Joshua Farrier

Tenor

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Pedro

Tiefland by Eugen d'Albert
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Peter Grimes

By Benjamin Britten
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Fliegender Holländer

By Richard Wagner
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Eugene Onegin

By Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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Die Zauberflöte

By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Don Giovanni

By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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VITA

Education

1999–2007
Doctorate of Musical Arts (DMA)
University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
(Prof. Norman Paige and Prof. Joyce Castle)
Jellison Weary Scholarship
1995–1999
Masters in Romance Languages (M.A.)
University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
(Voice Lessons from Prof. Inci Bashar)
1992–1995
Bachelor of Music (BM)
Cleveland Institute of Music, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
(Prof. George Vassos)
Full Scholarship
1991–1992
University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois, USA
(Prof. Frances Crawford)
Full Scholarship
1990–1991
Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
(Voice Lessons from Jules Bastin)
Rotary Scholarship

Professional Teaching Experience

1998–2000
Adjunct Professor of Voice
Missouri Western State College • St. Joseph, Missouri, USA
  • taught private voice
  • app. 10 students per semester
  • music majors and minors
  • preparation for bi-annual juries
2001
Adjunct Professor of Voice
Ottawa University • Ottawa, Kansas, USA
  • taught private voice
  • app. 8 students per semester
  • music minors
  • preparation for bi-annual juries
1999, 2001
Graduate Teaching Assistant
University of Kansas • Lawrence, Kansas, USA
  • taught French Diction for Singers
  • app. 25 students
  • developed a unique method for diction teaching
2000–2001
Graduate Teaching Assistant
University of Kansas • Lawrence, Kansas, USA
  • taught private voice
  • app. 8 students per semester
  • music minors
  • preparation for bi-annual juries

Private Voice Teaching

2013–2017
Darmstadt, Germany
  • private studio
  • taught several professional singers
  • one student started with me while singing comprimario roles in B houses; he now sings major roles in German A-houses.
2009–2012
Nordhausen, Germany
  • private studio
  • taught several professional singers
  • one student won a prize at the Finale of the National German Singing Competition
2007–2009
Schöneberg, Berlin
  • private studio
  • taught mostly amateur choral singers
  • one student was engaged in a professional opera chorus (full time position)
1997–2003
Overland Park, Kansas, USA
  • Employee at Danceworks Conservatory
  • taught mostly high school students
  • several of my students won scholarships to become voice majors (Univ. of Kansas, Univ. of Colorado, and Oberlin)

Masterclasses

Elly Ameling
Ruth Golden
Linda Jones
Warren Jones
Erie Mills
Quentin Quereau
William Stone
John Such
John Wustman
Alfons Eberz
Tobias Tröninger
Andreas Ruppert
Dr. Steven Marinaro
Vera Scammon

Voice Teachers

George Vassos
Inci Bashar
Norman Paige
Joyce Castle
Jayne Casselman
Prof. Fenna Kügel-Seifried
Rainer Goldberg
Irmgard Boas
Neumar de Kanel-Starling

German Festcontracts

2009–2012
Festengagement (Solo) Theater Nordhausen
Prof. Fenna Kügel-Seifried
Rainer Goldberg
Irmgard Boas
Neumar de Kanel-Starling
2003–2007
Festengagement (Chor/Solo) Stadttheater Pforzheim

Lectures

10-7-2011
„Lauter als das Orchester: Die Geschichte eines Sängers“
Lange Nacht der Wissenschaft
Stadt Nordhausen
”Louder than the Orchestra: the Story of a Singer“
Long Night of Science
sponsored by the city of Nordhausen

Oratorio

Requiem (Mozart) / Solist
Stadttheater Pforzheim
Messiah (Händel) / Solist
Kansas City Chamber Orchestra
Passion (Händel) / Evangelist
Bach & Handel Society, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Roles Performed

Tito Merelli / Lend Me a Tenor
Stadttheater Bielefeld
D: Thomas Winter
C: William W. Murta
Antkrist (Langgaard) / Das Tier
Staatstheater Mainz
D: Anselm Dalferth
C: Hermann Bäumer
Peter Grimes / Peter Grimes
Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin
D: Toni Burkhardt
C: Martin Schelhaas
Tiefland (d'Albert) / Pedro
Theater Nordhausen
D: Toni Burkhardt
C: Markus Frank
Peter Grimes / Grimes (Cover)
Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe
D: Chris Gedschold
C: Christopher Alden
Fliegende Holländer / Erik
Thüringer Schlossfestspiele Sondershausen
D: Toni Burkhardt
C: Markus Frank
Peter Grimes / Peter Grimes
Theater Nordhausen
D: Toni Burkhardt
C: Markus Frank
Casanova / Conte Cordini
Theater Nordhausen
D: Wolfgang Dosch
C: Oliver Weder
Raub der Lukrezia / Erzähler
Theater Nordhausen
D: Prof. Elmer Fulda
C: Markus Frank
Gräfin Mariza / Tassilo
Theater Nordhausen
D: Wolfgang Dosch
C: Alexander Stessin
Eugen Onegin / Lenski
Theater Nordhausen
D: Katharina Thoma
C: Markus Frank
Zauberflöte / Tamino
Thüringer Schlossfestspiele Sondershausen
D: Toni Burkhardt
C: Markus Frank
Wildschütz / Baron Kronthal
Theater Nordhausen
D: Kerstin Weiß
C: Alexander Stessin
Mein Freund Bunbury / Jack
Theater Nordhausen
D: Wolfgang Dosch
C: Alexander Stessin
Don Giovanni / Don Ottavio
Theater Rudolstadt
D: Kerstin Weiß
C: Oliver Weder
D: Stage Director, C: Conductor

Church Services

2007–2009
St. George's Anglican (Berlin, Germany)
  • Served on the Music Committee
  • Head of the Concert Series
2013–2017
Christ the King (Frankfurt, Germany)
  • Active member of the Church Vestry
2015–2016
Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe
  • Active member of the Council of Advice to the Rt. Rev. Whalon

Professional Affiliations

2013–present
Member of BDG (German Association of Voice Teachers)
2003–2007
Member VdO (German Choral Union)


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REVIEWS


Peter Grimes

By Benjamin Britten
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"Above all, the powerful-voiced Joshua Farrier as the title hero, who brilliantly masters this difficult role; he embodies ​​the torn and rising madness of the fisherman Grimes, his tumultuous outbursts and emotional breakdowns very vividly portrayed."
Neue Nordhäuser Zeitung
"It was Joshua Farrier’s night. The way he vocally portrayed the inner turmoil of the hardened Grimes, how his tenor raved so sweetly and tenderly about Ellen, only to finally cry with desperation from his soul, was terrific. He manages such an impact as an actor that his audience finds itself short of breath."
Mitteldeutsche Zeitung
"The American Joshua Farrier took up this challenge with great confidence. He knew how to safely shape the difficult role with all its ups and downs, its tricky runs and outbursts of madness, so as to draw a character study of the marginalized that is both dramatic and thought-provoking."
Das Opernglas

Pedro

Tiefland by Eugen d'Albert
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"Farrier gives Pedro the naive, good-hearted, but also irascible traits of a person who is going through a painful process of spiritual self-development. The confidence and radiance of his tenor is overwhelming: flawless articulation, well-supported piani and mezzavoce moments, free and radiant high notes. A real discovery!"
Der Neue Merker
“Pedro (Joshua Farrier) underscores his character through vocal volume, robust sound and a reliable head register."
Thüringer Allgemeine
"But there is still great opera this evening, thanks to the musical and vocal design of the evening. Above all the tenor Joshua Farrier as Pedro. With his expression, he succeeds in what the director fails to do by transforming the awkward clichés of the libretto into real qualities: with a brilliant voice and steely highs, with emotionally undisguised singing and a clear diction. The verve of his mountain anthem, the dramatic rhetoric of the ballad of the fight with the wolf, the gentle courtship in the duets with Marta, the impulsive energy - all of this can be experienced in Farrier's musical design and makes all the difference this evening."
Opernnetz
"Joshua Farrier gave the naive bundle of joy with fervor. His strong, clear tenor voice, which was also wonderful in dramatic action, lent direct humanity to the longings and annoyances of the good Pedro."
Das Orchester
"With the American tenor Joshua Farrier, Pedro, this honest boy, is cast as ideally as "Peter Grimes" was. Farrier is the Peter Grimes of the Lowlands, tender and quiet in his pure love for Marta, vocally powerful and unyielding when confronting injustice. Both as an actor and as a singer, he drilled his way into the collective memory of the audience."
Mitteldeutsche Zeitung

Cordini

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“Striking the line between effective mugging and over-the-top acting, Joshua Farrier uses both voice and physical presence to play the character of Cordini: a "nobleman" who can be haughty and arrogant when he feels superior, but instantly becomes whiny and sleazy when push comes to shove. He is a shallow, sissified, squishy type—lovable and repulsive, amusing and dangerous at the same time. An Offenbach character par excellence."
— Der Neue Merker