Curtis Streetman

- Voice Professor, Director of Opera
- DM.A., Rutgers University
- M.M., Boston University
- B.M., Eastman School of Music
Contact Information
- Department: Music
- Office: Foster 323
- Mailing Address: Foster 101
- Email: curtis.streetman@eku.edu
- Phone: 859-622-1335
Bio
Curtis Streetman, bass, is part of a generation of versatile artists that strives to perform a rich and excitingly varied repertoire. Mr. Streetman’s interpretive gifts have been presented in some of the world’s major concert halls and opera houses.
Mr. Streetman has sung the major bass roles in Le Nozze di Figaro (Figaro), Die Zauberflötte (Sarastro), La Boheme (Colline), Don Giovanni (Leporello), Rigoletto (Sparafucile) as well as leads in Verdi, Handel and Rossini operas. Operatic performances include appearances at The Salzburg Festival,as well as opera houses in Vienna, Bilbau, Dortmund, Halle, Naples, and Victoria. Recent operatic debuts include performances in Geneva, Basel, and at The Theatre Champs-Elyseée in Paris.
Festival appearances include Tanglewood, Ravinia, The Hong Kong Arts Festival, The Boston Early Music Festival, The Halle Handel Festival, and The San Juan Arts Festival. Mr. Streetman was featured in a Canadian tour of Bach’s St. John Passion with Les Violons du Roi, and toured The United States with The Rebel Ensemble in a critically acclaimed program featuring German baroque music.
Other performances include appearances at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and at Vienna’s Musikverein in Handel’s Radamisto. He made his Kennedy Center debut with The National Symphony in performances of Handel’s Messiah, and performed Schumann’s Szenen aus Goethe’s Faust , with The Cleveland Orchestra. Mr. Streetman has also appeared with The San Diego Symphony in performances of Mozart’s Requiem.
Recording credits include Monteverdi’s Vespers for Musical Heritage Society, Castelnuovo-Tedesko’s Romanciero Gitano for New World Classics, Charpentier Christmas Cantatas for Naxos, Handel’s Riccardo Primo on Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, and Andrew Parrrott’s recording of Monteverdi’d Orfeo on the Avie label.
Mr. Streetman performed the role of Christus in Sir Jonathan Miller’s acclaimed fully staged production of The Saint Matthew Passion, produced by The Brooklyn Academy of Music, and performed the title role of Lalo’s Le Roi d’Ysat Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hallwith The American Symphony Orchestra. He will make his Bolshoi Operadebut this season in performances of Monteverdi’s Orfeo.
Courses
Subject | Title | Dates | Location | Term |
MUS 122 | Voice I | M 1:25pm-2:15pm | Foster Building 212 | Spring 2019 |
MUS 122 | Voice I | M 1:25pm-2:15pm | Foster Building 212 | Spring 2019 |
MUS 220 | Diction for Singers | TR 12:30pm-1:20pm | Foster Building 312 | Spring 2019 |
MUS 222 | Voice II | M 1:25pm-2:15pm | Foster Building 212 | Spring 2019 |
MUS 222 | Voice II | M 1:25pm-2:15pm | Foster Building 212 | Spring 2019 |
MUS 250 | Chamber Opera Scenes | TR 3:30pm-5:30pm | Campbell Building 137 | Spring 2019 |
MUS 250 | Chamber Opera Scenes | TR 3:30pm-5:30pm | Campbell Building 137 | Spring 2019 |
MUS 322 | Voice III | M 1:25pm-2:15pm | Foster Building 212 | Spring 2019 |
MUS 322 | Voice III | M 1:25pm-2:15pm | Foster Building 212 | Spring 2019 |
MUS 322 | Voice III | M 1:25pm-2:15pm | Foster Building 212 | Spring 2019 |
MUS 322 | Voice III | M 1:25pm-2:15pm | Foster Building 212 | Spring 2019 |
MUS 422 | Voice IV | M 1:25pm-2:15pm | Foster Building 212 | Spring 2019 |
MUS 422 | Voice IV | M 1:25pm-2:15pm | Foster Building 212 | Spring 2019 |
MUS 422 | Voice IV | M 1:25pm-2:15pm | Foster Building 212 | Spring 2019 |
MUS 422 | Voice IV | M 1:25pm-2:15pm | Foster Building 212 | Spring 2019 |
MUS 522 | Voice V | Foster Building 323 | Spring 2019 | |
MUS 522 | Voice V | Foster Building 323 | Spring 2019 | |
MUS 550 | Teaching Techniques | MF 9:05am-9:55am | Foster Building 323 | Spring 2019 |
MUS 551 | Performance Literature | Spring 2019 | ||
MUS 722 | Voice V | Foster Building 322 | Spring 2019 | |
MUS 722 | Voice V | Foster Building 322 | Spring 2019 | |
MUS 750 | Teaching Techniques | MF 9:05am-9:55am | Foster Building 323 | Spring 2019 |
MUS 751 | Performance Literature | Spring 2019 | ||
MUS 822 | Voice | Spring 2019 | ||
MUS 822 | Voice | Spring 2019 |