Dr. Ron Brendel
The Lee University School of Music will present Dr. Ron Brendel, associate professor of voice, in a faculty recital on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in Squires Recital Hall.
The performance will include selections from “Messiah” by Handel, “Dichterliebe” by Schumann, and music from Verdi, Rossini, and others, as well as several musical theater songs.
Dr. Brendel, a tenor, made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2006 in Mozart’s Coronation Mass. His oratorio repertoire includes Handel, Bach, Mozart, and Haydn, and in opera he has appeared as Goro (“Madama Butterfly”), Tamino (“Die Zauberflöte”), Ferrando (“Cosi fan tutte”), Alfred (“Die Fledermaus”), Ernesto (“Don Pasquale”), Frederic (“The Pirates of Penzance”), Nankie-Poo (“The Mikado”), and Peter Quint (“The Turn of the Screw”), among other roles.
He has appeared with the Vero Beach Choral Society, the Pensacola Choral Society, the Imperial Symphony Orchestra, the Treasure Coast Opera, Peach State Opera, and the South Florida Opera, among others. He has also been a featured soloist with the Florida Lyric Opera and the Chattanooga Bach Choir and at the Bar Harbor Arts Festival and the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center.
As an aficionado of the vocal music of Benjamin Britten, Dr. Brendel has presented papers about various aspects of that repertoire in a variety of scholarly and performance settings, from New Zealand to the United States and England. He will present a paper on the Hölderin-Fragmente at the College Music Society in February.
Dr. Brendel joined the faculty of Lee’s School of Music in 2005. He earned both his doctorate and master’s from Temple University, and he holds a bachelor’s from Evangel University.
The recital is free of charge and open to the public. Squires Recital Hall is located in Lee’s Humanities Center on Parker Street.
For more information about the recital or other music events, call the School of Music at 614-8240.