A native of Daytona Beach Florida, Carl was a senior in the studio of Mr. Robert Swensen. As a member of Eastman Opera Theater, Carl performed as the Narrator in that season’s East and West, Elder McClean in Susannah, and he debuted as Anthony Hope in Sweeney Todd. As a concert artist he was engaged by the Bel Canto Singers to sing the bass solo in Handel�s Messiah in his native town, sang the bass solo in Christ lad in Todesbanden in Kilbourn hall, and made his concert debut as a freshman singing the bass solo to Schubert’s Mass in G with the Eastman Philharmonia.