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Norman Wakefield

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About Me

real editor best profile tools I am married to my beautiful & wonderful wife Jessica. My son, Fraser Patrick was born 24 October 2007. I live in the Portland area and have a cat. I'm completing my Master of Music in Vocal Performance at Portland State University, where I am also the Opera Graduate Teaching Assistant. I teach group voice as well as assist the Vocal Studies Director. I have sung with the PSU Chamber Choir and with Cantores in Ecclesia . On top of that I sing in a trio with my friends Caitlin and Rajiv. We focus primarily on sacred polyphony including chant. It's great fun.
I'm originally from Crescent City, CA. I grew up in the redwoods, along the Pacific Ocean and the Smith River. I have to give CC something and that's that it has great beaches, and forests. Outside of CC, Portland and Eugene I have traveled England, France, Germany (Sang in the Internationaler Kammerchor-Wettbewerb Marktoberdorf ), Canada the US and have lived in Mexico.
I love to read, listen to music, talk and have fun. I can be a bit reclusive at times but still like to hang out.

My Blog

Instructor Rating

Wow I feel like such and adult. I just found my first rating on the myspace professor rating system (Even if it was from two years agao). Well at least I got an A :)
Posted by on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:44:00 GMT

Opera America

I've been in Seattle the last few days at the Opera America conference.  It has been great.  So much networking is wonderful for the carreer.  It's just great getting to meet so many pe...
Posted by on Sat, 06 May 2006 14:16:00 GMT

Song lit

Just got done with my song lit class. That class was great fun. I feel I will learn a great deal from it and I have to say that I even like the books. In fact I've almost read one already. Between...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Jan 2006 22:33:00 GMT

Grad School

You know applying to Grad school is sort of a pain in the ass. I mean I'm going to the same damn school. The have all my information and all my transcripts, but I still have to order new sets of tra...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Jan 2006 14:59:00 GMT

Stuff

Jessica is at a training for her new intership at OMSI. I'm glad she got the position because I know how much she wanted to do it. I think it will be fun, and hey now we get in for free. :) Happy d...
Posted by on Sat, 07 Jan 2006 11:33:00 GMT

books

Well I'm getting ready to go pick up some of my text books. I have to go pick up a book for piano and some books for song lit. There were no books or CDs listed for grad history review, which seems ...
Posted by on Sat, 07 Jan 2006 11:30:00 GMT

everything

I'm listening to a fellow countertenor singing Vivaldi's Nisi Dominus. Just got done doing push ups. Where am I right now. Thinking about how I need to finish learning this work before the end of n...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Jan 2006 22:41:00 GMT

Slow day

Wow it's almost noon and I've probably been awake for only a half hour. I got up took a shower, sent an email and now I'm just sitting here checking out myspace and thought I'd attempt a blog entry. ...
Posted by on Fri, 11 Nov 2005 11:58:00 GMT