Larry Gerber

Larry Gerber, Professor of Voice and, Coord. of the Voice area at the FSU College of Music, received his Bachelor of Music degree from Fort Hays Kansas State University and his Master of Music degree from Colorado State University. A member of the voice faculty at FSU since 1979, Mr. Gerber teaches voice, vocal pedagogy and directs the Men’s Glee Club. An active performer, Mr. Gerber has performed opera, oratorio and recitals in the United States, Europe, the Caribbean, Central America and Pakistan.

Among the many operatic roles Mr. Gerber has performed are: Tamino (The Magic Flute), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Rodolfo (La Bohème), Count Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia) and Lysander (A Midsummer Night's Dream). As tenor soloist, he has been heard in numerous oratorios such as: Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem, The Creation, Elijah, Bach’s St. John Passion and St. Matthew Passion. He has been a principal artist with The National Opera of Costa Rica, Orlando Opera, Charlotte Opera, Birmingham Civic Opera, Atlanta Symphony, Charleston Opera, Dallas Bach Society, Jacksonville Symphony, The Classical Music Seminar in Eisenstadt, Austria, Shreveport Opera, Brevard Music Center, Greenville (SC) Symphony, Tallahassee Symphony, and Florida State Opera.

Since 1990 Mr. Gerber has received four awards for outstanding teaching from The Florida State University. He has also held teaching positions at the University of Alabama and the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities. Mr. Gerber also is an active teacher for Florida State University International Programs. He has taught for FSU in London, Valencia, Spain and Munich. Mr. Gerber assumed the duties of coordinator of Voice and Opera at FSU in 2010.