A Hybrid Event - live & online

Saturday, March 4, 2023

9 am - 3 pm PDT

Pepperdine University

Raitt Recital Hall

24255 E Pacific Coast Hwy

Malibu, CA 90263

Parking available at Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts at Pepperdine

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Symposium Schedule

9 AM - 10 AM - Registration / Meet & Greet

10 AM - 12 PM - Morning Masterclass with brothers Colclough

12 PM - 1 PM - Lunch (Light lunch items available, courtesy of NATS-LA. Those with special dietary needs should bring their own lunch.)

1 PM - 3 PM - Afternoon Masterclass with brothers Colclough

A native of Southern California, Craig Colclough received his Masters of Music from the University of Redlands. Colclough’s 2021-22 season opened with his Lyric Opera of Chicago debut in the role of Macbeth. Verdi’s Macbeth has become a signature, serving as Colclough’s debut at the Metropolitan Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Lyric Opera of Chicago and Luxembourg Opera. Last season saw his return to the Royal Opera House Covent Gardens where he reprised his role as Telramund in Lohengrin. Colclough is currently building the character of Alberich under the direction of Brigitte Fassbaender for the Tiroler Festspiele in Austria. Having debuted Alberich in her 2021 Rheingold to great acclaim, Colclough will complete the Cycle in 2024.

2018-19 included appearances as Peter in Hansel & Gretel at the Los Angeles Opera, Fra Melitone in La Forza del Destino for his company debut with Oper Frankfurt, as well as the Storyteller in A Flowering Tree for his company debut with Opera Queensland. During the summer, he returned to the title role of Don Pasquale with the Berkshire Opera Festival.

Mr. Colclough’s 2017-18 season included debuts with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as Pistola in Falstaff, Opera Vlaanderen as Falstaff in Falstaff (directed by Oscar-winning actor Christoph Waltz), Boston Lyric Opera as Hare in the world premiere of Burke and Hare, and Dallas Opera as Peter Vogel in Der Ring des Polykrates. He also made returns to Minnesota Opera as the title role in Don Pasquale and Los Angeles Opera as Monterone in Rigoletto.

The autumn of 2016 found Craig Colclough’s return to London for Scarpia in Tosca with English National Opera, a role which served as his debut at Canadian Opera Company later in the season. He also joined the Minnesota Opera for Doristo in L’arbore di Diana, and spent the summer singing the title role in Verdi’s Falstaff with Opera Saratoga.

In the 2015-2016 season Mr. Colclough’s performances included appearances with Arizona Opera as the title role in Falstaff and Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, for Timur in Turandot, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. Additionally, he returned to English National Opera for his role debut of Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde, and Los Angeles Opera for Simone in Gianni Schicchi. On the concert stage, he debuted with the Los Angeles Philharmonic as Dottore Grenvil in La traviata.

In the 2014-2015 season, Craig Colclough made his European debut with English National Opera as Jack Rance in La Fanciulla del West, returned to Los Angeles Opera for concert performances of Hercules v. Vampires (roles of God of Evil and Procrustes), and also debuted with Atlanta Opera as Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro, as well as Lyric Opera of Kansas City as Lieutenant Gordon in Silent Night.

During the 2013-2014 season, the bass-baritone essayed the title role in Don Pasquale at the Arizona Opera, covered the title role in Falstaff for both San Francisco Opera and Los Angeles Opera, and appeared as Bosun in Billy Budd at the Los Angeles Opera. In concert, Mr. Colcough appeared with the Orange County Philharmonic Society for Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. 

Past leading roles also include, Don Giovanni, Leporello and Il Commendatore in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Nick Shadow in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, Collatinus in Brittain’s The Rape of Lucretia, Oroveso in Bellini’s Norma, Rambaldo in Puccini’s La Rondine, Raimondo in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Friar Laurence in Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet and Elijah in Mendelssohn’s Elijah. Additional credits include the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, California Philharmonic, Capitol Records, Abbey Road Studios and the soundtrack of the film Rolled.

Praised in Opera News for his "rich authoritative" voice, Bass-baritone Dr. Keith Colclough is equally at home as a performer, scholar, and educator. He maintains an active performing career and has been a soloist with a number of arts organizations, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Opera Santa Barbara, Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera, Pacific Opera Project, LACMA Sundays Live, Salastina Society, and the Santa Barbara Choral Society. He also gives frequent recitals of art songs and musical theater, and has significant experience as a choral and studio singer.

Dr. Colclough serves as Associate Professor of Voice and Director of Opera at Pepperdine University, where his duties include private voice lessons, diction courses, and vocal and stage direction for the Flora L. Thornton Opera Program. Past directing credits include Le Nozze di Figaro, Gianni Schicchi, Dido and Aeneas, Die Fledermaus, and Cendrillon. His students recently won first place in Division I of the NOA Collegiate Opera Scenes Competition with a Scene from Floyd’s Susannah. Colclough also directs the vocal side of Pepperdine’s Heidelberg Summer Music Program, performing with students throughout Austria and Germany.

In addition to his duties at Pepperdine, Dr. Colclough maintains a studio of professional voice students, several of whom have found success on major operatic stages and national musical theatre tours. A Fulbright scholar to Germany, Colclough examined the evolution of Schubert’s compositional style and the elevation of Lieder as a genre in his DMA Document, “Schubert’s Incorporation and Transcendence of Recitative in German Lieder,” which explores the influence of opera and cantata on early German Lieder. Dr. Colclough has served on the faculty at the AMDA College and Conservatory of the Performing Arts, Los Angeles, and in 2018, he was a vocal intern at the prestigious NATS Intern Program.

Dr. Colclough has been a vocal fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, Fall Island Vocal Arts Seminar, Music Academy of the West, the Aspen Opera Center, and Songfest. He was a studio artist at Opera Santa Barbara and a member of their improvisation-based outreach program, Opera Lab, improvising operas at elementary schools throughout Santa Barbara and Ventura County.