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TEACHER: Dan H. Marek
STUDIO:
Marek Voice Studio |
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Phone: (212) 222-1546 Email: marekdanann@aol.com Last Update: 2009-05-28 |
210 W. 101st St, #10F NYC NY 10025 USA
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| Studio Information |
| Size: 14 ft x 22 ft |
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| Equipment: |
| Available: Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday |
| Available to Travel: No |
| Lesson Fee: $95 per 1 hour |
| Language Technique: English,French,Italian,German, |
| Reschedule/Cancellation Policy: 24 Hour Cancellation Policy |
| Initial Consultation Fee: $$95 |
| Accompanist |
| Lesson Fee Includes Accompanist?: |
Yes |
| Accompanist Provided for Extra Cost: |
Yes, $0 per lesson |
| Singer Can Bring Own Accompanist?: |
No |
| Teacher Information |
| Teacher Bio: |
Biography: Dan H. Marek
Dan H. Marek has appeared as a principal tenor with leading opera companies including the Metropolitan Opera, where he sang nineteen roles, including the innaugral performance of the Met at Lincoln Center in Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra. Other companies include the New York City Opera, the Salzburg Opera in Austria and France, the Baltimore Opera, Central City Opera, the Southern California Opera,.and the Kentucky Opera. Mr. Marek is also a versatile orchestral soloist, chosen by Leopold Stokowski for a memorable Beethoven Ninth in Carnegie Hall and for many performances of Messiah in such venues as the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall,and the Mormon Tabernacle to critical acclaim.
As a recitalist, Dan Marek is equally at home in French, Italian, German or English repertoire. He has sung many of the great song cycles including such diverse works as Beethoven's An Die Ferne Geliebte, Schubert's Die Schöne Müllerin, Die Winterreise, and Schwanengesang, Schumann's Dichterliebe, Brahms Four Serious Songs, Vaughan-William's On Wenlock Edge and Four Hymns, and Gruenberg's Animals and Insects. Mr. Marek has also commissioned Three Marian Euologies by Daniel S. Godfrey, performed for the College Music Society Convention.
Current and former voice students of Dan H. Marek perform at major opera houses (Metropolitan, New York City Opera, San Francisco, Chicago, Houston, La Scala, Berlin Komische, Bonn, and Royal Opera, Stockholm, Sweden). Mr. Marek has been on the voice faculty of Mannes College of Music since 1974 and was appointed chairman of the voice department, a newly created post. Marek was formerly adjunct Associate Professor of Voice at City University of New York. He was also on the faculty of The American Institute of Musical Studies, Graz, Austria and formerly head of the voice department at Syracuse University, where he held the rank of Associate Professor. Syracuse students of Professor Marek won several important national competitions including The National Opera Association and The Chicago Lyric Competition.
In 1979, Dan H. Marek founded The Mozart Opera Project.at Mannes whose graduates are singing in major opera houses the world over. In 2004, Dan Marek began a series of annual master classes at the Opera På Skäret Festival in Sweden and students of the classes are singing professionally in Sweden and elsewhere in Europe.
Articles by Dan H. Marek on vocal subjects appear regularly in The Classical Singer magazine and have been published in The Music Journal and The NATS Journal. In January 2007, Mr. Marek published a comprehensive book on vocal history and singing technique, Singing - The First Art which was published by Scarecrow Press.
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| Roles/Operas Personally Performed: |
Over 25 Major Roles. Many Featured Supporting Roles. List available upon request. |
| Artists I Have Worked With: |
Most of the major artists of the 60s and 70s including Licia Albanese, Martina Arroyo, Regine Crespin, Anna Moffo, Birgit Nilsson, Roberta Peters, Leontyne Price, Judith Raskin, Regina Resnick, Beverly Sills, Teresa Stratas, Joan Sutherland, Renata Tebaldi, Ettore Bastianini, Carlo Bergonzi, Walter Cassel, Franco Corelli, Justino Diaz, Jerome Hines, Sandor Koyna, George London, Cornell MacNeill, James McCracken, Robert Merrill, Sherrill Milnes, Jan Peerce, George Shirley, Georgio Tozzi, Richard Tucker, and Jon Vickers.
Conductors of Solo Appearances: Kurt Adler, Karl Bohm, Richard Bonynge, Emerson Buckley, Anton Coppola, Fausto Cleva, Piero Gamba, Leopold Hager, Walter Hendl, Christopher Keene, Louis Lane, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, Georges Pretre, Joseph Rosenstock, Julius Rudel, George Schick, Thomas Schippers, Leopold Stokowski, Silvio Varviso, Roger Wagner, and Richard Woitach.
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| Professional Affiliations: |
Mannes College of Music, Syracuse University, CUNY, AGMA, NATS |
| Teacher's Training (Schools, Teachers, Coaches, Conductors, Masterclasses, Workshops): |
Education:
Manhattan School of Music - Master of Music, Opera Theater and Voice, 1970
Manhattan School of Music - Bachelor of Music, Voice, 1969
Katherine Turney Long School of the Metropolitan Opera, 1965-66
Metropolitan Opera Studio, 1962-63
New York College of Music, Undergraduate Studies, 1960-61
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| Teacher's Statement: |
For those who wish to investigate my teaching methods, my book "Singing: The First Art" (2007) published by Scarecrow Press, is available from the Met Book Store, Amazon, or Barnes & Noble.
A clip of my artist - pupil Patrick Denniston in Manon Lescaut at Glynbourne is available on You Tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6lKO1NUNEU |
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| Singers Can Refuse Auditors? |
Yes |
| Teacher Can Refuse Auditors? |
Yes |
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