Anastasios Vrenios
Voice

Anastasios Vrenios brings his international talent and credentials as a voice master teacher and an acclaimed tenor to the Amalfi Coast Music Festival this year. He currently is a member of the voice faculty at both George Mason University and the American University in Washington, D.C., having also taught at the Curtis Institute and the Indiana University. His students have gone on to occupy places in leading opera houses around the country.

Mr. Vrenios holds his Bachelor of Music from the University of the Pacific, where he has since been honored as the “Alumnus of the Decade”. He received his Masters degree in Vocal Performance from Indiana University and embarked on an international singing career. Highlights of his outstanding international career as a tenor include several major opera productions with Joan Sutherland, including Raoul in the European debut of Les Huguenots (conducted by Richard Bonynge, Royal Albert Hall, London), Idreno in Semiramide (with Sutherland and Marilyn Horne, conducted by Richard Bonynge, Drury Lane Theatre, London), Ottavio in Don Giovanni (Seattle Opera), Gerard in Lakmé (with Sutherland and Gabriel Bacquier, Philadelphia Opera), and La Traviata (Boston Opera). Joan Sutherland has described Mr. Vrenios as one of her favorite tenors.

Mr Vrenios has performed opposite Beverly Sills in Abduction from the Seraglio at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago. He sang the role of Don Ottavio twice with Justino Diaz as the title character in Don Giovanni, at the Spoleto Festival in Italy with conductor Thomas Schippers, and at the New Orleans Opera.

Mr. Vrenios has had the opportunity to perform with a number of nationally and internationally acclaimed orchestras and conductors including the New York Philharmonic and the Toronto Symphony with Seiji Ozawa, the Boston Symphony with Ms. Sutherland, the Cincinnati Symphony and the Spoleto Festival with Thomas Schippers, the San Francisco Symphony, Tanglewood with Henry Holt, the Pittsburgh Symphony and the Cleveland Symphony with DeBurgos, the Cleveland Symphony with Chavez, the Detroit Symphony with Ehrling, and the Chicago Symphony. He has also performed more than 300 solo recitals throughout the United States, Canada and Europe, including duet recitals with Joan Sutherland with the Chicago Symphony and Veronica Tyler at Alice Tully Hall.

His recordings with Joan Sutherland include Les Huguenots for London Recordings, Lakme for Bella Voce Recording, and Semiramide (with Sutherland and Horne) on Arcadia Recording. He also performed in the televised production of La Rondine for CBC with Teresa Stratas.

In addition to his teaching career, Mr. Vrenios has served as the Choir Director at St. George Greek Orthodox Church for over 25 years. With this choral ensemble, he has given concerts at the National Cathedral and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, and has hosted the National Greek Orthodox Choir conference in October of 2000.

Vocal Program
Vocal Program, Faculty