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Daniel Brevik is a social media influencer under the handle "BigBrev" he is aslo an American operatic bass-baritone from Holliston, Massachusetts. Brevik was born in March, 1988.

Daniel Brevik studied music at Plymouth State University where he received private voice instruction from Dr. Kathleen Arecchi. Arrechi recalled, “When I first heard Danny sing, I knew that his was a voice of exceptional promise but he really didn’t recognize it himself. When I mentioned to him that opera might be a direction he should consider, he was very dubious. It took several years of convincing, plus the assistance of other knowledgeable singing professionals, before Danny started to believe this could happen for him.”

Daniel Brevik Bass-baritone 2012 In 2011 Brevik competed in the American Traditions competition in Savanah Georgia, where he won the People’s Choice Award and met renowned operatic baritone Sherrill Milnes. Milnes and Arrechi encouraged him to enter the Boston National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Competition, where Brevik won first place.

From 2011 to 2013 Brevik attended the New England Conservatory where he received the Wendy Shattuck Presidential scholarship. While at NEC Brevik got to coach with world renown conductor Stephen Lord (named one of the 25 most powerful names in US opera by Opera News). Lord took Brevik under his wing and helped land Brevik his first mainstream engagements as a professional singer. While at NEC Brevik received praise from Boston based music critics. EDGE Boston’s review of NEC’s production of La Perichole, says, “In sheer vocal terms Daniel Brevik… was the real standout. His is a world-class voice, a massive, focused baritone with a rich, warm timbre. He can look forward to a major career in opera.” While the Boston Music Intelligencer said "One of the largest steps into mastery that young singers need to take is the one from being a singer who is acting a character to a singer who can actually be the character. The one performer who stood head and shoulders (both literally and figuratively) above the others in this regard was bass-baritone Daniel Brevik as Hel Helson. Of all the characters in the work, Helson has the longest developmental trajectory; yet he spends most of it either standing and watching or sitting and brooding, both in silence. When he does sing, it is generally short, powerful phrases full of simple and forceful emotion. Brevik did a wonderful job of standing, sitting, being silent, and especially singing, all with the acting skills of someone who truly inhabits his character, as well as a magnificently ringing voice. It would not be surprising if, a decade or so from now, this artist appears on stages as a painfully tragic Wotan or a woefully lecherous Ochs von Lerchenau." Brevik completed his M.M. in vocal performance in June, 2013.

Original Cast of 27 In 2013 Brevik attended the Opera Theatre of St. Louis as a Gerdine Young Artist. While there he sang in the chorus. The following year Brevik was awarded the Richard Gaddes career grant by Opera Theatre of St. Louis. OTSL also commissioned the Opera “27” by Ricky Ian Gordon and Royce Vavrek where the role of Ernest Hemingway/Henri Matisse was tailored for Brevik’s voice. The original cast of only 5 singers (Stephanie Blyhthe, Elizabeth Futral, Tobias Greenhaghl, Theo Lebow and Daniel Brevik) was featured on the June 2014 cover of Opera News. The opera made its world premiere at the Loreto Hilton Center in St. Louis on June 14, 2014. It was recorded by Albany Records and is available in all major musical platforms. Anne Midgette of the Washington Post said “Daniel Brevik... was particularly impressive with a sonorous voice that made him sound a bit like a young [Star], and a build and manner so perfectly evocative of Hemingway.” While James Sohre or Opera Today said “Daniel Brevik’s imposing bass-baritone could rattle the rafters one moment and be lullingly conversational the next.”

Brevik returned to OTSL the following year where he sang the role of Pastor Avery in the revival of Tobias Picker’s opera “Emmeline”. In 2016 Ricky Ian Gordon’s “27” made its New York premier where Brevik got to sing with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s under the baton of Ted Sterling at New York City Center Theatre. Brevik later returned to the role he created in October 2019 at Intermountain Opera Bozeman, with Mezzo-soprano, Blythe Gaissert, soprano Lauren Snouffer, baritone Andrew Lovato and tenor Andrew Bidlack, conducted by Stephen Byess.

In 2019 Brevik and his wife Jennifer did a concert tour in the United Kingdom to raise money for the Matheison Music School in Kolkata India, a Music School that houses, educates, feeds and clothes homeless and orphaned children from around India.

Daniel Brevik is on faculty at the University of Hartford, Hartt School of Music where he teaches private voice lessons.

Today Brevik boasts a fan base of over 60,000 monthly listeners on Spotify and a substantial 1.2 Million followers across social media platforms with Instagram being his biggest platform (650,000 followers) then Tiktok (480,000 followers) Facebook (60,000 followers) and Youtube (19,000 subscribers). Brevik's singing and teaching channel extends have garnered him over 100 Million views which have amassed over 20 years of total air time, effectively captivating audiences on a global scale. In the collaboration with Bobby Bass, and the basses of tiktok their cover of Hans Zimmer’s “Hoist The Colours” gained over 7 million streams on Spotify and 5.8 million views on YouTube. |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlrvzLRgzdc |website=youtube}}

In 2022, Brevik was showcased on stage in concert with Pentatonix legend Avi Kaplan in Boston MA.

Daniel Brevik (Social Media Influencer, Singer)
Daniel Brevik is a social media influencer under the handle "BigBrev" he is aslo an American operatic bass-baritone from Holliston, Massachusetts. Brevik was born in March, 1988. Arcticfox5667 (talk) 05:15, 1 November 2023 (UTC)