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2016 Summer Vocal Institute 2016 Summer May 16-June 17 Enrollment The Summer Vocal Institute at St. Petersburg College is Enrollment in Applied Voice is limited, so students should an intensive five-week training and performance program register early to secure a place. Registration and enrollment Vocal Institute highlighted by master classes by outstanding vocal clinicians are open to all aspiring vocal students but require signatures and resident St. Petersburg College voice faculty. The Institute from Fine Arts staff in Humanities (HS) building room 118. The Art of Franz Schubert utilizes the state-of-the-art Music Center on the St. Petersburg/ MVV1411 and 2421 are 3-credit applied voice lessons for Gibbs Campus for classes, workshops, seminars, and vocal performance majors. performances. Now in its 15th season, the 2016 program will May 16-June 17 run from May 16 to June17, 2016. MVV 1311 and 2321 are 2-credit applied voice lessons for The 2016 Summer Vocal Institute session is entitled “The Art of music majors. Franz Schubert. Emphasis will be placed on the interpretation MVV 1011 and 2021 are for vocal enrichment students. Guest clinicians: of the songs of Franz Schubert, as well as operatic arias, stage movement, performance practice of songs and arias and stage Students enrolled in MVV 1311, 1411, 2321 or 2421 will John Fiorito, Metropolitan Opera deportment and German language diction. participate in the master classes. Other students may be baritone Now in its 15th season, the Institute serves aspiring college invited to participate, as determined by their instructors. prep vocal students as well as college and semiprofessional Scott Cooper, Opera Workshop and SPC graduate students who need practical stage and performance Theatre Department coaching. The Summer Vocal Institute includes an opera Course offerings workshop class with participants chosen during auditions in Applied Voice for Vocal Performance Major (3 credits) Helen French, Alexander Technique and early 2016. Opera students will focus on opera scenes, duets MVV 1411 Michael SPC Dance and arias and will be perform them fully-staged on June 17th MVV 2421 Michael in the Music Center. Larry Kent, Opera Workshop Music Applied Voice for Music Major (2 credits) Direction MVV 1311 Michael Instructional content MVV 2321 Michael Marilyn Michael, SVI Director and SPC Classes are offered for credit through enrollment at Voice Department St. Petersburg College. Applied voice lessons address Applied Voice for Enrichment Students (1 or 2 credits) breathing techniques, authentic voice production, MVV 1011 Michael tension release, flexibility and expansion of vocal MVV 2021 Michael range. Workshops, which are included in the tuition and fee package, help with vocal performance practice, Opera Workshop (1 credit) vocal and opera coaching, German language diction, (in addition to applied voice enrollment; by audition only) Alexander Technique and career development. Vocal MUO 2501 Cooper students at the beginning level are encouraged to study art songs in Italian and English; more advanced Enrollment in applied voice includes one-hour of private students will have an additional focus on operatic arias. voice lessons per week and are by appointment only. Vocal workshops and Master classes are included in the applied voice tuition; these classes take place on a weekly basis of Tuesday/Thursday at 2:30-4:30 p.m. in the Music Center. Tuition/fees Guest clinicians will appear at these weekly sessions. FINE AND APPLIED ARTS – ST PETERSBURG/GIBBS CAMPUS ST PETERSBURG COLLEGE 13489 PO BOX ST PETERSBURG FL 33733-3489 Applied Voice .................................................... $111.75/credit hour (223.50 for 2 credits; $335.25 for 3 credits) Required lab fees .........................................................................$120 (MVV 1311, 1411, 2321, 2421) limited. limited. or (MVV 1011, 2021-1credit) $240 (MVV 1011, 2021-2credits) www.spcollege.edu/music | 727-341-4679 Elective course: Tuition for Opera Workshop (MUO 2501). ......................$111.75 St. Petersburg College Enrollment is Enrollment Arts Office the Humanities and Fine in HS 118 Visit register. to Campus Petersburg/Gibbs the St. at (as elective in addition to voice and by audition only) Music Center Register now now Register St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus www.spcollege.edu/music | 727-341-4679 St. Petersburg College is an Equal Access/Equal Opportunity institution. 2016 Summer Vocal Institute 2016 Summer Vocal Classes May 16-June 17 15-1057B-12 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 tenor 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 libretto 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-soprano cover singer, but He made his Metropolitan Opera return debut in 1991 as Alexander Technique declined