With a dynamic career spanning opera, musical theater, choral and symphonic repertoire, Luis González enjoys parallel careers as conductor, music educator and baritone soloist. His diverse performances have taken him across the United States and abroad, collaborating with esteemed institutions such as The New York Philharmonic, Sarasota Orchestra, Crested Butte Music Festival, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Opera Tampa, Opera San José, St. Petersburg Opera and many more.
Luis previously served as Associate Conductor and Language Coach for five seasons with Choral Artists of Sarasota. During his tenure with the 40-voice professional chamber chorus, he conducted performances of Brahms’ Liebesliederwalzer, excerpts from Sondheim’s Into the Woods, and was responsible for all musical-linguistic preparation for a wide array of choral masterworks. Credits include Bach’s Mass in B minor, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony (with Sarasota Orchestra and Key Chorale), Brahms’ Zigeunerlieder and Ein deutsches Requiem, Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Romancero gitano, Chesnokov’s Spaseniye sodelal, Christianson and Anderson’s Too Hot to Handel, the Duruflé Requiem, James Grant’s Listen to the Earth and Eja! Eja!, Handel’s The King Shall Rejoice, Haydn’s Creation, Mendelssohn’s Vom Himmel Hoch, Orff’s Carmina burana, the Poulenc Gloria, Saint-Saëns’ Oratorio de Noël, Schoenberg’s Friede auf Erden (with Sarasota Orchestra) and the Verdi Requiem (with Tampa Bay Master Chorale).
Luis has also served as Assistant Conductor for Opera Tampa, Assistant Conductor and Chorus Master at Savannah VOICE Festival, and is former Chorus Master at St. Petersburg Opera (FL). Credits with these organizations include La bohème, Turandot, Pagliacci, Norma, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Roméo et Juliette, Carmen, Les pêcheurs de perles, Dialogues des Carmélites, West Side Story, Rachel Portman’s The Little Prince and Anton Coppolla’s Lady Swanwhite.
A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Luis earned his Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance at San José State University under the tutelage of Dr. David Rohrbaugh (voice), Michel Singher (opera), Erie Mills (lyric diction), Joseph Frank (art song repertoire), Elena Sharkova (choral music) and Sharon Brook (piano). He earned his Master of Music in Vocal Performance at University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he completed graduate studies with Dr. Alfonse Anderson (voice and vocal pedagogy), Dr. Carol Kimball (French and American Art Song), Dr. David Weiller (choral music) and Christine Seitz (opera and musical theater). Additional mentors include soprano Stella Zambalis and Metropolitan Opera Assistant Conductor, Prompter, Pianist and Vocal Coach Caren Levine. He is an alumnus of several opera young artist programs, including those of Crested Butte Music Festival, AIMS Festival in Graz and baritone Sherrill Milnesʼ VOICExperience.
In addition to his work with Diablo Choral Artists, Luis currently sings with the Choir of Men and Boys at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. He also maintains private online and in-person voice studios where he prepares students of all ages for various professional engagements, competitions, auditions, recordings, and other public performances. He has taught at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and State College of Florida, with additional private students at University of Michigan SMTD, University of Colorado at Boulder, Duke University and Phillips Exeter Academy.
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