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Voice |
| Faculty Since: |
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1986 |
| Credentials: |
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BM, Baylor University; MM, Performer's Certificate, Indiana University |
| Biography: |
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William McGraw, Professor of Voice, is both a teacher and a performer. McGraw studied voice with the renowned Wagnerian soprano Margaret Harshaw and began his professional singing career under the care of the inestimable Boris Goldovsky. McGraw’s operatic roles include Figaro (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Marcello (La Boheme), Enrico (Lucia di Lammermoor), Germont (La Traviata), Konrad Nachtigall (Die Meistersinger) and John Proctor (The Crucible). He has performed with such opera companies as Boston Opera (with the late Sarah Caldwell), Goldovsky Opera on Tour, Greater Miami Opera (now Florida Grand Opera), Cincinnati Opera, Indianapolis Opera, Maracaibo, Venezuela Opera, Shreveport Opera, and Kentucky Opera.
Professor McGraw’s concert performances include Elijah (Elijah), Jesus (St. Matthew Passion, both concert and staged; J. S. Bach), soloist (Carmina Burana), soloist (Symphony No. 8; Mahler), soloist (Ein Deutches Requiem; Brahms) and soloist (5 Mystical Songs; Ralph Vaughan Williams). Professor McGraw was a soloist at Carnegie Hall with maestro Margaret Hillis, was a featured recitalist on the J. Paul Getty Museum Concert series in Malibu, California with Robert Blocker, Steinway Artist pianist and dean of the Yale School of Music and has shared the solo stage with internationally acclaimed Deborah Voigt and Ben Heppner.
Most recently, Professor McGraw performed the role of Le Comte Capulet (Roméo et Juliette; Gounod) with Dayton Opera, Bach Cantata 192 with Cincinnati’s May Festival and maestro James Conlon (Los Angeles Opera), and Marco (Gianni Schicchi; Puccini) with the Cincinnati Opera. In the summers of 2010 and 2011, Professor McGraw taught at the CCM Spoleto Music Festival in Spoleto, Italy. He is proud to have students teaching and performing nationally and internationally, and, notably, Professor McGraw has been named Omicron Delta Kappa Man of Merit by Baylor University in recognition of outstanding accomplishments. |
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