Bill Thorpe, Actor & Singer - www.billthorpe.net
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Bill Thorpe ACTOR & SINGER (LEGIT BARITONE)

Speaking roles in films and television include work with Academy Award winners Clint Eastwood, Sean Penn, Mel Gibson, Jennifer Lawrence, Sissy Spacek, and Frances McDormand, as well as with Larry David, David O. Russell, and Aerosmith film director Casey Patrick Tebo. He has appeared in independent films, documentaries, and national and international radio & television commercials, and in movies shown at the Sundance Film Festival, the Tribeca Film Festival, and the Independent Film Festival Boston.

As a singer (legit baritone), he has performed as soloist in thirty-two U.S. states through American Artists Management of New York, and in collaboration with the Cole Porter Musical and Literary Trusts, was soloist on the CBS Television Network broadcast celebrating the Cole Porter centennial and for the U.S. Post Office release of the Cole Porter commemorative first-class postage stamp. He represented the United States as part of a two-night international concert sponsored by the United Nations and the Peoples’ Republic of China before a sold-out audience of 36,000 in Shanghai, followed by other performances in China, including the Beijing Concert Hall. He recently returned to Germany for solo performances in Cologne, the Westerwald, and the Rhineland, including a standing ovation at the historic Apollinariskirche at Remagen.

He recorded songs from the musicals of Cole Porter and Lerner & Loewe with the Stuttgart Symphony, sang the role of Orpheus for the National Public Radio broadcast of Orpheus and Euridice on The Spider’s Web series, and has been soloist at the Bethlehem Music Festival, the Missouri River Festival, the Arizona Heritage Festivals, the Westport Levitt Pavilion Music Festival, the White Mountain Bach Festival, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, as well as with Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Boston, the Handel & Haydn Society, Boston Concert Opera at Symphony Hall, the Ocean City Pops Orchestra, Boston Civic Symphony, The Landmarks Orchestra, the Marlboro Symphony, and other east-coast orchestras.

Thorpe earned degrees from New England Conservatory and Boston Conservatory with additional studies at the Philadelphia Musical Academy (University of the Arts) and the Lichtenberg Voice Institute in Germany. He is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society, the Screen Actors Guild, Actors' Equity, the American Guild of Musical Artists and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP).

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