See Ian’s resume.
Ian is currently a private voice teacher, singer, and director in the Las Cruces area. In the coming months he will sing the role of Nemorino in Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’amore and Franz Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin. Most recently, he sang the tenor solo’s in Felix Mendelssohn’s St. Paul.
Ian has appeared in revues at the Boba Cabaret featuring the music of Stephen Sondheim, Lerner and Lowe, and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Most recently, he arranged, wrote, and directed a revue there of Simon and Garfunkel’s music entitled Homeward Bound: The Music of Simon and Garfunkel, which had 12 nearly or fully sold-out shows and received enthusiastic audience responses.
He recently finished his Master of Music degree at New Mexico State University where he studied with Prof. Andrew Zimmerman. At NMSU, he was cast in the premieres of Extinction: A Love Story and We Are Enron, both of which were composed by Las Cruces locals: Enron by Chris Sanders and Justin Raines and Extinction by Bob Diven. He was also the bass soloist for Bach’s St. John Passion under the direction of Dr. Jerry Alt.
Between his Bachelor’s and Masters studies, Ian was directer, technical director, and publicist for Guys and Dolls at the Our Mother of Sorrows Catholic School.
He received his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Arizona where he appeared in the operas The Telephone, Little Women, Falstaff, Beauty and the Beast, and The Student Prince. He also sang as a bass soloist in the St. Matthew Passion.
Musical theater credits include roles in West Side Story, Chicago, Damn Yankees, My Fair Lady, Phantom, Anything Goes, Oklahoma!, Little Shop of Horrors, Once Upon a Mattress, and Grease. In 2004 and 2005, Ian sang in the University of Arizona a capella group Everyman Jack and Jill. Ian also appeared with a number of rock bands in the Tucson area as singer, songwriter, and electric guitarist. As a non-singing actor, Ian starred in the plays Arsenic and Old Lace as Mortimer and in Tennessee Williams’ Talk to me like the Rain and Let me Listen.
Ian was hired as the sound designer for Agua Fria High School during Fall 1999-Spring 2001. This included work on plays, musicals, choral concerts, public speaking events, and assisting outside acts.