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| Baritone Ryan Goessl, a native of Medford, Wisconsin, has a Master's of Music degree in Vocal Arts from the University of Southern California, and has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Vocal Performance and Education from Luther College. Hailed for his "big baritone voice"; (Hendersonville Times) and his "maturity of skills and commitment to the stage," (Classical Voice of North Carolina), he performs frequently in opera, oratorio, and classical works, throughout the greater Los Angeles area, the Midwest, the East Coast, and Korea. He has also been on tours throughout Estonia, Finland, Sweden, and Norway. He has won the Brentwood Symphony's "Artist of Tomorrow"; Competition, the Sigma Alpha Iota Pasadena Music Competition, the Long Beach Mozart Competition's "People's Choice" award, and honorable mention award winner of the California Women's Chorus and NATS-LA competition.; Known for his versatility, Mr. Goessl's credits range from opera and musical theatre, to television and cabaret. He made his Network Television debut on CBS with 20th Century Fox Productions on the hit television sitcom, How I Met Your Mother. Mr. Goessl's favorite roles include the young lover Anthony Hope in Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, Ali Hakim in Oklahoma , Norton in Rossini's La Cambiale di Matrimonio, Pallante in Handel's Agrippina, and Tom in Victor Herbert's Babes in Toyland. He has been an apprentice at the Seagle Music Colony in upstate New York, in the Cedar Rapids Opera Company's Young Artist Program, and a member of the Brevard Music Center's "Janiec Opera Company" Known also for his interpretation of concert works, Mr. Goessl's greatest passion, along with musical theatre, is in singing Oratorio and Concert music. He has been heard as the baritone soloist in Handel's Messiah, Brahms's Liebeslieder Waltzer and Neue Liebeslieder Waltzer, Durufle's Requiem, and Haydn's Missa in Tempore Belli, along with appearing as a featured soloist at the 2005 National American Choral Director's Association (ACDA) convention in Los Angeles. He has sung the American Premiere of Thomas Christian David's Drei Goethe Lieder, and the West Coast Premiere of Alan Smith's Appreciations. Along with performing, Mr. Goessl also has a private voice studio, engages in stage directing, and choral and vocal adjudicating. He has also been the assistant director for the Central Wisconsin Children's Theatre Summer Drama Camps. |
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