Concerts and Master Classes June 30-July 19, 2014
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Concerts and Master Classes June 30-July 19, 2014 1 About the Program In its ninth year, Westminster’s CoOPERAtive Program provides three weeks of intensive opera training for young singers. The program is presented in cooperation and consultation with professionals in the field of opera and is designed to help young singers prepare for the essential next step toward acceptance into an advanced young artist or summer apprentice program. The CoOPERAtive offers three levels of training: 1. CoOPERAtive Fellows - singers who are either current graduate students or post graduates, working toward a professional singing career. 2. CoOPERAtive Young Artists - singers who are current undergraduates in music conservatories around the country, who are preparing for graduate school. 3. CoOPERAtive Pianists - pianists who are working toward careers as coaches and conductors in opera and art song. CoOPERAtive is designed to assess the strengths of all participants, nurture their talents and assist in their skill development. Participants receive private coaching focusing on operatic style, performance techniques, dramatic presentation, language and diction, and body awareness, as well as résumé and application advice. CoOPERAtive features unique auditions in which singers are evaluated by professionals in the field of opera – advisors involved with regional opera and/or young artist programs. With their guidance, the program is customized to each singer’s needs to help improve his or her skills. Graduates of the program have been finalists in the Metropolitan Opera Council’s National Auditions and have gone on to work with opera companies throughout the United States. The public is welcome to attend master classes and concerts presented by participants at no charge. This is a great opportunity to see and hear the opera stars of tomorrow! The CoOPERAtive Program would like to thank the following people and organizations for providing generous scholarships: J. Truman Bidwell Albert M. Klein Humphrey Chang Robert and Anne McMahan Dow Jones and Company Princeton Friends of Opera ExxonMobil Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Rice Saverio G. Greco Sundaresa Srinivasan Katherine Bidwell Foundation for Young Singers Cestone Foundation We wish to thank the following people for providing patron housing for some of our singers and faculty: Micaela de Lignerolles • Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Reed • Lois Laverty • Charlotte Danielson 2 Young Artists REBECCA ACHTENBERG MATTHEW COULES Soprano, CoOPERAtive Young Artist Tenor, CoOPERAtive Young Artist is is a senior double-degree student at a recent graduate of Westminster Choir Oberlin Conservatory studying voice College where he received a Bachelor under Timothy LeFebvre. This year she of Music in Voice Performance. He performed with Oberlin Opera Theater has performed in Les contes d'Hoffman in Hänsel und Gretel (Das Taumännchen) (The Servants cover) with Westminster and in scenes from Il Filosofo di Campagna (Lesbina). Opera Theatre; scenes from Cosi fan tutte (Ferrando) This winter she appeared in the world premiere of NOVA and Le Nozze di Figaro (Don Basilio) with Westminster with Real Time Opera at the Cleveland Public Theater. Opera Workshop; Sweeney Todd (Sweeney Todd) and Le Last summer she attended the Opera Institute of California Nozze di Figaro (chorus) with the Atlantic Coast Opera and performed in Il Giasone (Alinda), Le Nozze di Figaro Festival. Mr. Coules was also a member of the Grammy- (Barbarina) and Daphnis et Chloé (Amalthea), and in scenes nominated Westminster Williamson Voices, conducted from Orfeo ed Euridice (Euridice). Next fall she will perform by James Jordan. Currently, he is auditioning for some of in Street Scene (Nursemaid 1) with Oberlin Opera Theater. the military’s premier choirs. Mr. Coules is a student of Margaret Cusack and coaches with Akiko Hosaki. DANE ALLISON Tenor, CoOPERAtive Young Artist is a AMANDA GRAFTON recent graduate of Lawrence University Soprano, CoOPERAtive Young Artist, where he studied vocal performance a recent graduate from The Manhattan with Karen Leigh-Post. His recent School of Music and student of Catherine performances include Britten’s Albert Malfitano, is an enthusiastic participant Herring (The Mayor) and Smetana’sThe of the 2014 CoOPERAtive Program. A Bartered Bride (Principal Comedian), both with Lawrence native of Maplewood, N.J., and a New University Opera. Upcoming engagements include a York resident, Ms. Grafton will remain in New York City production of Speed Dating Tonight! with Poor Richard's in the upcoming year and participate in The Magic Circle Opera, which will be featured as part of the Philadelphia Opera Repertory Ensemble's Opera and Training Program. Fringe Arts festival. A current resident of Woodlyn, Pa., With The Magic Circle, Ms. Grafton will perform Francis he plans to pursue a graduate degree in the near future. Poulenc's La Voix Humaine and in a recital featuring the compositions of Tom Cipullo, coached by Mr. Cipullo ISABEL BLOCK and Paul Sperry. At The Manhattan School of Music, Soprano, CoOPERAtive Young Artist Ms. Grafton performed in Francesco Cavalli's La Doriclea is a native of the San Francisco Bay (Venere), as well as in scenes from Robert Wand's The Area. Recently, she performed in Crucible (Abigal), Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier (Sophie) and Milton Granger’s one-act opera Angry Massenet's Manon (Manon). Birdsong (Dulcine) with the Oberlin Opera Theater. She also performed ANDREW GROBLE in the Oberlin Opera Scenes Program, performing in Baritone, CoOPERAtive Young Artist, excerpts from Wolf-Ferrari’s Le donne curiose (Rosaura) a native of Whitefish Bay, Wis., is a fifth- and Cavalli’s L’Egisto (Fedra). In the fall, Ms. Block will year double-degree student of Timothy return to Oberlin to perform in Kurt Weill’s Street Scene (Joe). Lefebvre's at the Oberlin Conservatory of She has performed with choirs across the country, from the Music, majoring in Vocal Performance and Marin Symphony Youth Chorus to the Oberlin College Choir. German Studies. Mr. Groble has appeared In 2010, she attended the Boston University Tanglewood with the Oberlin Opera Theater inA Wedding (Bartender), The Institute in Lenox, Mass. Ms. Block is a rising senior at Oberlin Bartered Bride (chorus) and La Clemenza di Tito (chorus), as well Conservatory, where she studies with Marlene Rosen. as in Oberlin in Italy's production of L'Elisir d'Amore (chorus). Previously with the Oberlin Theater Department, he performed in 3 Young Artists The New Electric Ballroom (Patsy), Dancing at Lughnasa (Jack) and chorus of Opera Delaware in John Davies’ children's outreach Twelfth Night (Malvolio). production of The Three Little Pigs (Cherubino Pig). ERICA INTILANGELO JOSEPH MAZZARA Baritone, CoOPERAtive Young Artist, a Soprano, CoOPERAtive Young Artist has native of Alexandria, Va., is a rising senior recently performed in Mozart’s Il re pastore Vocal Performance major attending (Aminta) with the Undergraduate Opera James Madison University (JMU). Mr. Theatre at Westminster Choir College. Mazzara currently studies in the studio of With Westminster Opera Theatre, she Kevin McMillan. At JMU, he has been has performed in Puccini’s Gianni Schicci an active participant in the JMU Opera (Lauretta cover) and Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte(Pamina Theater where he has played a variety of roles ranging from cover). She recently graduated from Westminster with a Gilbert and Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore (Dick Deadeye) to Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (Monostatos). Mr. Mazzara Bachelor of Music under the tutelage of Sally Wolf. In has also been a member of the JMU Choral Department the fall, she will attend University of Cincinnati’s College- taking part in The James Madison Singers, where he Conservatory of Music to obtain her Master of Music in has had the opportunity to perform at numerous venues Vocal Performance under the tutelage of William McGraw. including the Piccolo Spoleto Music Festival in Charleston, S.C. He placed first in multiple National Association of LAURA KOSER Teachers of Singing Competitions. This summer he will be Soprano, CoOPERAtive Young Artist competing in the national semi-finals in the men’s collegiate completed her junior year studying category taking place in Boston. music education at the University of Delaware (UD). She is active in UD HEIDI MIDDENDORF Opera Theater, having performed in Soprano, CoOPERAtive Young Artist is La Bohème (Musetta) and Suor Angelica a rising senior at Oberlin Conservatory (Suor Genovieffa). She is also a member of Music and has studied with Louise of the University of Delaware Chorale, having toured in Lawrence and Marlene Rosen. Ms. Provence, France, and Dallas, Texas; and the Collegium Middendorf has appeared in master Musicum, recently performing in Carissimi’s oratorio classes with Marilyn Mims, Piergiorgio Historie di Jephte (Filia). Ms. Kosar is also active in the Del Nunzio, Ellen Hargis and Lisa Wilmington music scene. She frequently solos with the Saffer. She was honored to be part of the 2014 Marilyn Mastersingers of Wilmington, with whom she will sing the Horne residency, where she received a master class with soprano solo of Poulenc’s Gloria in the fall. She also participates Ms. Horne. She performed Debussy’s Quatre Chansons de in Opera Delaware, where she will perform in a children's Jeunesse in Oberlin Conservatory of Music’s Dannenberg outreach production of The Three Little Pigs (Despina-Pig), with Recital in February 2014. She has performed in the music by Mozart. She plans to student teach next spring and ensemble of Oberlin Opera Theater productions, audition for graduate programs in voice performance. including Ravel’s L'enfant et les sortilèges and Strauss’ Die Fledermaus. Recently, Ms. Middendorf debuted at DANA MACINTOSH Oberlin in Albert Herring (Ms. Wordsworth). Other Soprano, CoOPERAtive Young Artist opera scene performances include Mitridate, rè di Ponto is a rising senior Vocal Performance (Sifare), Le donne curiose (Colombina), Don Pasquale major at the University of Delaware. In (Norina) and Il matrimonio segreto (Carolina). addition to the CoOPERAtive Program, she recently attended the Young Artist RACHEL OZOLS Program Songfest at Colburn.