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 DAVID HALL SUNDQUIST, began playing the trumpet at age ten and had already been singing in the youth choir at church. He eventually played the trombone and tuba through his first year of college and was the drum major of his high school and university bands. He switched to vocal performance and served as an apprentice artist at the Santa Fe Opera ('63, '64) and in his second season made his unexpected debut as "Leukippos" in Richard Strauss' DAPHNE. He was a member of the Chicago Lyric Opera chorus ('61-'64) and in February '66, placed second to a coloratura soprano at the Metropolitan Opera Regional Auditons. Two weeks later, David was inducted in the Army and performed as a soloist and member of the U.S. Army Chorus (Pershing's Own) in Washington D.C. ('66-'69). He went directly to the San Francisco Opera from the chorus, ('70-'72) free-lanced throughout the U.S. (('73-'74) and was awarded a $10,000. National Opera Institute Grant by George London, following performances at Tanglewood. After performances at the Kennedy Center in '74, David accepted a contract in France and eventually went to Switzerland and Austria, in 1978.
After a career of more than 25 years as a professional singer in Opera, Concert, Film, Television and Radio, including twelve years in Europe, David returned to the United States to join the music faculty in the College of Music at the University of North Texas in September, 1989. He had sung over 500 performances of more than 60 Opera roles, from "Almaviva" to "Hoffmann", plus numerous concert works from Monteverdi to Stravinsky, throughout the United States and Europe, including the cities of Boston, Chicago, Dallas/Fort Worth, Graz, New York, Paris, Salzburg, San Francisco, Santa Fe, Strasbourg, Vienna and Washington, D.C..
An impressive array of conductors, directors, teachers and coaches with whom he has worked includes: Sarah Caldwell, Berton Coffin, James Conlon, John Crosby, Arthur Fiedler, Boris Goldovsky, Hans Graf, Anton Guadagno, Otto Guth, Theodor Guschlbauer, Martin Katz, Harry Kupfer, Jorge Lavelli, Alain Lombard, Fabio Luisi, Eduardo Mata, John Moriarty, Michel Plasson, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Rosa Ponselle, Eve Queler, Harvey Ringle, Frederick Schauwecker, Gunther Schuler, Ian and Ignace Strasfogel, Igor Stravinsky, Michael Tilson-Thomas, Richard Woitach, John Wustman and Franco Zeffirelli.
While at the University of North Texas, Mr. Sundquist has served as an adjudicator for the Metropolitan Opera National Council and the National Association of Teachers of Singing, district and regional auditions, where his students have been finalists and winners. A graduate of Chicago Musical College (now, Chicago College of the Performing Arts) of Roosevelt University, David has also studied at Washburn University of Topeka Kansas and at the Hochschule fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Graz, Austria. In 2000, David was diagnosed with Parkinsonisms (thanks to medication continues to perform) and dedicates his performances to those who combat similar diseases.
Dichterliebe - Robert Schumann; Harold Heiberg, piano
Ich will meine Seele tauchen
Im Rhein, im heiligen Strome
Ich grolle nicht
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