Richard Cox on Teaching Voice

Join us for our first in-person meeting of the new year. Tenor and educator, Richard Cox, will speak about aspects of teaching voice, both in general and as it relates specifically to the music of Wagner. This promises to be a fascinating dive into the work involved in creating the great performers and performances that we love. Please note that this meeting is in-person only and will not be recorded.

As an educator he is currently Executive Chair and Professor of Voice at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music having also worked on the faculties of the San Francisco Opera Center Adler Program, the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Program, the Bard College Graduate Vocal Arts Program and others.

As a tenor, he has appeared in many prestigious opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Los Angeles Opera, Washington National Opera, Teatro Municipal de Santiago, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, Glimmerglass Festival, The Wexford Festival Opera, Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden, and Oper Frankfurt. His operatic repertoire includes the title roles of Peter Grimes, Samson et Dalila, Lohengrin, and Oedipus Rex; Loge in Das Rheingold, Siegmund in Die Walküre, Laca in Jenůfa, Don José in Carmen, Captain Ahab in Moby-Dick, and Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos.

Also an accomplished concert singer and recitalist, Mr. Cox has appeared as the tenor soloist in Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Jacksonville Symphony); Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 (Bilbao Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra); with the Collegiate Chorale and Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Carnegie Hall; American Symphony Orchestra; and made his New York recital debut on the Marilyn Horne Foundation’s On Wings of Song recital series.

Photo: ©Arielle Doneson