Bio of GEORGE GIBSON, baritone
Having moved to Tucson with his wife Mary Jane in 1998 from Cincinnati, OH, this native Texan has continued his teaching and singing career, while enjoying "retirement" in southeast Arizona. At present, and for the past eleven years, Dr. Gibson has successfully established a large and active voice studio in Washington, D.C. to which he travels for nine days each month. Previous to that he was Professor of Voice and Director of Opera Theatre at Wichita State University in Kansas for 29 years. He has continued to connect with academia with guest professorships at the College-Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati, The Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester, NY, and the University of Arizona. His education consists of degrees from the University of Miami, the University of Texas at Austin, and the doctorate from the University of Southern California. A Fulbright Scholarship took him to Munich, Germany for studies in voice and opera and song literature. While in school, he held graduate teaching assistantships at the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Southern California. His performing career includes appearances from coast to coast on the opera stage, in recital, with major symphony orchestras, and in musical theatre. His repertoire includes some sixty leading opera, oratorio, and musical theatre roles. A representative list follows. His first love at present is teaching. His students are singing in all the major opera houses of the world including the Metropolitan Opera, the opera companies of Chicago, San Francisco, Houston, Los Angeles, Seattle, Paris, London, Rome, Milan, Vienna, to name a few. Representative list of repertoire: Oratorio Bach: St. Matthew and St. John Passions; Mass in B
Minor; many cantatas Opera Major roles in operas by Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi, R. Strauss, Hindemith, Debussy, Britten, Wagner, Dallapiccola, J. Strauss, Gilbert & Sullivan, etc.
Musical Theatre Leading roles: Man of La Mancha, South Pacific, the Student Prince, 1776, Fiddler on the Roof, etc.
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