Karl Hempel manages a busy schedule performing oratorio works, requiems, masses and opera with several Washington, DC and Baltimore area professional ensembles, including:  Washington National Cathedral Choirs, Cathedra, the Washington Bach Consort, Washington Concert Opera, District Eight and others. Receiving his Graduate Performance Diploma from Peabody Conservatory, Karl studied opera in the studio of Stanley Cornett. His operatic roles include Pistola in Verdi’s Falstaff, Bacchus in Purcell’s Masque in Dioclesian, Figaro in Mozart’s Le Nozze Di Figaro, and Luther, Crespel, and Shlemil in Offenbach’s Les Contes D’Hoffmann. A native of Cape Cod, Karl Hempel began his singing career at age 21, and has toured and studied extensively throughout Europe and Russia, singing in celebrated venues such as the Great Hall at Moscow Conservatory, Capella Hall in St. Petersburg, St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice, St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna, Tirana Opera House in Albania, St. John’s Smith Square, Westminster Abbey in London, and many other notable halls and churches canvassing the British Isles, Europe, Russia and Siberia. He has been coached and tutored extensively in vocal technique and performance style with such renowned professors as Dale Moore, Craig Timberlake, Dorothy Richardson, David Arnold, Richard Miller, William Sharp, and Louise McClelland.