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A couple of months ago Rachel Lee came across his name as a recording
engineer for the Bruno Walter Edition on Sony.
And then Derek Lim replied, 'Wasn't he a boy soprano?'
I can give something of an update.
After a brilliant career as a boy soprano, he continued to study cello,
which he'd been studying all along. He is from a very musical family;
his father is a pianist, Dady Mehta, who, I think, teaches at a university
in Michigan. His mother is a singer. At sixteen, after his soprano voice
had 'broken', he went to Yale to study cello under the legendary Aldo
Parisot. He also studied singing, in his 'new' baritone voice, with the
also-legendary Phyllis Curtin. But somewhere along the way he also started
his own audio engineering company.
And I'd heard that he began singing again as a counter-tenor, after hearing
about the same sort of voice category change for David Daniels, now one of
our leading counter-tenors.
I don't know, however, what he is doing as we speak. I don't recall seeing
anything about a singing career these days. Anyone know?
Scott Morrison
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