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Biography  –  Recordings  –  Recent Solo Performances  –  Works Premiered  –  Repertoire List

BIOGRAPHY

Gary D. Cannon is increasingly in demand as concert soloist and professional choral singer throughout the Pacific Northwest.  Since 2003 he has been a regular member of The Tudor Choir, a professional chamber chorus in Seattle with emphases in the Renaissance, music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and early American church music of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.  He has performed on three CD releases, including music of Clemens non Papa which was reviewed glowingly in Gramophone magazine, and a new CD of American and English music due for release in 2007/8.  Additional highlights have included solo appearances in Vaughan Williams's Fantasia on Christmas Carols, Ingram Marshall's Savage Altars, and music of Praetorius.

Recent solo performances with major orchestras and choirs include P.D.Q. Bach's solo cantata Iphigenia in Brooklyn with the Seattle Philharmonic, Percy Grainger's Shallow Brown and Vaughan Williams's Serenade to Music with the Auburn Symphony, Mozart's Requiem with the Rainier Symphony, Vaughan Williams's Fantasia on Christmas Carols with The Tudor Choir, and Respighi's Laud to the Nativity with Master Chorus Eastside.  Other orchestral appearances include Gounod's St. Cecilia Mass with the Eastside Symphony, and music of Bach and Mozart with the University of Washington Symphony Orchestra.  Cannon is a frequent member of the vocal faculty at the annual Midsummer Musical Retreat in Walla Walla, Washington, where he has appeared as soloist in Mendelssohn's Die erste Walpurgisnacht, and music of Brahms, Corigliano, Walton, and Roupen Shakarian.

As a recitalist, Cannon participated in a benefit faculty recital at Whatcom Community College with soprano Charissa Chiaravalloti in May 2005.  He was featured as a soloist at the inaugural Annas Bay Music Festival in summer 2006, singing works of Barber, Copland, and Corigliano.  Cannon also appeared in Britten's canticle The Journey of the Magi with countertenor Doug Fullington and baritone Matthew Melendez Blegen in December 2004.  His art song repertoire ranges from the Romantic Lieder of Schubert and Brahms, to French mélodies by Fauré, to twentieth-century American and British songs, especially the works of Barber, Britten, and Walton.

While opera is not his primary expertise, Cannon is certainly no stranger to the stage.  He joined the stage chorus of Seattle Opera for its 2007 production of Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer.  In 1999 he premiered the role of Dennis Kearney in Jerome Rosen's Emperor Norton of the U.S.A. at the University of California, Davis.  He was the only student with a principal role in that production.  He has also sung in the chorus of the University of Washington Opera for Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites.  In addition, he has performed semi-staged scenes and solo arias from Walton's The Bear, Britten's Peter Grimes, Mozart's Magic Flute, and Puccini's Madama Butterfly.

In addition to his work with The Tudor Choir and the Seattle Opera Chorus, he has appeared in professional choirs such as the Cantorei at St. James Cathedral.  He will also join The Renaissance Singers for their fall 2007 concerts.  Under the direction of Joseph Crnko, Cannon has sung for the soundtracks of various films (Stargate: The Ark of Truth; Exorcist: The Beginning), television shows (Shrek the Halls, forthcoming December 2007), film trailers (over two dozen, including Pirates of the Caribbean III: At the World's End; The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; Ghost Rider; Bridge to Taribithia) and video games (including Halo III, Age of Empires III).

Cannon also appears frequently as a soloist, section leader, or choral "ringer" for church, community, and recital choruses throughout the Seattle area, and has also supplemented non-professional ensembles such as Opus 7, Seattle Symphony Chorale, Bellevue Chamber Chorus, Cantaré, Cascadian Chorale, Northwest Chorale, Northwest Mahler Festival Chorus, and VocalPoint! Seattle.  He has sung for weddings and funerals throughout the Seattle area, as well as in Napa, California.  As a student, he sang in select ensembles, often with incidental solos, at UC Davis (conducted by Paul Hillier and Jeffrey Thomas), and the University of Washington (conducted by Geoffrey Boers and Abraham Kaplan), including the UW Chamber Singers' acclaimed Baltic tour in 2000.  While an undergraduate, he also supplemented the Sacramento Ballet Chorus and the Mother Lode Festival Chorus.

Cannon has studied vocal performance from Julian Patrick at the University of Washington, and at the University of California, Davis, from Stephanie Friedman, Lenore Turner-Heinson, and Neal Rogers.  He has also coached undergraduate and community singers.

RECORDINGS

This section is under construction.  See Recordings for selected information.

RECENT SOLO PERFORMANCES

WORKS PREMIERED or Commissioned by Cannon

SELECTIVE REPERTOIRE LIST

(excludes incidental solos in primarily choral repertoire)

* includes complete opera roles and extended scenes
** includes opera arias and ensembles

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