students willhaveanadditionalfocusonoperaticarias. study artsongsinItalianandEnglish;moreadvanced students atthebeginninglevelareencouragedto Alexander Techniqueandcareerdevelopment.Vocal vocal andoperacoaching,Germanlanguagediction, and feepackage,helpwithvocalperformancepractice, range. Workshops,whichareincludedinthetuition tension release,flexibilityandexpansionofvocal breathing techniques,authenticvoiceproduction, St. PetersburgCollege.Appliedvoicelessonsaddress Classes areofferedforcreditthroughenrollmentat contentInstructional in theMusicCenter. and ariaswillbeperformthemfully-stagedonJune17th early 2016.Operastudentswillfocusonoperascenes,duets workshop classwithparticipantschosenduringauditionsin coaching. TheSummerVocalInstituteincludesanopera graduate studentswhoneedpracticalstageandperformance prep vocalstudentsaswellcollegeandsemiprofessional Now inits15thseason,theInstituteservesaspiringcollege deportment andGermanlanguagediction. movement, performancepracticeofsongsandariasstage of thesongsFranzSchubert,aswelloperaticarias,stage Franz Schubert.Emphasiswillbeplacedontheinterpretation The 2016SummerVocalInstitutesessionisentitled“TheArtof run fromMay16toJune17,2016. performances. Nowinits15thseason,the2016programwill Gibbs Campusforclasses,workshops,seminars,and utilizes thestate-of-the-artMusicCenteronSt.Petersburg/ and residentSt.PetersburgCollegevoicefaculty.TheInstitute highlighted bymasterclassesoutstandingvocalclinicians an intensivefive-weektrainingandperformanceprogram The SummerVocalInstituteatSt.PetersburgCollegeis May 16-June 17 Tuition forOperaWorkshop(MUO 2501). course:Elective Required labfees Applied Voice Tuition/fees (as electiveinadditiontovoice andbyauditiononly) ...... (223.50 for2credits;$335.253credits) 2016 SummerVocal Institute www.spcollege.edu/music $240 (MVV1011,2021-2credits) (MVV1311,1411,2321,2421) or (MVV1011,2021-1credit) ...... $111.75/credit hour $111.75 $120 Guest clinicianswillappearattheseweeklysessions. Tuesday/Thursday at2:30-4:30p.m.intheMusicCenter. voice tuition;theseclassestakeplaceonaweeklybasisof workshops andMasterclassesareincludedintheapplied voice lessonsperweekandarebyappointmentonly.Vocal Enrollment inappliedvoiceincludesone-hourofprivate (in additiontoappliedvoiceenrollment;byauditiononly) Workshop Applied VoiceforEnrichmentStudents Applied VoiceforMusicMajor Applied VoiceforVocalPerformanceMajor Course offerings invited toparticipate,asdeterminedbytheirinstructors. participate inthemasterclasses.Otherstudentsmaybe Students enrolledinMVV1311,1411,2321or2421will from FineArtsstaffinHumanities(HS)buildingroom118. are opentoallaspiringvocalstudentsbutrequiresignatures register earlytosecureaplace.Registrationandenrollment Enrollment inAppliedVoiceislimited,sostudentsshould Enrollment

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2016 Summer 2016 Summer Voice Department Marilyn Michael,SVIDirector andSPC Direction Larry Kent,OperaWorkshop Music SPC Dance Helen French, AlexanderTechnique and Theatre Department Scott Cooper, OperaWorkshop andSPC John Fiorito, May 16-June17 2016 Summer Vocal Institute May 16-June 17

John Fiorito ...... Scott Cooper ...... Larry Kent ...... Marilyn Michael ...... Metropolitan Opera St. Petersburg College Theatre Opera Workshop music director Summer Vocal Instutite baritone Department Head Dr. Larry Kent returns to the campus of St. director/Voice and opera John Fiorito’s operatic career began Scott Cooper is a full-time professor in Petersburg College where he worked as instructor with the New York City Opera. He later theatre at St. Petersburg College. He has a coach, accompanist and conductor in Dr. Marilyn Michael has served as full- became the leading baritone in the designed scenery for American Stage, the SPC Opera Workshop with Dr. Marilyn time professor and coordinator of vocal Metropolitan Opera national touring Jobsite, Gorilla, Jaeb (Straz Center for the Michael from 1997 through 2004. Dr. studies, opera workshop, and Honors company under the direction of Performing Arts), Stageworks and FreeFall Kent made his European debut in 1996, Western Humanities II at St. Petersburg Risë Stevens. His repertoire included John Fiorito theaters in the Tampa Bay area. His work Scott Cooper conducting an international cast in a rare Larry Kent Marilyn Michael Metropolitan Opera baritone Opera Workshop and SPC Opera Workshop Music College since 1994. She is the founder Summer Vocal Institute Director/ Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, has also been seen at the Goodman and Theatre Department performance of Gazzaniga’s Don Giovanni Direction and artistic director of the Summer Vocal and Opera Performance Dandini in Cenerentola, Marcello in Steppenwolf Theaters in Chicago. He has at Teatro Signorelli in Cortona, Italy. He Vocal Institute at St. Petersburg College, La Bohème and Sharpless in Madama Butterfly. In 1968 he received Creative Loafing’s Best of the Bay outstanding Scenic made his Asian debut in the Peoples Republic of China conducting which has engaged baritone Sherrill Milnes and Enrico di began his European career as leading dramatic baritone in Designer in the Tampa Bay area for 4 consecutive years and recently symphonies of Brahms and Mozart with the Xian Symphony Giuseppe from the Metropolitan Opera as guest directors. the Staedtische Buehnen of Bielefeld, Germany. Consequently received NORTON awards for best set design for AUGUST: OSAGE Orchestra. He has also served as musical director and vocal coach performances at the Wiener Staatsoper and Volksopera COUNTY at American Stage and ‘NIGHT MOTHER at Stageworks for touring production of Hänsel und Gretel for Opera Carolina in Marilyn Michael’s career was launched when she was guest followed, where he performed roles such as Michonnet in Theater. . He has been nominated twice for the Jefferson Award Charlotte, NC. alto soloist under the conductor Helmuth Rilling at the Adriana Lecouvreur. In Bielefeld, he drew critical acclaim for in Scenic Design in Chicago for his designs of BUS STOP and Bachakadamie Summer Festival in Stuttgart, Germany. Later that Dr. Kent has piano degrees from Virginia Commonwealth University season she sang four German Lieder recitals at Toynbee Hall in his Faninal in Der Rosenkavalier, Nabucco, Macbeth, Wolfram in AMERICAN BUFFALO both at American Theater Company. He is and the University of Miami, and earned a doctorate from the Tannhaueser, Telramund in Lohengrin and Nick Shadow in The otherwise kept busy by being the head of the theater department London, England. Subsequent seasons produced engagements University of South Carolina with a major in composition and a ranging from Bach to Mahler including Bach St. John Passion Rakes Progress along with other roles. for Saint Petersburg College. He is a proud member of the United minor in orchestral conducting. His doctoral dissertation included Scenic Artists Local 829. and St. Matthew Passion, Honniger’s King David, Mendelssohn’s In 1963, 1964 and 1965m he performed in the Central City the composition of a one-act opera entitled Charlotte, a tragic opera Elijah, Handel’s Messiah and Dixit Dominus, and Das Lied von Colorado summer festival in Il Trovatore, Lakmé, Manon and for four soloists and orchestra to an original by John Lawson der Erde at the Mahler Sommerfest in Kassel, Germany. the The Lady from Colorado by Ward. In 1963 he had been a Jr. While in graduate school, in addition to conducting two critically winner in the Met auditions and was awarded a cover contract Helen French ...... acclaimed performances of Charlotte, Kent also conducted full In early 1994, Marilyn Michael was invited by maestro James for that season. St. Petersburg College Dance/ productions of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale and Cimarosa’s L’impresario Levine to audition for the Metropolitan Opera. She was offered a in angustie, as well as concerts of Mozart and Barber with a chamber position on the Met roster as a mezzo- cover singer, but He made his Metropolitan Opera return debut in 1991 as Alexander Technique declined in order to return to Florida and pursue her doctoral Dulcamara in L’Elisir d’Amore, sharing the stage with Pavarotti, orchestra which he formed. Helen Hansen French (dancer, degree in education. Battle and Pons. In his 15 years at the Met, he sang a variety In addition to his opera, Dr. Kent’s compositions include an a choreographer, Alexander Technique of roles including Faninal in Der Rosenkavalier, The Marquis cappella Mass setting, a number of motets and psalm settings, as Dr. Michael has both a B.M. and M.M. Degree in vocal Teacher) received her BFA from the Juilliard in Dialogues of the Carmelites as well as La Traviata, La well as solo works, and commissioned works for church choirs – performance from the University of Kansas; a MS.Ed. degree in School and her Alexander Technique Bohème, Tosca, Ariadne auf Naxos, La Forza del Destino and children’s choir, adult choir, professional and amateur levels. Kent Post-secondary and Adult Education from Capella University, Teaching Certificate from The American Lady Macbeth. He rounded out a season with two in has participated in master classes and workshops with Peter Phillips, and a Doctorate of Education (Ed.D).degree in Curriculum Center for the Alexander Technique (ACAT) Helen French the Spoleto Festival USA with Faninal in Rosenkavalier and Alexander Technique and Stephen Paulus and Libby Larsen, and was an original member and Instruction from Argosy University/University of Sarasota in NYC. As a dancer Ms. French has been a SPC Dance Fieldmarschal in Henze’s The Prince of Homburg. of the Virginia Consort in Charlottesville, Virginia. He served as campus, with the dissertation topic of vocal pedagogy. member of Buglisi Dance Theatre serving as a Choral Scholar at Church of the Good Shepherd in Columbia, In the Washington DC opera, he performed for 6 seasons, as not only a principle dancer but also a rehearsal assistant staging and South Carolina, and currently sings and directs a great deal of The Capulet in Romeo et Juliette as well as Mr. Gobineau in The coaching BDT works throughout the world. She is also a member of chant and polyphony. Since 1998, Kent has been Music Director Medium, Alidoro in Cenerentola, The Rabbi in L’Amico Fritz and Karen Reedy Dance. Taddeo in L’Italiana in Algieri. and Conductor of Florida Pro Musica, a professional early music As an Alexander Technique teacher Ms. French has served on ensemble. He was recently elected as a Fellow of the Academy of He performed with nearly every major regional company in the faculties of the Juilliard School as a teaching assistant to Jane St. Cecilia, a London-based social and learned society dedicated the USA. Among them are Houston, Miami, Minnesota Opera, Kosminsky, led AT workshops for dance majors at George Mason to the study and performance of early music. Dr. Kent continues Michigan Opera and Milwaukee Opera, to name a few. University, and currently she teaches Alexander Technique Applied his work in the Tampa Bay area as a conductor, composer, pianist Having retired from the stage after his 15th consecutive Private Lessons at St. Petersburg College. and harpsichordist, as well as teaching and coaching singers, season at the Metropolitan Opera, his objective is to share his instrumentalists, and composers. experience as a performer and teacher with young students who seriously desire to study. He has been a member of the voice faculty of George Washington University and today he maintains a vocal studio in New York. His students are performing in companies such as the New York City Opera, Metropolitan Opera and in all the major houses in Europe.