Michael J. O'Donnell (Mike) The Fun Guy Résumé of Singing Experience

Objective

Studies

• 2003-present, Susan Charles, Music Institute of Chicago.
  
  
• 1979-1981, Diane Fuchs. West Lafayette, Indiana.
  
  

Ensembles

• 2007-present, Figgy Pudding, renaissance trio with good cholesterol. Greater Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
  
  
• 2007, Chancel Choir, First United Methodist Church, Evanston. Jerry Jelsema director. Evanston, Illinois.
  
  
• 2006-present, Too Hot Choir. Bill Fraher, director. Chicago, Illinois.
  
  
• 2006, Music Institute Chorale, Daniel Wallenberg, director. Evanston, Illinois.
  
  
• 2004-2006, North Park University Chamber Singers. Wayland Rogers, director. Chicago, Illinois.
  
  
• 2003, Da Guys, barbershop quartet. Greater Chicago, Illinois.
  
  
• 1986-1990, Nite-Lites Singers. Carol Foley, director. Pop sextet performing at charity fundraisers. Glencoe, Illinois.
  
  
• 1977-1980, Bach Chorale Singers. Paul Krasnovsky, director. West Lafayette, Indiana.
  
  
• 1974-1976, Itha-Kords, (now The Ithachords). Ron Clayton, director. SPEBSQSA (now Barbershop Harmony Society) barbershop chorus. Ithaca, New York.
  
  

Recent and Future Gigs

• 2011 January 15, 16, Too Hot to Handel (chorus). Suzanne Acton, director. Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, Illinois.
  
  
• 2010 Spring. Singing gondolier with Old World Gondoliers.
  
  
• 2009 December 13, Victorian Christmas carol quartet. Juliet Petrus, director. Wilde Bar & Restaurant, Chicago, Illinois.
  
  

Recordings

I started recording the Irish Melodies by Thomas Moore.

I recorded my Personal Folk Legacy.

I wondered how Oscar Wilde's "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" would sound as an actual ballad. Here are Parts I and II.

I made a very weird recording to audition for a "gloomy" group. See my private Web page.

Two ancient (c. 2004) audition recordings:

1. "Nina" by Legrenzio Vincenzo Ciampi (but often attributed to Pergolesi) from his comic opera "Gli tre cicisbei ridicoli," which premiered at the King's Theatre, London, 1748 (AIFF format, 16,861,042 bytes).
   
   
2. "Countin' Flowers on the Wall" by Lewis DeWitt, Statler Brothers, 1966 (AIFF format, 12,949,222 bytes).

I intend to work up a number of licensed and expired-copyright compositions, solo and multitrack, to post on the Internet Archive. Here's a quick prototype (c. 2005), but not sufficiently musical: looping of a catch.

Languages

Speak fluently and sing in

American

Speak and sing in

English, French

Sing in

Italian, Spanish, German, Latin, Hebrew, Middle French, Scots, Gibberish

Range

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