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The American light lyric tenor, Corey Shotwell, obtained his Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance at Western Michigan University (2008-2012); and his Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance from Cleveland Institute of Music (2012-2014), where he also worked and performed with many of the ensembles and faculty members at Case Western Reserve University. In 2013, he participated in the Young Artist Training Program at the Boston Early Music Festival where he covered the role of Fernando in George Frideric Handel's Almira. In 2014, he received a scholarship from Early Music America to attend the American Bach Soloists Academy in San Francisco. He is currently a Young Artist Apprentice with Apollo's Fire - Cleveland Baroque Orchestra.
Corey Shotwell is a self-employed tenor since May 2014. He specializing in the performance of music from the 15th through 18th centuries. His most frequent engagements include solo concert work from the Baroque period, including G.F. Handel's Messiah and the cantatas of J.S. Bach. His St. John Passion (BWV 245) Evangelist has been praised as being sung with “dramatic involvement and seeming ease” and whose “involvement in the text and its declamation was total” (ClevelandClassical). He also sang the role of the Evangelist in the modern-era premiere of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's St. Luke Passion (1775).
His recent operatic engagements include the role of Alcidon in M.A. Charpentier’s Le jugement de Pan with the Haymarket Opera Company in Chicago, Gaston in Korngold’s Die tote Stadt with Cleveland’s Opera Circle, and appearances as Monostatos in W.A. Mozart's The Magic Flute and the Chaplain from Francis Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites with CIM Opera Theater.
His many ensemble credits include solo and chorus work with American Bach Soloists (Director: Jeffrey Thomas), The Newberry Consort, The Thirteen, Bach Collegium-Fort Wayne, Bella Voce, Quire Cleveland (Director: Ross W. Duffin), Summit Choral Society, Lycoming Baroque Choir and Orchestra, and Chicago Bach Ensemble.
A member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, he is an adjunct instructor of voice at both the College of Wooster (since August 2016) and Cleveland State University (since January 016), and on voice faculty in the Preparatory & Continuing Education department at the Cleveland Institute of Music. He currently lives in Cleveland, Ohio. |
