James Doing

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About James Doing

James Doing began his career after joining the Netherlands Opera Studio in Amsterdam which launched an international career in opera. Mr. Doing has sung over 75 operatic roles in Paris, Nice, London, Amsterdam, Brussels, Antwerp, Turin, Stuttgart, Doha (Qatar), New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Santa Fe, Cleveland, Cooperstown (Glimmerglass), Milwaukee, Madison, and elsewhere. His operatic roles range from Telemaco in Monteverdi's Il Ritorno d'Ulisse (Netherlands Opera and Brooklyn Academy of Music) to his critically acclaimed portrayal of Roderick Usher in Philip Glass's The Fall of the House of Usher in the Stuttgarter Hofkonzerte, and Gorlaeus in the world premiere and subsequent release on Nonesuch of Louis Andriessen's De Materie. Mr. Doing’s concert career (>80 orchestral parts) was launched after winning the Erna Spoorenberg International Oratorio Vocalists Competition in Holland in 1991. As an internationally renowned interpreter of J. S. Bach, James Doing has sung 175 performances of Matthäus and Johannes Passion and the Weihnachtsoratorium in Europe, Japan, and North America, including numerous performances in Amsterdam’s famed Concertgebouw and stateside with The Bach Choir of Bethlehem, Peoria and Kalamazoo Bach Festivals, Choral Society of Durham and the Universities of Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin. He performed Bach's Magnificat and Easter Oratorio with Chicago's Music of the Baroque and in 2006, his solo tenor performance in the first ever Dutch language Matthew Passion was released by Universal Music/Deutsche Grammophon. He has performed Messiah around the world including Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and in Tokyo and Osaka and is the tenor soloist on the world premiere recording of Beethoven’s Kantate auf die Erhebung Leopolds II zur Kaiserswurde with the Krakow Symphony Orchestra. Member: NATS National Voice Science Advisory Committee