RECENT YOUNG ARTIST WINNERS 1997 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1979 Portland, Oregon PIANO: Marina Lomazov, NY PIANO: Robert James McDonald, NY VIOLIN: Linda Wang, NY CELLO: Chri stopher Rex, PA WOMAN’S VOICE: Mary Kania, PA WOMAN’S VOICE: Jmel Wilson, TX MAN’S VOICE: Kenneth Robertson, IL MAN’S VOICE: Jonathan Mack, CA ELLIS PIANO DUO: Beatrice and Christina Long, Taiw an 1981 Birmingham, Alabama VIOLIN: Ralph Evans, NY 1999 St. Louis, Missouri WOMAN’S VOICE: PIANO: Inna Faliks, MD Brenda Rucker-Smith, OH CELLIST: Clancy Newman, NY MAN’S VOICE: Gary Lakes, WA WOMAN’S VOICE: Mary Wilson, NATIONAL FEDERATION OF MAN’S VOICE: Daniel Weeks, KY 1983 Columbus, Ohio ELLIS DUO PIANO: PIANO: David Allen Wehr, CA Amy and Sara Hamann, MN MUSIC CLUBS VIOLIN: Ming-Feng Hsin, PA MAN’S VOICE: Richard Lalli, CT 2001 Atlanta Georgia Presents PIANO: David Shimoni, NY 1985 Wichita, Kansas VIOLIN: Carrie Kennedy, C A PIANO: Jody (Gelbogis) DeSalvo, CT WOMAN’S VOICE: Donna Zapola, PA 2003 Nashville, Tennessee MAN’S VOICE: William Doyle Riley, NJ PIANO: Zarina Melik -Stepanova, NY VIOLIN: Christina Castelli, NY 1987 Miami, Florida WOMAN’S VOICE: Amy Grable MO PIANO: Thomas Otten, CA MAN’S VOICE: Woodrow Bynum ,AR VIOLIN: Michael Ludwig,PA ELLIS DUO PIANO: Roo Duo: WOMAN’S VOICE: Kitt Foss, WI Janet Fetterman and Nathan Smith, MO MAN’S VOICE: John M. Koch, OH 2005 Austin, Texas 1989 Fort Worth, Texas PIANO: Dr. Christopher Atzinger, MI WOMAN’S VOICE: Mela Dailey, TX PIANO: Andrew Cooperstock, AR ELLIS DUO PIANO: Pas DeDuo: VIOLIN: Alexander Kerr, VA Naomi Sanchez- Stephen Varney, CA WOMAN’S VOICE: Linda Keith, OH 2007 Salt Lake City, Utah 1991 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania PIANO: Nathan Knutson, MN PIANO: Richard Glazier, IN VIOLIN: Joo Young Oh, NY CELLO: Zuill Bailey, VA WOMAN’S VOICE:Rayanne Gonzales, VA MAN’S VOICE: Steven R ushing, LA MAN’S VOICE: Jesse Blumber g,OH ELLIS PIANO DUO: Thomas Hecht and Sandra Shapiro, OH 2009 Orlando Florida PIANO: James Cockman III, KS CELLO: Angela Park, P A 1993 Buffalo, New York WOMAN’S VOICE : Kay Welch, IL PIANO: Andrew Armstrong, CT MAN’S VOICE Daniel Seigel, AL VIOLIN: Emil Israel Chudnovsky, NY DUO PIANISTS: 88 Squared: WOMAN’S VOICE: Lorie Gratis, PA Drs Jeffrey and Karen Savage, W A MAN’S VOICE: Anthony Turner, OH 2011 McLean Virginia 1995 Wichita, Kansas PIANO: Kwan Yi, MD PIANO: Mia Kim, NY CELLO: Matthew Allen, OH Courtney Miller WOMAN’S VOICE: Maria McDaniel, GA WOMAN’S VOICE: Jane Ohmes, MO MAN’S VOICE: Nicholas Pallesen, VA Mezzo-Soprano MAN’S VOICE: Allen Henderson, TN

Selected Repertoire Concert Repe rtoire NATIONAL FEDERATION OF MUSIC CLUBS Presents Adamo Berg Courtney Miller Little Women Sieben frühe Lieder 2013 Young Artist Mezzo-Soprano Winner

Bach Canteloube Mass in C Minor Chants d’Auvergne (selections) Award winning Mezzo-Soprano Courtney Miller will be joining Virginia for their 2013-14 season. There, she will sing Meg Page in Falstaff, Third Lady in The Magic Bellini Dowland Flute, Mercédès in while covering Carmen, Dryade in while I Capuleti e i Montecchi Two Dowland Laments covering the Komponist, and covering the Beggar Woman in Sweeney Todd. In the arr. David Bruce spring of 2013 Ms. Miller sang the role of Sister Helen in the New England premier of Bizet Dead Man Walking. After a successful summer with Chautauqua Opera in 2011, Ms. Carmen Hadyn Miller returned as an Apprentice Artist in 2012. She sang the roles of Alisa in Lucia di

Arianna a Naxos Lammermoor as well as in multiple concerts with the Chautauqua Symphony. Britten

Albert Herring The winner of the National Federation of Music Clubs' 2013 Young Artist Competition in Prokofiev Women's Voice, in 2013 Ms. Miller also won first place in the American Prize Art Song The Ugly Duckling Donizetti Competition and third place in the Classical Singer Young Artist Competition. She has

Lucia di Lammermoor been a New England Regional Finalist in the Auditions and is a Ravel current Career Bridges Encouragement Grant recipient. Ms. Miller is an avid recitalist Heggie Shéhérazade and has been praised for "possessing a delicacy and diction very appealing, and the

Dead Man Walking strength to bring it home" (The Chautauquan Daily). Concert credits include the alto Schumann soloist in Hadyn's Schöpfungsmesse with the Concord Chorale, Bach's Mass in C Minor Humperdinck Frauenliebe und leben Alto Soloist with The Boston Conservatory, and Two Dowland Laments with Hemenway

Hansel and Gretel Strings. Various Musical Theater, Gilbert & Hadyn Sullivan, and Cabaret repertoire Ms. Miller starred in a Ravel double-bill as the title role in L'enfant et les sortilèges and Schöpfungsmesse including William Bolcom, Kern, Concepción in L'heure Espagnole. Susan Miron of The Arts Fuse wrote, “The role of

Lerner & Loewe, Porter, Rodgers Concepción is a marvelous piece of work, seemingly made to be sung by Courtney Menottichi & Hammerstein, and Sondheim. Miller, who was hilarious fanning herself while keeping three men on her seductive string The Consul as her husband was out regulating the municipal clocks.” Additional career highlights include Romeo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi, the Witch in Hansel and Gretel, Nancy in Mozart Albert Herring, and the title role in Iolanthe. Ms. Miller was applauded for her Le nozze di Figaro interpretation of Iolanthe: "Simply stunning. Beautiful voice, tall, willowy frame, The Magic Flute exceptional dramatic abilities, pretty looks - she had it all. She has sung with Boston Così fan tutte Lyric Opera, Ohio Light Opera, Seagle Music Colony, and Juventas New Music Ensemble. A Wisconsin native, Ms. Miller holds degrees from the University of Ravel Michigan and the Boston Conservatory. L’enfant et les sortilèges L’heure espagnole

Strauss Der Rosenkavalier National Federation of Music Clubs Presentation Chair Ariadne auf Naxos Sharon Wesbrook 928 Longview Lane Verdi Detroit Lakes, Minnesota 56501 Falstaff (218) 844-6009 Rigoletto [email protected]