Drake University Department of Music Virtual Master Class Featuring Rebecca Folsom and Johnathon Pape Wednesday, October 21St, 2020 Sheslow Auditorium 3:00 P.M

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Drake University Department of Music Virtual Master Class Featuring Rebecca Folsom and Johnathon Pape Wednesday, October 21St, 2020 Sheslow Auditorium 3:00 P.M Drake University Department of Music Virtual Master Class Featuring Rebecca Folsom and Johnathon Pape Wednesday, October 21st, 2020 Sheslow Auditorium 3:00 P.M. Lensky’s Aria Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky From Eugene Onegin (1841-1904) Casey Cerveny, Tenor Amelia Hammond, piano Sophie’s Aria Richard Strauss From Der Rosenkavalier (1864-1949) Lauren Carroll, soprano Amelia Hammond, piano Ah Non Credea… Ah Non Giunge Vincenzo Bellini From La Sonnambula (1801-1835) Sarah Rosales, soprano Amanda Jones, piano Měsíčku na nebi hlubokém Antonin Dvorak (Song to the Moon) (1841-1904) From Rusalka Hailey Gutowski, soprano After You Hear Me Out Tom Cipullo From Glory Denied (b. 1956) Halle Fish, soprano Amanda Jones, piano Smanie Implacabilli Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart From Cosi fan Tutte (1756-1791) Grace Graham, mezzo-soprano Amanda Jones, piano Rebecca Folsom, mezzo-soprano, has performed with the Fort Worth Opera, Utah Festival Opera, the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, and the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan. She has performed as a soloist with numerous ensembles in works such as Brahms’s Alto Rhapsody, Dvorak’s Stabat Mater, Mozart’s Requiem, and Bernstein’s Songfest. Competition credits include the Naftzger Young Artist Award and a fellowship to the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan. Folsom’s students have sung in such opera houses and festivals as Santa Fe, Wolf Trap, Glimmerglass, Dallas Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Arizona Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, Michigan Opera Theater, Los Angeles Opera, Tanglewood, Central City Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Portland Opera, and internationally at Israeli Opera, Darmstadt Opera, and theaters in Italy and Berlin. Her students have won or been finalists in competitions such as the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the Richard Tucker Award, the Oratorio Society of New York Competition, the William Matheus Sullivan awards, and the Liederkranz Foundation competition. Folsom served as staff voice teacher for the young artists programs of the Dallas Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Israeli Opera, Seagle Music Colony, Flagstaff in Fidenza, and Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival and has taught master classes both nationally and internationally, including appearances at the Hans de Roo International Conference for Young Artist Programs in Amsterdam. Her publishing credits include articles in the NATS Journal of Singing, Journal of the Society for American Music, OPERA America's online journal, and the Chinese Journal for Music Education. She has presented papers for the Society for American Music Annual Conference and the College Music Society. Folsom received her D.M.A. and M.M. in voice performance from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She maintains private studios in Boston and New York City. Johnathon Pape joined the Conservatory in the fall of 2011 and is head of opera. In addition to directing productions and providing leadership for the opera program, he teaches various courses, including Characterization and The Business of the Opera Business. Pape’s directing career spans theater, musical theater, and opera, and he has staged a wide range of productions throughout the United States and abroad. Recent work includes Eugene Onegin and Falstaff for the Seagle Music Colony, Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking for Tulsa Opera, Sweeney Todd for Tri-Cities Opera, La Fille du Régiment for Dayton Opera, and Don Giovanni, La Bohème, The Cunning Little Vixen, Die Zauberflöte, L’Italiana in Algeri, Iphigénie en Tauride, and Flight for Boston Conservatory. Career highlights include directing the world premiere of Griffelkin by Lukas Foss for New York City Opera; the U.S. premiere of Daniel Catán’s La Hija de Rappaccini for San Diego Opera; the Los Angeles premiere of Richard Greenberg’s Eastern Standard; Terrence McNally’s Master Class for Habima, the national theater of Israel; Leoš Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen and Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos for Tulsa Opera; Brian Friel’s Molly Sweeney for an Irish arts festival; the Los Angeles premiere of Shirley Lauro’s A Piece of My Heart, about the women who served in Vietnam—a special installation production mounted in the Los Angeles National Cemetery; and Janáček’s Jenůfa for Portland Opera. He has a special affinity for the Czech repertoire, having received a Fulbright research grant in opera and theater to the Czech Republic in 1994. Pape is a longstanding member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC) and the American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA), as well as a member of the Singer Training Forum for OPERA America. This event is open to all Drake students, staff and faculty. This event was made possible by donations from The Friends of Drake Arts. For more information regarding this event, contact Professor Leanne Freeman-Miller. .
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