Gregory Brookes
Baritone Gregory Brookes is currently the visiting assistant professor of voice at Texas Tech University. After receiving a BMus in clarinet performance from the University of Calgary, he pursued graduate work at the Eastman School of Music where he earned a Master of Music in vocal performance and literature. He has been a faculty member of Queen’s University, St. Lawrence College and Colorado State University having taught applied voice, vocal pedagogy, song literature, opera history, opera workshop and freshman voice studio. He was also Director of Opera at Colorado State University.
Baritone Gregory Brookes has been praised for his “rich baritone sound” and “Shakespearian acting.” He is currently a candidate for the degree Doctor of Music from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music having completed all course work and examinations. After receiving a BMus in clarinet performance from the University of Calgary, he pursued graduate work at the Eastman School of Music where he earned a Master of Music in vocal performance and literature. He has performed with opera companies throughout North America including NUOVA Opera Edmonton, Opera in Concert of Toronto, Eastman Opera Theatre, Brevard Music Festival, Indiana University Opera Theatre, Indiana University Theatre, Ohio Light Opera and Opera Fort Collins. He has earned praise for both his operatic and musical theatre roles some of which include, Leporello in Don Giovanni, Lindorf in Les Contes d’Hoffman, Don Geronio in The Turk in Italy, the title role in Sweeney Todd, Pooh Bah in The Mikado, Simone in Gianni Schicchi, Elviro in Xerxes, Orgon in Tartuffe, the Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance, Cervantes in Man of LaMancha, Alfred Doolittle in My Fair Lady and Billus in South Pacific. In addition to his lyric theatre performances, he is a frequent collaborator with numerous choral societies having sung the baritone solos for the Brahms's German Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s The Creation, the Orff Carmina Burana, the Duruflé Requiem and the Mozart Requiem. Gregory is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and was an Associate Instructor of voice at Indiana University for four years. He has been a faculty member of Queen’s University, St. Lawrence College and Colorado State University having taught applied voice, vocal pedagogy, song literature, opera history, opera workshop and freshman voice studio. He was also Director of Opera at Colorado State University where he directed Le nozze di Figaro, The Gondoliers and Sweeney Todd. In August he joined the music faculty of Texas Tech University where he will teach applied voice and lyric diction.
Office: Music Building, Room 217A
Phone: (806) 742-2270 ext. 257
Email: ggbrookes@yahoo.ca