External links
- William Stone official website
- Short Biography (Academy of Vocal Arts)
- Short biography (Bach-Cantatas.com)
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William Stone (born March 12, 1944, Goldsboro, North Carolina) is an American operatic baritone. He is a graduate of Duke University (B.A., 1966) and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (M.M. 1968, D.M.A. 1979). He made his professional operatic debut in 1975 and his international debut in 1977. [1]
He was inducted as a National Patron of Delta Omicron, an international professional music fraternity on April 1, 2003. [2] [3]
William Stone is a Vocal Instructor at the Academy of Vocal Arts [4] in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the Curtis Institute of Music. He was Professor of Voice and Opera at the Boyer College of Music and Dance, Temple University, from September, 2005 through June, 2010.
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