsky Pique Dame The Boston Symphony </span></span> </p> </li></ul> <ul><li><p><span style="font-family:Impact, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;font-size:85%;" >Agenore Mozart Il Re Pastore Boston Lyric Opera </span></span> </p> </li></ul> <ul><li><p><span style="font-family:Impact, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;font-size:85%;" >Ory Rossini Le Comte Ory Boston University Opera </span></span> </p> </li></ul> <ul><li><p><span style="font-family:Impact, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;font-size:85%;" >Harlekin Ullman Des Kaiser v. Atlantis Merkin Concert Hall, NYC </span></span> </p> </li></ul> <ul><li><p><span style="font-family:Impact, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;font-size:85%;" >Cégeste Glass Orphée (world premiere) Brooklyn Acad. Of Music </span></span> </p> </li></ul> <p><span style="font-family:Impact, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;font-size:85%;" ><br /><b>Roles Covered</b>:<br />Don Ottavio Mozart Don Giovanni Festival d’Aix-en-Provence<br />Tito Mozart La Clemenza di Tito Opera Theatre of St. Louis<br />Apollo Monteverdi Orfeo Opera Theatre of St. Louis<br />(covering Anthony Rolfe-Johnson)<br />Satyavan Holst Savitri Les Jardins Musicaux (CH)<br /><br /><b>Concert works</b>:</span></span></p> <ul><li><p><span style="font-family:Impact, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;font-size:85%;" >J.S. Bach Mass in B minor, Christmas Oratorio, Cantatas (50+) including BWV nos. 25, 80, 86, 102, 108, 128, 135, 140, 150, 163, 175, Johannes-Passion, Matthäus-Passion</span></span></p> </li></ul> <ul><li><p><span style="font-family:Impact, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;font-size:85%;" >CPE Bach Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Oratorio</span></span></p> </li></ul> <ul><li><p><span style="font-family:Impact, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;font-size:85%;" >Britten Serenade, Cantata Academica, Canticles 1,2, 3, 5</span></span></p> </li></ul> <ul><li><p><span style="font-family:Impact, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;font-size:85%;" >Martin Le Vin Herbé, Pilate, Requiem</span></span></p> </li></ul> <ul><li><p><span style="font-family:Impact, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;font-size:85%;" >Mendelssohn Elijah</span></span></p> </li></ul> <ul><li><p><span style="font-family:Impact, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;font-size:85%;" >Orff Carmina Burana</span></span></p> </li></ul> <ul><li><p><span style="font-family:Impact, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;font-size:85%;" >Satie Socrates</span></span></p> </li></ul> <p><span style="font-family:Impact, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;font-size:85%;" ><br /><b>Training/Education</b><br /><br />Ensemble Program Opera Theatre of St. Louis 1995, 1996<br />Diploma Boston University Opera Institute 1996<br />Fellow Tanglewood Music Center 1990<br />MM Voice Boston University 1989<br />BA Music Blackburn College 1986<br /><br /><br /><b>Conductors </b>Seiji Ozawa, Christopher Hogwood, William Christie, Claudio Abbado, Daniel Harding, Emmanuel Villaume, Yves Abel, John Harbison, Martin Pearlman, Dennis Russel Davies, Jerome Pillement, Dominique Trottein, Michel Piquemal, Stephen Stubbs, Paul Van Nevel, Valentin Reymond, Christophe Coin, Terje Kvam, Carl Høgset<br /><br /><b>Stage Directors</b> Peter Brook, Francesca Zambello, John Copley, Colin Graham, John Haber, Will Graham, David Knuess, Neil-Peter Jampolis, Georg Rootering, Laurence Dale, Olivier Desbordes, François Rochaix<br /><br /><b>Languages </b>English (mother tongue), French, Norwegian (fluent), German (moderate) </span></span> </p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29706579-115029796890434877?l=paulkirbycv.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>paalnoreply@blogger.com0