Garry Gable has enjoyed a performing career that has taken him across Canada and into the USA and China in all types of classical music, musical theater, drama, television, radio, in-concert and stage presentations. He has taught and performed several times in China, where he is adjunct faculty in Music Universities and Conservatories in Wuhan, Tianjin, and Lanzhou. Garry has also been heard widely in
recital with his spouse/pianist Kathleen Lohrenz Gable.
A resident of Saskatoon since 1994, he has taught vocal studies and directed the Music Theatre Ensemble as Associate Professor at the University of Saskatchewan. He is a past recipient of the Provost’s Award for Outstanding Teaching at the University of Saskatchewan. Among his many students over the years are multiple winners of Canadian Music Festival National Finals Competitions, Gordon Wallace Opera Competitions, SMFA Provincial Competitions, the Saskatchewan and Manitoba Young Artists Competitions, the Canada West Music Festival, the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (Regional), and the Netherlands National Opera Auditions. He has also been a guest vocal instructor for the opera training programs Vancouver Summer Opera Studio, and Bel Canto in Tuscany, in Greve-in-Chianti, Italy.
Symphony appearances include Handel’s Messiah, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, the Bruckner Mass in F, William Walton’s Façade, Brahms’ Ein deutches Requiem, and narrations of How the Grinch stole Christmas, and The night before Christmas.
In Saskatchewan, Garry has performed with Persephone Theatre, and Regina and Saskatoon Symphonies, and Saskatoon Opera Association. Roles include Maurice in Beauty and the Beast, and as Mr. Potter in the musical adaptation of Its a Wonderful Life, Balthazar and Melchior in Amahl and the night visitors, Frank in Die Fledermaus, Il Commendatore in Don Giovanni, Dulcamara in L’elisir d’amore, Alcindoro in La Bohème, Dr. Bartolo in Le Nozze di Figaro, Zuniga in Carmen, Il Bonze Madama Butterfly, and Pangloss in Candide (Regina Symphony).
Garry is looking forward to reprising How the Grinch Stole Christmas, with the SSO.
