CHARLES ANDREW WENNER
Bass Baritone
CONTACT
PERSONAL MOBILE: 00447813579171
Uk.OR Care of 00441457766533, fax 00441457766516
and in Munich Germany
c/o CHRISTIAN JEUB 0049 (0)1732864616, Or CATHERINE LAMB 0049-89- 311 39 08
PLEASE USE EMAIL FOR CONTACT
EMAIL: CAndrewWenner@aol.com, andrewwenner@yahoo.fr
MUSICAL TRAINING
Studied the clarinet since age 12 at Stonyhurst College [5 years in first orchestra as First Clarinet]
5 years part-time student at Guildhall School of Music & Drama [clarinet] with Mr Wilfred Keeley while doing a degree in
Modern Langauges [French Honours with Latin Subsidiary] at Kings College, University of London.
Also: Ecole Normale Supérieure [Recherches Libres] & Oxford
University P.G.C.E. [+ 6 years full time EFL and language teaching]
1-year part-time at Conservatoire Internationale de Musique, Paris with M.Beron [studies, Mozart, Weber]
International Sommerakademie Mozarteum [1980] under Rudolf Jetel [esp.Klosé studies]
Started singing late [age 27, and seriously 3 years later.
SINGING TECHNIQUE
1983-84 Edgar Evans [Royal College of Music]
1984-85 Oliver Broome [South London Opera]
1985 onwards Neil Howlett [Guildhall School of Music & Drama]
1986-87 James Gaddarn [Trinity College of Music]
1987 onwards John Wakefield [Head of Opera, Trinity College of Music]
1993 Louis Quilico [New York]
Currently
Norman Bailey (USA) AND John ~Wakefield
(GB)
COACHING
1985 onwards Peter Gellhorn [Guildhall SMD] [weekly]
1985 onwards David Sutton [weekly]
1985 onwards Robin Bowman [Head of Postgraduate & Academic Studies Guildhall SMD] [monthly]
1993
Valéry Ryvkin [New York]; Ken Merril
[Juilliard New York]
EDUCATION & EMPLOYMENT
1986-87
1-year Full-time Postgraduate course at Trinity College of Music
[Diploma in Singing]
[Studied with James Gaddarn and Simon Young] [Major
discretionary Award from ILEA]
1989-90
British Council Scholarship to the Liszt Academy, Budapest [studying
solfège, harmony lieder, opera,
1990-91
Stadttheater Hildesheim, Germany
[chorus and understudy]
1991
Jul-Aug: Kammer Oper in Rheinsburg: Cornet's
Song of Love & Death [S.Mathus] [role Graff Spork]
[October onwards] Landestheater, Mecklenburg, Neustrelitz,
Germany: solo contract.
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