Gregory Zavracky

Style: Opera; Jazz; Classical; Musical Theatre

Title: Instructor of voice, University of Connecticut

Bio:

Biography

Dr. Gregory Zavracky is a teaching associate at Brown University and an instructor of voice at the University of Connecticut. For the past eleven summers, he has been on voice faculty at Boston University Tanglewood Institute. Gregory received his DMA in Voice Performance from Boston University in 2014, in addition to Master of Music degrees in both Voice and Opera studies from New England Conservatory and a Bachelor of Arts from Emory University. He has been inducted into both the Phi Beta Kappa and Pi Kappa Lambda honors societies.

A lyric tenor, Dr. Zavracky maintains an active performance schedule on concert, recital and opera stages. Recent highlights include La Belle Hélène with Odyssey Opera, the premiere of Matthew Aucoin’s Crossing with the American Repertory Theater at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, recitals with the Five Borough Music Festival (NY) and Highland Center for the Arts (VT), Messiah with the Rhode Island Philharmonic, and Count Almaviva in Barber of Seville with Townsend Opera (CA). He is a frequent soloist with a variety of symphonies and choral groups in the Boston area and has also sung with Boston Lyric Opera, Utah Symphony and Opera, Chautauqua Symphony and Opera, Opera Saratoga, Opera North, Opera in the Heights, and Cape Cod Opera. Previous articles examining Libby Larsen’s My Ántonia and Tom Cipullo’s Late Summer have appeared in the Journal of Singing. Gregory is the American art song editor for the online database, SongHelix. As a composer, Gregory has received commissions and awards for his music and has been a finalist for the NATS Art Song Composition Award for his song cycles Sea Garden and Slabs of the Sunburnt West.

Further information about his career may be accessed at www.gregoryzavracky.com.

Voice Type: Tenor

Music Styles Taught: Opera; Jazz; Classical; Musical Theatre

Availability: I am available as a performer; I am currently accepting private students; I accept students through a college or university program

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