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Learn More About Gary's Experience:

guitar I learned to play guitar in 1975 to back-up and support a group of folk singers. I studied under Dr. Allen Strange at San Jose State Univerity in CA, graduating with honors in 1979. I specialize in acoustic technique. I play and teach acoustic, electric and bass guitar regularly as part of my duties as Music Dirctor at a Portland area church on Sunday mornings. I have held this and similar positions since 2002. I have a few on-line recordings available for listens and download. voice (music) I specialize in working with "non-singers" and hopeless cases using my skills as a physical therapist, physicians' assistant, lifestyle counselor, special-education teacher and professional vocalist. I can coach gifted singers and professionals drawing on a wide range of experience and training in performance and presentation practices. A prominent member of the Portland choral community, I now teach voice lessons online. I am contracted as the tenor section leader for the Portland Symphonic Choir, the music director for The Rose City Timberlines Men’s Chorus, and the music minister/choir director/organist/pianist/soloist for St. Timothy’s Lutheran Church. In 1979, I was granted a BA in Music from San Jose State University with emphasis in vocal performance. My favorite musical theatre roles include “Judas” in “Jesus Christ Superstar” (rock opera), “Archy” in “Archy and Mehitabel” (jazz revue), “MC” in “Cabaret”(book musical) and the counter –tenor “Count Orlofsky” in “Die Fledermaus” (German operetta). Once in Portland Oregon, I became the musical director and a vocal coach for “Unicorn Theatre”, “The Musical Company” and “Cabaret Magnifique”, coaching beginner, amateur and professional singers. Later, I provided music and vocal direction and arranging for The Dickens Carolers, then guest direction and arranging for The Oregon Repertory Singers in 1992, and then vocalist and counter-tenor solos with the internationally recognized “Choral Cross-Ties”. Local churches regularly secure my services as professional vocalist and chorister. Oregon Symphony Orchestra recruited me for tenor and counter-tenor solos in a concert version of Bernstein’s “Mass” in 1994, then again for Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess”, and “Chichester Psalms”. These solos were reprised and expanded for the Cascade Music Festival to include concert excerpts of “West Side Story”. My current repertoire includes tenor and counter-tenor solos from Bach’s “Wachet Auf”, Handel’s “Messiah”, Rachmaninoff’s “Vocalise”, Gluck’s “Orfeo” and P.D.Q. Bach’s (Peter Schickle, ed.) as a Bargain-Counter-Tenor in “Iphigenia in Brooklyn”, and a huge number of oldies and jazz standards. I have a few non-commercial recordings available online. I live and teach music online from the Lents neighborhood in beautiful Portland, Oregon with my wife and two children.