Josef grew up in a musical farmers family in the Steiermark/Austria.
Later he was a professional beer brewer
and then studied medicine and singing in Graz. He specialized as general practitioner in Graz/Austria and Leoben/Austria. He studied singing at the conservatory of Graz (Mag. Schmaranz) and at the music academy of Graz (Sologesang with Prof. Suttheimer and Liedgesang with Prof. Zeller). Opera Drama classes with Prof. Pöppelreiter, contracted for Don Carlos at the Graz Opera House.
Master class student of Walter Berry, manager of the cultural platform “Die Kuppel” in the Graz country hospital from 1987 to 1991. Member of the organisation “artists make music for ill people in the Steiermark”. Regular concerts as Baritone. Then he specialized in ear nose and throat doctor in Salzburg/Austria with Prof. Albegger, later even for occupational medicine in 1996/96.
Since 1996 he is ear nose and throat doctor in Neumarkt on Wallersee/Austria and also the medical doctor of the Salzburg Music festival.
He runs memberships in several important societies around voice and music therapy and founded the Austrian Voice Institute which organises congresses and speeches internationally. His professional focus is working with voice professionals (teachers and singers etc.)
is a charismatic Reggae SingingDoc and he studied singing at the Berkley University. Now he is continuing his musical career and practises as an MD in Jamaika.
Find lots of wonderful videos on his youtube account and informations on his web page:
Mario Guthrie the medical doctor, the singer published: Monday | January 29, 2007 Tesi Johnson, Gleaner Writer
Dr. Mario Guthrie, has put his medical career on hold to attend the Berkelee College of Music to study voice performance and music business/management. – Contributed
Dr. Mario Guthrie, has done what many would consider irrational and put his medical career on hold to pursue his first passion – music.
Dr. Guthrie, in his mid-twenties, last did duties at the Bustamante Children’s Hospital as an accident and emergency/casualty officer, enrolled in berklee college of Music, Boston, Massachusetts. The largest independent music college in the world, Berklee has produced musical icons such as Quincy Jones. Earlier this month Guthrie, began studies for a joint-degree in voice performance and music business/management.
“Why would he go and do music now? His parents must be disappointed. What’s going to happen to the medicine? Will he make it anywhere?” These are questions and comments that Dr. Guthrie has had to face, since enrolling at Berklee.
However, as he describes it, “once the music bug bites you, you cannot get away from it.”
Discovering his passion
The doctor got his first taste of the stage as a tyke at Mona Preparatory School, performing with the school’s choir. He gave his first solo performance when he was 13 with the ‘Choir Boyz’, while attending Campion College.
However, it was not until a year before medical school that he really discovered his passion.
That year, he entered the realm of theatre and performed with the Jamaica Musical Theatre Company (JMTC). He performed in the production Lion King, and played ‘Daniel’ in the company’s limited production of Once on this island among others.
When he started medical school, all this musical indulgence slowed a bit, “but performing was always an itch,” he says.
Dr. Guthrie continued to perform when he could, singing with the University Singers, and alongside his peers in productions staged by his faculty.
After finishing medical school, Dr. Guthrie finally got the chance to ‘scratch his itch,’ and soon did quite a few stints performing backup for local acts like Benjy Myaz, Alaine, and even at the 2006 Air Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival, with the Rocky Five Band.
These experiences, paired with a suggestion made by his voice trainer to look into Berklee, prompted him to apply.
In early 2006, he travelled to Boston to do an audition, as part of his application, and by the end of March he had received notice that he was accepted.
Music Management
Dr. Mario Guthrie (standing) in performance at a birthday party in October 2006. – Contributed
Studying voice performance was a natural progression for this tenor. However, the good doctor also has a penchant for music management, which came to the fore after he staged his first live production.
‘Live On-stage’, Dr. Guthrie’s brainchild, for which the theme was “live music on a theatre stage,” was held in November 2006 at the Philip Sherlock Centre for the Performing Arts, UWI, Mona. The event featured acts such as Benjy Myaz, Brahyhan Art, Camar, and Elan Edwards, and was partly in aid of the Mona Rehabilitation Centre.
“Ideally, I’d like to become a recording artiste, but I’m keeping my scope open, in case that doesn’t happen,” he says.
Not quitting
Despite this new course, Dr. Guthrie asserts, “I am not quitting medicine. I am basically putting my first passion first,” he continues, a choice which many parents would certainly disdain.
His parents, Mrs. Marguerite and Dr. Wendel Guthrie, are actually quite supportive, as described by young Dr. Guthrie.
“Parents often have their own ideals for their children but mine supports me,” he says. This support is manifested in their partly funding his musical studies.
Influences
The Guthrie family has generally been a rock for young Mario, who credits his older brother, Wayne, for being his greatest influence.
“When I was younger I didn’t listen to a lot of music,” Dr. Guthrie explains. “It was my brother [Wayne] who listened to a lot of music” and this was the catalyst that jump-started Mario’s love for performing.
Wayne Guthrie enjoys music by working as a disc jockey outside of his ‘nine to five.’
“Wherever I go I will take him with me, and he’ll do the same for me,” explains Mario.
For now, Dr. Guthrie will be focusing on excelling in his musical discipline, in a bid to one day become a successful recording artiste, and still practice medicine.
For this Dr. Guthrie can count on always being dubbed ‘the singing doc’, though he tries fervently to separate the two.
Gynecologist Dr Wendel Guthrie (centre), and his sons, Wayne (left) and Mario (right). We love our dad because…..he is one of the kindest, smartest and practical men we know, and he has been an excellent, supportive and cool dad. He is a shining of example of a gentleman, a realist and everything we believe a man should be. We wish him the most amazing Father’s Day this year and for years to come.”
He had been working at the Eulen-Apotheke in Würzburg with pharmacist Rolf E. Schindler who is presented under BalloonDocs
“Paraderolle”: Osmin
Apart from his singing studies at the music academy of Frankfurt/Germany he studied pharmacy at the university of Heidelberg. He was engaged as soloist at the Mainfranken-Theater in Würzburg/Germany and performed also at opera houses in Bayreuth, Frankfurt, Dortmund and preferrably in France.
Mephisto
Since 2001 he is soloist at the Saarland State Theatre in Saarbrücken, some years later became free-lance singer.
If he does not sing Sarastro, Osmin or Mephisto on stage he dedicates himself to many different music styles. Beside french, italian, hebrew, northamerican or latin american music his favourite music is russian folk music and classic.
Kamila Dudova was born in the Czech Republic and has grown up there.
From age 17 she has been singing, studied at the music academy of Cologne and has participated in numerous master-classes as with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Grace Bumbry. Besides she studied medicine in Bonn and is now practising as psychotherapist in the Swiss cantone Zug.
She has won several prizes. Performances in Münster Bern, French Church Bern, COlogne Dome, Münster Bonn, Gasteig Centre Munich, Prague Dome, Mozarteum Salzburg.
Holistic psychologist and psycho-therapist since 1987. Her professional activity is complemented by her teaching kundalini yoga and meditation for a better life quality.
I am not a movie expert, but I am a movie lover. Since I was a child, movies had a strong impact on me: I identified with movie heroes and gained strength and courage that way, or I learned to understand my inner world through understanding my emotional reactions to movie scenes or characters. I experienced catharsis through movies too. For example when I had a life-threatening stroke, I became physically and emotionally paralyzed and could not even cry. I noticed with surprise that I started crying uncontrollably whenever I saw films that showed characters in tragic experiences. All the blocked up tears began flowing in response to watching the characters’ pain. About five years ago I visited a workshop called “Movies and Mythic Imagination – Using Films in Depth Psychology”. I became fascinated with the idea of using movies with my clients to understand their emotional issues and to support their process. Now I use Cinema Alchemy my writing, in my practice with individual clients, couples, in a weekly Cinema Alchemy group, and in workshops. I have amazing success with this method. Therefore I am very passionate about teaching it.
Knut Höhler, born in 1983 is extreme sportsman. Living in Göttingen/Germany he was European Champion with Triathlon in the Junior ranking. He is member of the team LG Olympia Dortmund, his best time for 42,195 km is 2 hrs and 36 min. His preference is though extraordinary obstacle runs as Fisherman’s Friends Strongman Run in Weeze which he won 2011 as first stranger. He won the “Tough Guy Challenge a second time (12 km with 21 obstacles)!
