Start Your Voices - A Mosaic Vocal Warmup
With Dr. Darryl Edwards, University of Toronto
Join us for a pre-festival warmup! In this hour-long session, you'll meet fellow Choral Mosaic participants, learn about healthy singing and prepare you and your vocal cords to get the most out of the festival's many singing opportunities. Dr. Darryl Edward is one of Canada's best vocal coaches, and his highly engaging pre-festival warmup session will help you understand your own voice and how to sing your best.
Dr. Darryl Edwards
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Darryl Edwards’ dedication to effectively fostering singers to their best performing finds him acknowledged as “the coach behind many of Canada’s best young voices these days.” (Toronto Star). Prof. Edwards is Artistic Director of the Centre for Opera Studies in Italy, and Canada’s Centre for Opera Studies and Appreciation. His students are frequent winners of national and international singing competitions, and take their places on acclaimed international stages. In Canada, his students are regularly selected as members of the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio, as well as Canada’s other leading opera young artist programs.
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Darryl’s earliest music training was in piano, double bass, trombone and singing in orchestras, bands and choirs of his Ontario public school and church community. He continued with music studies at Western University as a singer and choral conductor, and emerged as a secondary school music teacher, church soloist, the founder of a community concert choir, and Chorale at UWO. His intense studies as a choral conductor led him to thrive in the training provided by Deral Johnson (Western), and summer program experiences at Westminster Choir College with Robert Shaw, William Trego, Frauke Haasemann, and Sir David Willcocks. His subsequent pathway allowed him to pursue professional and academic growth as a tenor soloist with international engagements, and graduate degrees M.Mus. (Western), and D.M.A. (Michigan).
Darryl Edwards’ recent and upcoming teaching schedule includes master classes with singers in the Opera Studio Nederland, the Central Conservatory of Music of Beijing, China, Charles University in Prague, and Brazil’s University of Rio de Janeiro (Uni Rio). He holds a Distinguished Alumni Award from Western University’s Don Wright Faculty of Music. His own teachers have included soprano Mary Morrison, O.C., La Scala baritone Franco Iglesias, and Grammy award winning soprano Lorna Haywood.
Dr. Edwards’ voice students are being engaged with major companies and orchestras across Canada, the United States and Europe, these include the Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera Covent Garden, New York City Opera, Philadelphia Opera, San Francisco Opera, Washington National Opera, Bavarian State Opera – Munich, Zurich Opera, Klagenfurt Opera in Austria, Chicago Lyric Opera, Chicago Opera Theatre, Greek National Opera, and the Canadian Opera Company.
As a tenor Darryl Edwards has appeared to critical acclaim in oratorio, recital, and opera in England, Germany, France, Italy, China, Corsica, the United States, and across Canada. His performing engagements have included Britten’s War Requiem with the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, Bach and Handel with the Filharmonie Hradec Králové and The Czech Boys’ Choir, the title role in Mozart’s Idomeneo in Mulhouse, France, Orff ’s Carmina Burana with the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir.
Darryl Edwards’ recent and upcoming teaching schedule includes master classes with singers in the Opera Studio Nederland, the Central Conservatory of Music of Beijing, China, Charles University in Prague, and Brazil’s University of Rio de Janeiro (Uni Rio). He holds a Distinguished Alumni Award from Western University’s Don Wright Faculty of Music. His own teachers have included soprano Mary Morrison, O.C., La Scala baritone Franco Iglesias, and Grammy award winning soprano Lorna Haywood.
Dr. Edwards’ voice students are being engaged with major companies and orchestras across Canada, the United States and Europe, these include the Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera Covent Garden, New York City Opera, Philadelphia Opera, San Francisco Opera, Washington National Opera, Bavarian State Opera – Munich, Zurich Opera, Klagenfurt Opera in Austria, Chicago Lyric Opera, Chicago Opera Theatre, Greek National Opera, and the Canadian Opera Company.
As a tenor Darryl Edwards has appeared to critical acclaim in oratorio, recital, and opera in England, Germany, France, Italy, China, Corsica, the United States, and across Canada. His performing engagements have included Britten’s War Requiem with the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, Bach and Handel with the Filharmonie Hradec Králové and The Czech Boys’ Choir, the title role in Mozart’s Idomeneo in Mulhouse, France, Orff ’s Carmina Burana with the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir.
