IVOR KLAYMAN - SINGING COACH
coachsinging@hotmail.com | Edinburgh | 07712 866 402
PATIENT, FOCUSED AND EXPERIENCED
IVOR KLAYMAN
SINGING COACH
"As a skilled and experienced singer and performer, I can help unlock your full potential by providing targeted guidance, complementing your work with your singing teacher."
Ivor is an accomplished Baritone with more than four decades of experience. He has sung more than forty five principal Operatic roles on stage and in concert, as well as Oratorio, German Lieder, French Chansons, Italian Arie, English Art Songs and Scots songs.
Ivor offers vocal coaching in all of the above disciplines to singers with sound technique. Based in Edinburgh, he is happy to travel within the Central Belt.
MY STORY
Baritone and Vocal Coach
I studied singing with John and Marie Tainsh. I have sung more than 45 roles in opera with Edinburgh University Savoy Opera Group and Opera Club, Opera Camerata, In House Opera, Opera on a Shoestring and Edinburgh Grand Opera. I have been a member of Edinburgh Festival Chorus since 1970, performing with internationally acclaimed conductors, orchestras, singers and vocal coaches both as a chorus member and as a soloist in several Edinburgh International Festival concerts.
During my extensive career singing Opera, I have also built up a wide solo repertoire in oratorio, concert works and recitals ranging from Bach to Walton, including Bach's St Matthew and St John Passions, Orff's Carmina Burana, Haydn's Creation, Berlioz' Damnation of Faust, Handel's Messiah and the Requiems of Britten, Fauré, Mozart and Verdi.
Lieder recitals include all three Schubert cycles, Schumann's Dichterliebe and other songs, songs by Faure and Duparc, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen and Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Mahler), and English cycles (e.g. A Shropshire Lad, Songs of Travel).
Operatic roles include: William Tell (Rossini, William Tell), Belcore and Dulcamara (Donizetti, L'Elisir d'Amore), Nabucco (Verdi, Nabucco), Macbeth (Verdi, Macbeth), Germont Pere (Verdi, La Traviata), Prince Igor (Rimsky-Korsacov, Prince Igor), Herod (Massenet, Hérodiade), Pilgrim (Vaughan Williams,The Pilgrim's Progress) and Falstaff (Vaughan Williams, Sir John in Love). I have also played Noye (Britten, Noye's Fludde) and Tevye (Bock, Fiddler on the Roof).
VOCAL COACHING
I offer coaching for singers who have sound technique, designed to complement your work with your singing teacher by providing guidance on the pronunciation of French, German, Italian and Scots (and English), diction and presentation for Opera, Oratorio, German Lieder, French Chanson, Italian Arie, English Art Song and Scots songs.
TESTIMONIALS
“This lovely gentleman helped me improve my French pronunciation in just a few short hours. Ivor is a very patient tutor with a wealth of linguistic knowledge and I highly recommend him!”
Sophie, a student of Margaret Aronson
“Ivor works well with my students, preparing them for examinations and auditions for colleges and also for performances. His long experience and facility with his languages means that he can tailor his coaching to each individual performer. He works calmly, patiently and with clarity, understanding the musical, physical and mental needs of those he coaches.”
Margaret Ann Aronson
Singing Teacher, Examiner and Adjudicator.
Singing Staff: St. Mary's Music School.
Training Director, at A.o.t.o.s
REVIEWS
“Ivor Klayman's Tom was a consummately engaging comic foil”
(La Prigione di Edimburgo, Ricci, Edinburgh Grand Opera)
The Scotsman
“Baritone Ivor Klayman, the most experienced of the quartet,
acted his solos most persuasively”
(Requiem, Verdi,
Massed Border Choirs)
Bachtrack.com
“a strong performance from
Ivor Klayman as Germont.
(La Traviata, Verdi,
Edinburgh Grand Opera)
All Edinburgh Theatre
"Ivor Klayman, as always, brings keen articulation and character to his role,
in this case the grizzled smuggler
Le Dancaire."
(Carmen, Bizet,
Edinburgh Grand Opera)
The Scotsman
****
"Ivor Klayman gave a suitably austere performance of the cantata, solemnly emphasising each word of the original German text to great effect.”
(Ich habe genug, Bach,
Edinbugh Festival Fringe)
Broadway Baby
"Ivor Klayman's excellent delivery of Psalm 130 was especially impressive in the harmonically challenging setting of Deprecationis Mea."
(Sandokan Threnody, Mills, Edinburgh International Festival )