Nicholas Isherwood
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Nicholas Isherwood is a Franco-American
Stockhausen’s Montag, Dienstag, and Freitag from Licht at La Scala and the Leipzig Opera, and in Donnerstag aus Licht at Covent Garden
.
Life and career
Isherwood has worked with
Vienna Konzerthaus, Tanglewood
).
His
Paul Mefano
's Micromégas. Recent performances include the role of the doctor in Francesco Filidei's " L'Inondation" at the Opéra de Rennes and the Opéra de Nantes (fall, 2019).
In addition to singing, Isherwood has had an extremely active pedagogical career. He has been engaged as professor (or assistant professor) of vocal music and/or music theater (opera) at institutions in France, Germany, and the United States, including the
Ecole Normale de Musique (Paris), California Institute of the Arts, and the University of Oregon
(2008–2011). From 2015 to 2018, he was a professor of voice at the CNSMD de Lyon, and he has been professor of voice at the Conservatoire de Montbéliard since 2019.
He has presented masterclasses, workshops, and lectures at the Salzburg
Paris Conservatoire (CNSMP), California State University, Los Angeles; Stanford University; University of California, Santa Barbara; University of Washington; San Francisco State University; California Institute of the Arts; ARIAM (Paris); Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi (Milan); Institute of the Living Voice (Berlin); Troyes Conservatoire; Mexico City University; Normal University of Taiwan; at CCMIX
(Paris); IRCAM (Paris); USC; Cal State LA; Cal State Riverside; Cal State Fullerton; Harvard University.
Among his publications, The Techniques of Singing describes the techniques needed to perform contemporary vocal music.[1]
Discography
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With Steve Lacy
- Clangs(hat ART, 1993)
- Voxnova (Valérie Chouanière, soprano; Isabelle Soccoja, mezzo-soprano; Thierry Fouré, tenor; Nicholas Isherwood, bass-baritone). In the Sky I Am Walking: Songs of the Native Americans. CD sound disc. Mode 68. New York: Mode Records, 1998. Nine pieces of Native-American music, plus Karlheinz Stockhausen's Indianerlieder, and Pascal Dusapin's Red Rock and "Après" from the opera Roméo et Juliette.
- Karlheinz Stockhausen: Capricorn, for bass voice and electronic music. Nicholas Isherwood, bass. Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 59 (with Rechter Augenbrauentanz for clarinets, bass clarinets, percussionist, synthesizer player).
- Karlheinz Stockhausen: Havona, für Bass und elektronische Musik: 14. Stunde aus Klang (and electronic music alone, for rehearsals). Nicholas Isherwood, bass. Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 92. Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag, 2009.
References
- ISBN 9783761818619
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