Robert Grayson Email & Phone Number

The renowned tenor and pedagogue teaches voice in person and online. Lessons are scheduled at www.robertgraysonstudios.com Grayson continues to concertize as soloist and collaborative pianist and is available for a limited number of master classes and teaching residencies. Making his New York debut as Faust opposite Samuel Ramey's Mefistofele, Grayson sang over 100 performances as leading tenor for the New York City Opera in such operas as La Boheme, Madama Butterfly, and Carmen. With that company he opened new productions of Tosca, Norma, and La Traviata. Grayson has appeared as leading tenor with numerous performing organizations: The Spoleto Festival, Italy, Israel Philharmonic in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem & Haifa, Santa Fe Opera, Canadian Opera, Tulsa Opera, Miami Opera, Wolftrap, Saratoga, Cleveland, ARTPARK, San Diego Opera, Costa Mesa Opera, Los Angeles Opera Theatre, Washington National Opera, Kennedy Center, and the Los Angeles Music Center Opera. Grayson may be heard as "Caesar" on New World Records Antony & Cleopatra by Barber which won a GRAMMY. He has performed with Beverly Sills, Jerome Hines, Tatiana Troyanos, Samuel Ramey, Susan Graham, Elizabeth Futral, Jeffrey Wells, Paul Groves, Lisette Oropesa, Chad Shelton, Marilyn Niska, and has sung under the batons of Charles Mackerras, Richard Bonynge, Eduardo Muller, Julius Rudel, Bruno Rigacci, and Walter Herbert. Robert Grayson has produced a number of outstanding professional singers. Foremost among these artists are Tenor Paul Groves and Soprano Lisette Oropesa, who have electrified the operatic world at the MET, La Scala, Covent Garden, San Francisco, along with Tenor Chad Shelton, of the MET, New York City Opera, Baritone Noel Bouley, Deutsche Opera, Opera San Jose, Baritone Shon Sims of New York City Opera, Seattle Opera, and Tenor Matt Morgan, of New York City Opera, Pittsburgh Opera. Grayson has also produced two Tucker Award winners, and one Beverly Sills Award winner from the MET.In the Fall of 2007 Grayson founded Opera Louisiane, a professional regional company which brought some of the world's great singers to Baton Rouge and has presented fully-staged operas to school children and to the community with more than 30,000 attending over the years. Grayson maintains studios in Baton Rouge and at LSU in collaboration with Paul Groves, with occasional residencies in New York City. His passion for the pipe organ is shared by his wife, Karola. They were introduced as freshmen by their organ professor. They have one amazing daughter and three most amazing grandchildren.

• Kirkpatrick Distinguished Professor Of Voice

  Louisiana State University, School Of Music