Education
He later studied a variety of classical instruments, including lute, sitar and surbahar, financing his studies by writing popular songs.
He later studied a variety of classical instruments, including lute, sitar and surbahar, financing his studies by writing popular songs.
He began performing at age six in the children"s choir of the Canadian Opera Company. Several of his songs were recorded by Anne Murray, for whom he also performed as a backing vocalist. In 1987, he premiered a one-man theatrical show in which he portrayed Noël Coward, mixing a dramatic monologue with performances of Coward"s songs.
He toured the show across Canada several times over the next number of years, as well as creating and performing several other musical revue shows, including From Irving Berlin to Gilles Vigneault, a show based on the biblical Song of Songs and New York-Paris, a Musical Voyage.
In 1994, he also appeared as Duncan in a production of Wendy Wasserstein"s play The Sisters Rosensweig. Pringle released a compilation album,, in 1996, and then retired from recording or performing popular music
By 1998, Pringle began to reemerge as a theremin player. He has released two independent albums of theremin music, has performed on the instrument both in solo shows and with the Montreal Chamber Orchestra, and has released a number of YouTube videos of his performances of both classical and modern pieces on the instrument.