Tim Krol is a lyric baritone and Grammy-winning recording artist. His repertoire spans from early music to modern classical and opera, as well as musical theatre and jazz. For nine years, Tim performed and toured worldwide with Chanticleer, America's premier a cappella vocal ensemble. He can be heard on thirteen Chanticleer recordings, including the Grammy Award-winning Colors of Love.
A versatile artist, Tim has sung in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Polish, Swedish and Russian. He sang solo Hebrew incantations in two different productions of Leonard Bernstein's Dybbuk with the San Francisco Ballet. He trained for two months with a Greek Psaltist and a Swami in order to prepare for his solo debut with Minnesota Orchestra, singing Greek and Sanskrit chants in the world premiere of Ikon of Eros by Sir John Tavener. He played both a grandfather and a grandson in Stephen Paulus's To Be Certain of the Dawn, another world premiere with Minnesota Orchestra; and the lead role on the critically acclaimed recording of David Conte's chamber opera, The Gift of the Magi.
As a Bach specialist,Tim has performed solo in numerous cantatas and Passions. He sang in a series of master classes at the Carmel Bach Festival, and proceeded to become a regular in Carmel, singing various solo roles, including Pontius Pilate in Bach's St. Matthew and St. John Passion; and Audi coelum in Monteverdi's Vespers 1610.
Upcoming highlights include: various small roles in a concert production of Ricky Ian Gordon's opera based on Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath," narrated by Jane Fonda, Carnegie Hall, March 22, 2010. Guest soloist for the song/poetry cycle Leo Marchildon's "To Each Is Given," April 16th, Los Angeles, conducted by Isolde Amadeah. Various solo roles at the Carmel Bach Festival, Carmel, California, July 17-31, 2010. www.BachFestival.org
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