Professor of Voice James Doing participated in the young artist programs at Lake George (1983) and Santa Fe (1984). From Santa Fe, he was invited to join the Netherlands Opera Studio in Amsterdam to pursue further training, and launch an international career in opera. After 11 years based in Amsterdam where he became a dual citizen of the U. S. and the Netherlands, he moved stateside in 1995 with wife Sue and their five children to add a teaching dimension to his activities. From 1995-98 he served as Assistant Professor of Voice and Director of Opera at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
James Doing is equally at home in productions on the stage, radio or television. He has sung more than 70 operatic roles in Paris, Nice, London, Amsterdam, Brussels, Antwerp, Turin, Stuttgart, Doha (Qatar), New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Santa Fe, Cleveland, Cooperstown (Glimmerglass), Milwaukee, Madison and elsewhere. His roles have ranged from Telemaco in Monteverdi's Il Ritorno d'Ulisse (Netherlands Opera and Brooklyn Academy of Music) to his critically acclaimed portrayal of Roderick Usher in Philip Glass's The Fall of the House of Usher in the Stuttgarter Hofkonzerte, and Gorlaeus (which was written for him) in the world premiere and subsequent release on Nonesuch of Louis Andriessen's De Materie.
Concert work is equally important to Mr. Doing. As a Bach specialist, he has sung over 100 performances of the St. Matthew and St. John passions and the Christmas Oratorio in Europe, Japan and North America, including many performances in Amsterdam's famed Concertgebouw and his debut in 2004 with The Bach Choir of Bethlehem. In March 2005 he performed Bach's Magnificat and Easter Oratorio with Chicago's Music of the Baroque. In December 2005 he recorded a tenor aria in Bach's St. Matthew Passion in the Dutch language with Universal Music/Deutsche Grammophon, (released in March 2006). In 1994 Mr. Doing sang four consecutive performances of Hans Zender's orchestration of Schubert's cycle Winterreise in Theaterhaus Stuttgart to critical acclaim. As an interpreter of 20th-century music he has been invited to many prestigious festivals including the Holland, South Bank, Nuova Consonanza (Rome) and Aldeburgh festivals.
James Doing's performances have been critically acclaimed as "admirable" (The New York Times); "refined lyric tenor" (Opera News); "strong and musical voice" (Le Figaro); "vocally first rate" (Opern Welt); "great vocal presence" (Opernglas); "serene, sweeping, smooth voice" (Stuttgarter Zeitung); "absolutely perfect" (Main-Echo), and "deeply movingÂ… never failed our expectationsÂ… more than impressive" (The Jerusalem Post).
Current and former students have have won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in Milwaukee, Minneapolis and Portland and sung with New York City Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Paris Opera Bastille, other regional opera companies and in the apprentice, young artist and resident artist programs of Santa Fe, San Francisco (Merola), Lyric Opera of Chicago, Minnesota, Sarasota, Orlando, Portland, Utah and Central City.
Since 1994, James Doing has collaborated with the noted voice scientist Donald Miller (Voice Research Lab, Groningen, the Netherlands) on the application of visual feedback from real-time spectrum analysis and electroglottography in the instruction of voice. This collaboration has led to co-authorship of two articles.
Mr. Doing may be heard on Universal Music/Deutsche Grammophon, Accord, Nonesuch, Opera Rara/Marco Polo, 3M Nederland, and Evangeliums Rundfunk labels. |
