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David Ronis |
Biography David Ronis maintains an active schedule in a multi-faceted career. Currently on the faculty of the Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College, City University of New York, he is a sought-after director and clinician, specializing in teaching integrative acting and movement techniques for singers. He has recently given master classes and workshops at Manhattan School of Music, Cincinnati College-Conservatory, the Seagle Colony, New Jersey Opera Theater's Young Artist Program, Vassar College, Texas Christian University, University of Dayton, and the Southern Louisiana Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. He also maintains a private studio in New York City. Mr. Ronis has sung over 50 character tenor operatic roles with more than 30 companies in Europe and Asia, and throughout the US. Highlights of his opera career include performances of the Witch in Hansel and Gretel, the Four Servants in Les Contes D'Hoffmann, Prince Orlovsky in Die Fledermaus, Basilio and Curzio in Le Nozze di Figaro, and Goro in Madama Butterfly, with opera companies in Nice, Hong Kong, Atlanta, Tulsa, Milwaukee, Salt Lake City, New Orleans, Houston, Louisville, Columbus, Tampa, Rochester, Grand Rapids, and the New York City Opera National Company, among others (see Résume). He also performed in Leonard Bernstein's A Quiet Place/Trouble in Tahiti at La Scala Milan and the Vienna State Opera, with the composer conducting. In concert, Mr. Ronis has appeared as soloist at New York's Carnegie, Avery Fisher and Alice Tully Halls, with L'Opéra Français de New York, with the Musica Sacra Chorus in a Kurt Weill Festival, and with Hermann Prey in the Schubertiade series at the 92nd Street Y. Other concert credits include performances with the Milwaukee and New Haven Symphonies, the Aspen Music Festival, and at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy and Charleston, South Carolina. He has been the cantorial soloist for the High Holy Days at Temple Emanuel in Grand Rapids, Michigan since 1987. A member of Actors' Equity Association and the Screen Actors Guild, Mr. Ronis has appeared in both musical and spoken theater productions in New York City and Los Angeles, and throughout the US. In 1995, he made his musical theater debut in the Los Angeles production of Disney's Beauty and the Beast. He continued in the show's subsequent national tour of the US, playing the roles of Monsieur D'Arque and Lumiere, the candlestick. On camera, he has appeared in independent and industrial films and been featured in nationally televised commercials and print advertisements. Mr. Ronis is a graduate of Purchase College of the State University of New York and also studied at the Conservatoire Américain in Fontainebleau, France, then under the direction of the late Nadia Boulanger. Additionally he received the Anthony Gishford Award to attend the Britten-Pears School in Aldeburgh, England, where he worked with Sir Peter Pears. |
