Reader Submission: Reintroducing Pablo Siqueiros

Pablo Siqueiros

Our latest "Reader Submission" is Pablo Siqueiros, who is one of this year's four Florentine Opera Studio Artists in Milwaukee. He isn't technically new to this site, as we featured him along with two other singers in 2011 when we asked readers who we've missed featuring. Now that he's well into his career development, we figured he deserved his own post.

He'll be joined by the other three artists, soprano Julie Tabash, tenor Aaron Short and mezzo-soprano Erin Gonzalez, for a holiday concert at the Wayne and Kristine Lueders Florentine Opera Center. They'll be performing on December 20  and 21at 7:30 PM. For more information, visit their website or call 414-291-5700, ext. 224.

Prior to his residence with Florentine Opera, Siqueiros participated as a Young Artist with Opera Theater of Pittsburgh, where he performed the roles of Mr. Lindquist in A Little Night Music, Jean-Paul in French Suite, and covered the role of Schlemil in The Tales of Hoffman. 


As a Studio Artist at Florentine Opera, he will perform the roles of Barone Douphol in La Traviata, Curio in Giulio Cesare in Egitto, and Customs Sergeant in La Bohème.

In the summer of 2012, Siqueiros debuted the title role in Mozart's Don Giovanni with Bay View Music Festival. In 2011 he participated in the Los Angeles-based OperaWorks Advanced Artist Program under the direction of Ann Baltz.

Siqueiros has received awards from the Virginia Hawk Vocal Scholarship Competition, NATS San Diego Chapter Auditions, and SDSU Symphony Orchestra Soloist Competition.

He is a recent graduate with his Master of Music degree from the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University, where he performed the roles of Interpreter/2nd Doctor in Daron Hagenʼs Amelia, Silvester in Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters, Sprecher in Die Zauberflöte.

The San Diego native holds a Bachelor of Music Degree from San Diego State University, where his passion for opera initiated. While at SDSU, he performed the roles of Bob in The Old Maid and the Thief and Ko-Ko in The Mikado.

Previously, he was assistant to the director of the choral program at Chula Vista High School, School for the Creative and Performing Arts where the choirs received numerous awards in Southern California as well as their first National Championship. You can check out his audio clips on his website.

Three New Barihunks

Pablo Siqueiros

We recently asked readers to submit names of singers who they think belong on barihunks. We received about thirty submissions and we're going to post a number of them, but not all of them. The submissions ranged from "How did we miss that guy?" to "WTF!!!" Two submissions belonged on an adult site and not an opera site. [BTW, we don't post nudes unless it's part of a production]. A number of submissions have already appeared on this site. Submissions came from five continents, with the United States, Germany, England, the Netherlands, Australia and Canada leading the way. 

This site is dedicated to promoting singers and singing, so we hope that you enjoy learning about the emerging talent and the singers working on smaller stages, as well the established singers in the major opera houses.

Here are three newcomers to the site to start us off.

  

Thomas Meglioranza

40-year-old Thomas Meglioranza was born to an Italian-Polish father and a Thai mother.. He began taking voice lessons at Grinnell College, and earned a MM from the Eastman School of Music. He is an alum of the training programs at the Aspen, Tanglewood, Bowdoin, Pacific Music Festivals and the Ravinia Festival's Steans Institute, and has been a participant at the Marlboro Music Festival.

He was a winner of the 2002 Joy in Singing Competition, the 2002 Concert Artists Guild Competition, the 2003 Franz Schubert/Music of Modernity Competition in Graz, and the 2005 Walter Naumburg Competition. In 2009 he was appointed Visiting Artist in Voice at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

He sings a great deal of contemporary music and is particularly associated with the music of Milton Babbitt, Aaron Jay Kernis, Charles Wuorinen, Derek Bermel, Jorge Martín, and John Adams.
His operatic repertoire includes Mozart's Count Almaviva and Don Giovanni, as well as many roles in modern work. You can check out his blog HERE.

Gary Moss

Baritone Gary Moss works as a voice instructor for the Music Theatre program at Viterbo University in Wisconsin.  Gary has performed throughout the United States and Italy with companies such as Santa Fe Opera, Michigan Opera Theater, Toledo Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Washington East Opera, La Musica Lirica, Ohio Light Opera, and has toured with San Francisco Opera.  

Equally at home in Opera, Oratorio, Operetta and Musical Theater, Gary has performed over 100 roles including Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Ford in Falstaff, Prince Edwin in The Gipsy Princess, Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance (as well as 6 other Gilbert & Sullivan roles), and Jud Fry in Oklahoma!.  Gary can be heard on various recordings on the Albany, Newport, and Naxos labels, in The Gondoliers, Bluebeard, Gimpel the Fool, Mother and Son, and La Verbena de la Paloma. 

Gary has taught numerous courses including Studio Voice, Vocal Pedagogy, Sight Singing/Ear Training, English, French, Italian, and German Diction, and has directed many Opera Workshop productions.  He holds a Bachelors of Music degree from the University of Utah, and a Masters of Music and DMA from The University of Michigan.
 

Pablo Siqueiros

Pablo Siqueiros is a lyric-baritone pursuing a Bachelors Degree in Music Performance at San Diego State University. He made his opera debut at SDSU in a production of "The Mikado" by Gilbert and Sullivan where he played the leading role of "Ko-Ko". This fall, he performed the role of "Bob" in SDSU's production of "The Old Maid and the Thief" by Gian Carlo Menotti. Recently, he was announced winner of the SDSU Symphony Orchestra Soloist Competition and was awarded 2nd Place at the Virginia Hawk Vocal Scholarship Auditions.

Siqueiros is also a chamber vocalist, performing with the San Diego-based chamber choir SACRA/PROFANA where he has been featured as a soloist. He also currently performs with Live It Up! Song and Dance Company in Palm Springs, CA, where he performs fully-choreographed popular music and musical theater numbers.

Formerly, he was assistant to the director of the choral program at Chula Vista High School, School for the Creative and Performing Arts where the choirs received numerous awards in Southern California as well as their first National Championship. You can check out his audio clips on his website.
 

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