Eric Bronner

 

Eric R. Bronner, Tenor, CMVT (’02) - Master Teacher (’11), M.M., M.S., CSVW-III, Co. Galway, Ireland.

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• ​HEALTHY SINGING: All ages & levels, professional to beginner, classical to belting

• VOCAL RECOVERY: MD, SLP, and LSCW referrals

• SPEECH COACHING & ACCENT MODIFICATION: For actors, professional voice users, teachers, business professionals, and motivational speakers

• GENDER-AFFIRMING VOICE WORK: Feminize/Masculinize/Androgenize speaking voice​

 

Eric has been performing classical, musical theater, jazz, and cabaret for more than 40 years across the US (and once in England). His performances have aired on the BBC, NPR, and PBS. He has made featured soloist appearances on three commercial cast recordings, and on numerous American Classics archive cast recordings for the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization. Some performance press reviews include “terrific”-St. Augustine Record (FL), “impressive”-Stockton Record (CA), “a clear tenor voice that beautifully sailed with ease” - Providence Journal (RI), and “deft comic acting”-Boston Globe (MA).

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With three articles published in the NATS Journal of Singing, he taught on voice, speech, and humanities faculties at three Rhode Island universities; and maintained a select private studio: training singers, working with medically referred vocal recovery clients, coaching ESL diction for business professionals and healthy stage speaking for actors, and helping trans clients develop gender affirming voices. Eric served on the review panel for Plural Publishing shaping content for four textbooks for SLPs to conduct trans voice training.

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In addition, Eric toured for 12 years with the trio “Music for a While”, co-founded and co-directed the acclaimed Jamestown Chamber Music Series for 6 seasons, served as musical director for the Jubilè Franco-Amèricain for 6 seasons, and as musical director for Flickers Arts Collaborative in Newport for 7 years. He is a two-time recipient of the Rhode Island Foundation Arts Education Fellowship. 

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Academic Education & Professional Training

• M.M. – Vocal Performance, Longy School of Music, Cambridge, MA

• M.S. – Journalism-Public Relations/Arts Marketing, Ohio University, Athens

• B.A. – Theatre and Communications, Purdue University

• CMVT-MT – Certified McClosky Voice Technician-Master Teacher

• CSVW-III – Certified Somatic Voicework™-The LoVetri Method-Level III

• Alumnus: NATS – Professional Teaching Internship

• Alumnus: Contemporary Commercial Music Vocal Pedagogy Institute at Shenandoah University

• Alumnus: Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies, Suffolk, England

 

National Publications

• Contributing Writer/Editor, Your Voice at its Best: Enhancement of the healthy voice, help for the troubled voice, 5th ed. David Blair McClosky with members of the McClosky Institute of Voice, (Waveland Press, Inc.: Long Grove, IL, 2011).

• Author, Journal of Singing, “New Standards for Singers: The Next Generation of Great American Songbook Writers,” National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), March/April, 2007.

• Author, Journal of Singing, “Cabaret for the Classical Singer: A History of the Genre and a Survey of its Vocal Music,” NATS, May/June, 2004.

• Author, Journal of Singing, “A Beginning Voice Teacher’s Guide to Repertoire for the Beginning Voice Student,” NATS, September/October 2003.

• Presenter/Moderator, NATS National Website, “Cabaret for the Classically Trained Singer,” NATS Chat, August 19, 2001 (transcript posted on website: www.NATS.org)

• Author, The Ohio Speech Journal, “The Rhetoric of Theatre: An Analysis of ‘HAIR’ as the Rhetorical Embodiment of the 1960s Counter-Cultural Movement,” Speech Communication Association of Ohio, Vol. 22, 1984.

 

Representative Singing Engagements

• Aldeburgh Music Festival (England)

• Napa Zarzuela Festival (CA)

• Townsend Opera (Modesto, CA)

• First Coast Opera (St. Augustine, FL)

• American Classics (Boston, MA)

• Opera Providence (RI)

• Longfellow Chamber Opera (Boston, MA)

• Longwood Opera (Boston, MA)

• Newport Baroque Orchestra (RI)

• Ocean State Lyric Opera (Providence, RI)

• Ocean State Light Opera (Providence, RI)

• Providence Singers (RI)

 

Representative Opera Roles

• Ferrando – Così fan tutte

• Tamino – Magic Flute

• Alfred – Fledermaus

• Pedrillo – Seraglio

• Basilio – Figaro

• Frederick, Ralph, Nanki-Poo, Fairfax – G&S

• Spoletta – Tosca

• Slender – Merry Wives

 

Representative Oratorio Solos

• Handel – Messiah

• Mendelssohn – Elijah

• Saint-Säens – Christmas Oratorio

• Carissimi – Jonas

• Schütz – Requiem

• Haydn – many Masses

• Mozart – many Masses

 

Representative Music Theater Leads

• Billy – 50-Million Frenchmen (Cole Porter)

• Algy Cuffs – Watch Your Step! (Irving Berlin)

• Freddie Shawn – Peggy Ann (Rodgers & Hart)

• Van Courtland Parke – Stop! Look! Listen! (Irving Berlin)

• Matt – Fantasticks

• Mercury – Olympus on My Mind

• Jerry/Daphne – Sugar

• Linus – Charlie Brown

• Nicely-Nicely – Guys & Dolls

• Marcellus Washburn – Music Man

• Woof – HAIR