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Classically-trained vocalist
Ed Kruczynski is a multitalented performing artist. First and foremost he is a tenor soloist who also has experience
singing baritone roles. God has blessed him with an incredibly warm and expressive singing voice that has been known to move
even grown men to tears.
Equally at home with classical,
Broadway, jazz, and operatic styles, Ed recently abandoned opera and community theatre and now is focusing on singing solos
after ensemble work in the Boston Pops Holiday Chorus (22 Holiday Pops concerts in the northeastern USA conducted by Keith
Lockhart and others), Granite State Opera (a professional opera company with guests soloists from the Metropolitan and New
York City operas), and the New World Chorale (along with some of the best ensemble singers in New England including members
of the famed Tanglewood Festival Chorus).
Ed has sung for audiences
in five different languages, including his first French and German ensemble performances in 2006. Solo appearances have included
character roles with the Community Players of Concord, New Hampshire, including First Officer William Murdoch in Titanic:
The Musical (solo: "To Be a Captain") and with the Franklin Center for the Arts in Gilbert & Sullivan's comic opera farce,
Patience, as Archibald Grosvenor--Ed's first leading role (solos: "Prithee Pretty Maiden" and "A Magnet Hung in a Hardware
Shop").
Ed Kruczynski made
his oratorio solo debut in December 2006 with the Mont Vernon (NH) Community Chorus when he sang "Every Valley Shall Be Exalted"
during two performances of Handel's Messiah.
Ed's experience as
a singer of songs from the Great American Songbook grew out of his collection of early 78 RPM records, which he started while
in high school. That means that he learned to sing jazz from the original artists of the 1920s and '30s. He especially enjoys
singing such standards as "What'll I Do?" "I'll Be Seeing You," "It's Been a Long, Long Time," and such up-tempo numbers as
"There's a Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder," "The Lady in Red," the last three of which were recorded by Al Jolson many years ago.
During 2007 Ed's solos became
so popular at the First Congregational Church in Pembroke, New Hampshire, that he was asked to sing solos in no fewer than
9 Sunday morning worship services and sang three solos ("One Hand, One Heart" from West Side Story, "Perhaps Love," and "The
Lord's Prayer") and a duet with the mother of the bride ("All I Ask of You" from Phantom of the Opera) at a recent wedding.
The most influential soloists
in Ed's life thus far have been Mario Lanza (1921-1959), Al Jolson (1886-1950), Priscilla Herdman (www.priscillaherdman.com),
and Hayley Westenra (www.hayleywestenra.com), the latter of whom was guest soloist in 9 of the concerts in which Ed sang with
the Boston Pops in December 2004. H Ed's goals include singing at many more weddings, memorial services, and benefit concerts,
as well as guest solo appearances with leading orchestras.
You'll find much more
information on Ed Kruczynski's acting and singing experience on the various pages of this website. For additional performance
photos, please visit http://www.myspace.com/edwardkruczynski
Ed thanks God for the gift
of a solo voice and is dedicated to using that gift wherever the Lord leads and as the Lord enables.
