Teacher

~Now teaching in the Fairfax, VA - Greater Washington, DC area~

Richard Leech, Associate Professor of Voice and Opera, George Mason University - Dewberry School of Music

American tenor Richard Leech is one of the most celebrated lyric tenors of his generation. In a performance career spanning more than four decades, he has provided iconic interpretations of many of the most demanding and well-known roles of the Italian, French, and German repertoire both on disc and on the stages of the world's leading opera houses and symphonies from The Metropolitan Opera to Carnegie Hall and Vienna’s Staatsoper and Philharmonic, to London’s Royal Opera at Covent Garden and Milan’s Teatro alla Scala.

Mr. Leech is featured on more than twenty recordings in many of the roles for which he is so well known including Rodolfo in La Bohème, The Duke in Rigoletto, and Riccardo in Un ballo in Maschera, and his award-winning EMI recording of Gounod’s Faust with Michel Plasson among many others. His solo release "from the heart", a collection of favorite Italian arias and songs, can be found on the Telarc label and his acclaimed Deutsche Oper Les Huguenots, on Arthaus DVD.

As a passionate teacher and mentor, Mr. Leech has worked extensively with aspiring artists at all levels of their development throughout his career. He is currently Associate Professor of Applied Voice and Opera for George Mason University’s Dewberry School of Music, and Stage Director for the Mason Opera Theater in Fairfax, VA. He has also served on the faculties of Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts; Rutgers Opera Institute; and The University of Michigan's School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

Mr. Leech has limited availability in his private studio for the study of Voice, Vocal & Role Coaching, and Audition Preparation for any level of singer in the Fairfax, VA area. Please visit www.richardleech.com for more information or email rleech@richardleech.com