Dr. David Ronis

Biography

David Ronis is an Associate Professor and the Director of University Opera at the Mead Witter School of Music, University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has maintained a multi-faceted career involving an active teaching schedule, having previously taught at the Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College/CUNY, Hofstra University, and Wagner College. Ronis has received numerous accolades, including thirteen awards from the National Opera Association Production Competition for UW-Madison's 2021-22 productions 'Remain' and 'Sweeney Todd'. Additionally, he has been recognized with four awards from the American Prize and was a recipient of the 2018 Charles Nelson Reilly Award for Opera/Musical Theater Directing. His directorial work spans various esteemed organizations, including Shreveport Opera, Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, and the Manhattan School of Music, among others. As a co-founder of the Baroque Opera Workshop, Ronis has also been actively involved with the American Institute of Musical Studies (AIMS) in Graz, Austria. Specializing in integrative acting movement techniques for singers, he frequently teaches master classes at various notable institutions. Ronis is a seasoned performer with over 50 operatic roles to his credit and has appeared as a soloist in prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall. He holds a B.F.A. from Purchase College of the State University of New York and an M.A.L.S. in Opera Studies from Empire State College/SUNY, and studied at the Conservatoire Américain in Fontainebleau, France.

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