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Biography Stan Irwin has won critical acclaim in Europe and the United States. Highly praised in a diverse repertoire, he has appeared at the Zürich Opera, Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Barbican Centre, and with major orchestras in the U.S. and Great Britain. As a winner of the World Wide Voice Competition in New York he was awarded contracts to perform Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at Lincoln Center and, in his 1988 British debut, the Brahms Requiem with The Philharmonia Orchestra of London. Irwin has also appeared with the Dallas Symphony and in numerous engagements with the Indianapolis Symphony. Other venues have included nationally telecast appearances in opera on PBS, as a national convention solosist in oratorio for the American Choral Directors Association, and in recital at the Hohenems Palace in Austria for its international "Schubertiad". Frequently heard in the Requiems of Verdi, Mozart and Brahms, the oratorios of Mendelssohn and the song cycles of Schubert, he has also performed widely in the works of the 20th Century composers such as Britten, Vaughan Williams, Barber, Menotti, Orff, Kodály, Ravel, Duruflé, Hindemith, Stravinsky, John Eaton and David Ott. Hans Hotter, with whom Irwin studied in Munich, has described him as possessing "a bass-baritone voice of high quality in timbre, which he is in good command of," noting a "fine artistic senstiveness, together with a gift for interpretation...especially evident in his singing of the German classical Lied." Side by side with singing, his conducting career has also flourished in numerous high profile appearances at world-renowned sites such as Carnegie Hall with the New England Symphonic Ensemble and Chorus, The White House and the Vatican. He has also prepared choirs for performances under such eminent conductors as John Nelson and Sir David Willcocks and orchestras including The Philharmonia of London and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.
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