Some Guy That writes Music Posted March 5, 2025 Posted March 5, 2025 (edited) This post was recognized by PeterthePapercomPoser! "You probably deserve multiple badges - "Troubadour" or "Choir Master" come to mind. But for this post and your willingness to offer advice I award you "Musical Advisor". And congratulations on being an accomplished and award-winning singer!" Some Guy That writes Music was awarded the badge 'Musical Advisor' and 5 points. Hello Everyone, My name is Izaak Thoms, and I'm a singer. I've been a "professional" (as is in occasionally make money singing) for years at this point, and I am also right now an undergraduate singer in a collegiate program. I've sung with Grammy-nominated ensembles, and other accredited performers. I've performed 7 fully staged operas (and 2 working right now 2/26), both modern and traditional, most of which I was major role. I have worked with people from the MET opera, world class singers and conductors. I obviously wouldn't call myself an expert or master at my artform, but I would like to say I have a strong understanding of men's voices especially, but also all voices in general. I've been thinking about this for a while, and would like to just offer my years of work and experience to you wonderful composers. Hopefully those of you who are interested in using me as a resource, can ask me questions about the voice in solo and choral work. And hopefully give you all opportunities to be more successful. Here are three piece that I have performed recently, hopefully this gives you a chance to hear my voice: https://youtu.be/CsCuZRIvmWg https://youtu.be/bK-JrJFqgeA https://youtu.be/XBcOsTt4hyE Things off the top of my head that I know I'll be good at answering: formatting questions, range and tessitura questions, performance questions (concert and staged works), behind the scenes of preparation and performance. And if this thread gets popular enough, I'll likely edit this original post to function as a sort of as a tips and tricks so you might not need to scroll the whole way through. Edited 1 hour ago by Some Guy That writes Music 1 Quote
Some Guy That writes Music Posted 1 hour ago Author Posted 1 hour ago I also want to add here, that if anyone wants to send any music my way, they totally can. If it is capable of being sung by a baritone, I am offering my time to sing your melodies for you (without accompaniment) so you can hear it in a real voice. These would NOT be for commercial OR public use, but independent study unless otherwise communicated. If you have something for a soprano or tenor which would not fit my voice, you can transpose it yourself down to a baritone range and I can sing it for you. I don't expect anything in return, but I do hope y'all use this opportunity. I too often see composers writing difficult music for the voice, when in my opinion, the art is at it's best when easy for the singer. I am not currently accepting music for recitals, but I am always hunting. 1 Quote
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