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Tenor David MacAdam has been praised by critics as both being \u201cboth singer and performing
\nartist\u201d. He has performed with opera companies including NY City Opera in their summer
\nhome at Artpark, Greater Buffalo Opera, Syracuse Opera, Opera Lyra Ottawa, Nickel City
\nOpera, Ohio Light Opera, Th\u00e9\u00e2tre lyrique de Gatineau, Buffalo Opera Unlimited, Opera Breva,
\nOpera Sacra, and others in both Canada and the United States, with distinguished conductors
\nincluding Christopher Keene, Gustav Meier, David Efron, Anton Coppola and Mario Bernardi,
\nand with Stage Directors including among others Ken Cazan, Nicholas Muni, Herbert Kellner,
\nand Charles Nelson Reilly. David performs often in opera, recital & concert, and has been
\nheard in live broadcasts including CBC Radio & the WBFO Opus Classics Live series in the
\nU.S., and in numerous performances and premiers of \u201cNew Music\u201d, most recently the world
\npremiere of Persis Vehar’s major opera “SHOT!” in June of 2016. An alumnus University of
\nBuffalo, he holds BFA and MM degrees in Vocal Performance, both with honors. His
\neducation includes training in all areas pertaining to the lyric stage: vocal performance, dance,
\nacting, directing, stage management, and technical areas, and he participated in master classes
\nconducted by such luminaries as G\u00e9rard Souzay, Elly Ameling, Dalton Baldwin, Margaret
\nHarshaw, Heinz Rehfuss, and Maureen Forrester, among others, with extensive focus on lieder
\n& m\u00e9lodie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a Stage Director, David has led many productions and worked with prominent international
\ncasts, including critically acclaimed Nickel City Opera (Buffalo) productions of The Barber of
\nSeville (2009, NCO\u2019s d\u00e9but opera) and Rigoletto (2010).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Associate Performance Instructor in Voice at Carleton University, David also maintains an
\nextensive private vocal studio, and truly enjoys and is committed to working with aspiring
\nyoung artists. Students of David\u2019s have won numerous awards, many a significant number have
\nadvanced into successful performing careers in Classical Music, Musical Theatre, and Popular
\nMusic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David is a member of both the Canadian Actors Equity Association and the American Guild Of
\nMusical Artists, and he is represented by Gregory Sheppard Artist Management in New York.
\nOn the other side of the stage, David was co-founder of the Greater Buffalo Opera Company,
\nOperations Manager at Syracuse Opera, instrumental in the establishment of Nickel City Opera,
\nand has extensive experience in the management end of the performing arts with a number of
\ncompanies, including Hawaii Opera Theatre, Opera Lyra Ottawa and El Paso Opera among
\nothers. He is currently Associate Artistic Director of Nickel City Opera in Buffalo, NY, and
\nGeneral & Artistic Director of Ottawa Pocket Opera in Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10586,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"David","cu_people_last_name":"MacAdam","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[39,18],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-6555","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-ensemble-director","cu_people_type-performance-instructor"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Director: Lyric Theatre Ensemble; Performance Instructor: Classical, Musical Theatre Voice","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"david-macadam@david-macadam.com","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"www.david-macadam.com","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/6555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/6555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11170,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/6555\/revisions\/11170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=6555"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=6555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}