| Office: | Moody Music 170 |
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| Phone: | (205) 348-1466 |
| Email: | scary@music.ua.edu |
Stephen Cary is Professor of Voice at The University of Alabama. He received his DMA, MM, and BM degrees from the University of Illinois. He has appeared nationally as tenor soloist in, among others, Requiems of Lloyd Webber, Dvorak, and Mozart, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Bach’s Magnificat and Christmas Oratorio, Haydn’s Nelson Mass, Paukenmesse, and Creation, Vaughan Williams’ Hodie, Handel’s Israel in Egypt and Messiah, Liszt’s Psalm Thirteen, Respighi’s Laud to the Nativity, and Orff’s Carmina Burana. Among his opera roles are Rodolfo (La Boheme), Tamino (The Magic Flute), Alfredo (La Traviata), and the title role in Britten’s Albert Herring.
Professor Cary has recently recorded on the MSR Classics label a compact disc of Schumann’s Dichterliebe and songs of Beethoven, including An die ferne Geliebte, Adelaide, and Andenken, with pianist Dennis Helmrich. Professor Cary was a three-time Regional Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera Auditions in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Texas.
Among Professor Cary’s teachers have been Frances Crawford, Evelyn Reynolds, Ronald Hedlund, John Wustman, Eric Dalheim, and Gerard Souzay.