BIO
A seasoned professional operatic performer for over 25 years, Erik Kroncke is equally passionate about teaching the next generation of singers. Beginners to successful professional singers have benefitted from his vocal expertise in rock, jazz, pop, musical theater and opera. His main objective in lessons is “to free a voice, so that the singer has all of the tools available to express and perform in any style”. His students have gone on to graduate work at many prestigious universities and have won various important competitions.
As a performer in opera companies around the world, Mr. Kroncke has been described as “engaging...a bass of astounding depth and warm timbre...an important voice and artist.” He was an award winner of the Gerda Lissner Wagner competition in 2010, the American Wagner and St. Bonaventura award winner from the Liederkranz competition in 2008, and a winner of the 2002 and 2003 Friedrich Schorr Vocal Competition. Erik recently sang the bass soloist in the Beethoven 9th with the National Chorale at Lincoln center, sang the role of Tackleton in the North American premier of Zandonai’s Il Grillo del Focolare with Teatro Grattacielo, and opened the 27th season of the Capriccio concert series in recital with pianist Mary Jane Austin. Last year he sang the role of Rocco in Fidelio with St. Petersburg Opera (SPO) and Opera Company Middlebury, Commendatore in Don Giovanni with Gulf Shores Opera, Salieri in Mozart and Salieri with Vermont Theater Festival, Hunding in Die Walküre with Green Mountain Mahler Festival, Schlendrian in Bach’s Coffee Cantata, bass soloist in Beethoven 9th, various Messiah concerts, and recitals across New England. This year he sang Timur in Turandot with SPO and An Old Hebrew in Samson et Dalila with St. Petersburg Opera and Enrico in Anna Bolena with St. Louis Winter Opera. He has performed in opera concerts in Oderzo and Feltre, Italy as part of the Ezio Pinza Council for American Singers of Opera (EPCASO). A more complete biography can be found on his website.
Bio
A seasoned professional operatic performer for over 25 years, Erik Kroncke is equally passionate about teaching the next generation of singers. Beginners to successful professional singers have benefitted from his vocal expertise in rock, jazz, pop, musical theater and opera. His main objective in lessons is “to free a voice, so that the singer has all of the tools available to express and perform in any style”. His students have gone on to graduate work at many prestigious universities and have won various important competitions.
As a performer in opera companies around the world, Mr. Kroncke has been described as “engaging...a bass of astounding depth and warm timbre...an important voice and artist.” He was an award winner of the Gerda Lissner Wagner competition in 2010, the American Wagner and St. Bonaventura award winner from the Liederkranz competition in 2008, and a winner of the 2002 and 2003 Friedrich Schorr Vocal Competition. Erik recently sang the bass soloist in the Beethoven 9th with the National Chorale at Lincoln center, sang the role of Tackleton in the North American premier of Zandonai’s Il Grillo del Focolare with Teatro Grattacielo, and opened the 27th season of the Capriccio concert series in recital with pianist Mary Jane Austin. Last year he sang the role of Rocco in Fidelio with St. Petersburg Opera (SPO) and Opera Company Middlebury, Commendatore in Don Giovanni with Gulf Shores Opera, Salieri in Mozart and Salieri with Vermont Theater Festival, Hunding in Die Walküre with Green Mountain Mahler Festival, Schlendrian in Bach’s Coffee Cantata, bass soloist in Beethoven 9th, various Messiah concerts, and recitals across New England. This year he sang Timur in Turandot with SPO and An Old Hebrew in Samson et Dalila with St. Petersburg Opera and Enrico in Anna Bolena with St. Louis Winter Opera. He has performed in opera concerts in Oderzo and Feltre, Italy as part of the Ezio Pinza Council for American Singers of Opera (EPCASO). A more complete biography can be found on his website.